Pretty bad
Added 10/18/2005
I'm always looking for a good haunted house/ghost flick, and I have to say I haven't seen a good new one in years. Instead of something new, here we have a movie that borrows aspects and ideas from a bunch of other haunted house/horror flicks and combines them into one... making this very unoriginal and very dull. Watch The Shining, Poltergeist, The Changeling, Amityville Horror, and others instead of watching this rip off flick.
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High-Quality Horror/Suspense In The Veins Of "Amityville" And "Sixth Sense"
Added 8/19/2005
A couple grieving the loss of their recently deceased child move into an old house in the countryside to try and recover and begin living again in this under-rated mystery/horror movie. Upon arriving the wife of the couple (Amanda Plummer; Sean Pewtree plays her husband) begins receiving 'messages' that her days are numbered, with the first one indicating she has one week of life left (hence the title), the following day's indicating six days to live, and so on. No one else is able to perceive these 'messages' or find any evidence of them, raising the possibility of whether this is all in the traumatized mother's head. Solid acting, a storyline that isn't easy to predict, and good atmosphere make this a high-caliber fright, recommended for fans of "The Amityville Horror", "Haunted" (1995 with Kate Beckinsale), "Witchboard", "The Sixth Sense" and "The Devil's Backbone".
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1.5 STARS: This is a tired script.
Added 7/4/2005
One cannot help but notice after watching "7 Days To Live" that the script has run its course. In this movie, the acting is slightly below average although not terrible, but coupled with the fact that this is a very tired script inferior in every way to its predecessors, "7 Days To Live" simply is not a very good movie.
There are some creepy moments, but after seeing "The Shining", "Poltergeist" and "The Ring" ("The Ring" may have been made after this movie, but "Ringu" was made prior to both" which are all superior to this movie, "7 Days To Live" comes across rather boring and lacking in substance and style. There is no question that "7 Days To Live" borrows significantly from the abovementioned movies, but if one is going to try and make a movie like this, the acting and directing must be exceptional and the script must have a charm of its own of some sort which separates it from movies that went before it...such is not the case here. The result is a movie which is largely ineffective and downright boring as a horror movie.
I generously give "7 Days To Live" 1.5 STARS for effort, but the bottom line is that you cannot make a movie like this with average to slightly below average acting, a generic script and average directing and still expect the movie to be an effective horror movie because there are just too many other movies like this that are of a better quality.
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7 Days of HATE
Added 6/29/2005
Look, I think the person who gave this movie 5 stars must be under the age of 12. This is not a scary movie - no matter how you look at it. The other reviewers are absolutely correct in saying that this is trying to be a cheap, boring version of Stephen King's "The Shining"...and let's face it, the director of 7 Days to Live is no Stanley Krubrick - not even close! The script is poorly written, the plot is cheesy and needs severe tightening and the acting, though not terrible, is not very good. Don't waste your money. I only spent about six bucks on this movie and regret every dollar of it.
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Unexplained phenomena.
Added 2/23/2004
The worst thing about this straight to video snoozer is that the titular dilemma is never explained. 7 DAYS TO LIVE isn't very scary either and suffers greatly from a poor script. After a somewhat decent set up involving the tragicly gruesome death of their son, Helen (PLUMMER) and Martin (PERTWEE) Shaw move to the country into a house that upon physical appearance is blatantly haunted. The reasoning for the house being haunted is because construction companies can't seem to stop building houses on the mass graves of the restless dead, or so it is in moviedom anyway. Needless to say "spooky" stuff starts happening and the film goes downhill from there. Helen begins witnessing what she thinks is a seven day countdown to her demise, but why the haunters would do this is never expained, instead we are given a SHINING like mad husband scenario that plays out like the cheaply made flick this is. The special fx at the end are really bad as well, reminding the viewer that some low budget films can be inventive, and this isn't one of them. By the end of the film nothing is given substantial closure or reason. Not as creepy as a lot of reviews have stated, and if you are a fan of psycological horror this film will not satisfy your appetite the way movies like THE RING or THE SHINING do. Below average haunted house schlock.
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Pretty bad
Added 10/18/2005
I'm always looking for a good haunted house/ghost flick, and I have to say I haven't seen a good new one in years. Instead of something new, here we have a movie that borrows aspects and ideas from a bunch of other haunted house/horror flicks and combines them into one... making this very unoriginal and very dull. Watch The Shining, Poltergeist, The Changeling, Amityville Horror, and others instead of watching this rip off flick.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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High-Quality Horror/Suspense In The Veins Of "Amityville" And "Sixth Sense"
Added 8/19/2005
A couple grieving the loss of their recently deceased child move into an old house in the countryside to try and recover and begin living again in this under-rated mystery/horror movie. Upon arriving the wife of the couple (Amanda Plummer; Sean Pewtree plays her husband) begins receiving 'messages' that her days are numbered, with the first one indicating she has one week of life left (hence the title), the following day's indicating six days to live, and so on. No one else is able to perceive these 'messages' or find any evidence of them, raising the possibility of whether this is all in the traumatized mother's head. Solid acting, a storyline that isn't easy to predict, and good atmosphere make this a high-caliber fright, recommended for fans of "The Amityville Horror", "Haunted" (1995 with Kate Beckinsale), "Witchboard", "The Sixth Sense" and "The Devil's Backbone".
5 out of 6 people found this helpful.
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1.5 STARS: This is a tired script.
Added 7/4/2005
One cannot help but notice after watching "7 Days To Live" that the script has run its course. In this movie, the acting is slightly below average although not terrible, but coupled with the fact that this is a very tired script inferior in every way to its predecessors, "7 Days To Live" simply is not a very good movie.
There are some creepy moments, but after seeing "The Shining", "Poltergeist" and "The Ring" ("The Ring" may have been made after this movie, but "Ringu" was made prior to both" which are all superior to this movie, "7 Days To Live" comes across rather boring and lacking in substance and style. There is no question that "7 Days To Live" borrows significantly from the abovementioned movies, but if one is going to try and make a movie like this, the acting and directing must be exceptional and the script must have a charm of its own of some sort which separates it from movies that went before it...such is not the case here. The result is a movie which is largely ineffective and downright boring as a horror movie.
I generously give "7 Days To Live" 1.5 STARS for effort, but the bottom line is that you cannot make a movie like this with average to slightly below average acting, a generic script and average directing and still expect the movie to be an effective horror movie because there are just too many other movies like this that are of a better quality.
1 out of 3 people found this helpful.
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