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7 Days To Live | Year: 2000 Directed: - Sebastian Niemann Actors/Actresses: - Amanda Plummer - Sean Pertwee Unexplained phenomena. 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. A spooky atmosphere and good acting I just rented and watched this movie..All I can say is, it was one of the best straight to video haunted house movies i've seen..the story is average..sure it borrow some elements from other horror movies like the shining and maybe even the ring, but i think it came out before the ring though..but for a low budget movie it was good..it doesn't rely on special effects and not alot of gore..but it kept me in to it..there are a couple of jumps..an eerie atmosphere and a spooky ending..even my Mom,my Niece and nephew liked it..My nephew first thought it was going to be stupid when he read the cover..but then into it he changed his mind..he's 10..anyway rent it..give it a try..I don't think it'll disappoint 2 HOURS TO YAWN..... This is a failed attempt at a Stephen King-ish story. A straight-to-video rehash of other (and better) movies about a troubled writer and his troubled but devoted wife who move into a great big old scary house way out in the "marsh". They are both grieving the recent loss of their only child--a little boy--to a sudden freak death (he swallowed a wasp in his cereal!). The husband becomes surly and starts pounding out his new "bestseller" on the computer while the wife starts seeing things and getting supernatural "messages" that she only has so many days to live---5 then 4 then 3 and so on. The husband doesn't believe her and goes totally bonkers while the wife desperately tries to figure out whats going on. Then TA-DA! She finds out the property is built on a huge mass grave of murdered convicts! If any of this sounds familiar, the story borrows shamelessly from "The Shining" and "Poltergeist"- even the ending with corpses coming up in the basement and the wife running around with a big butcher knife to get away from the crazed hubby is all too familiar. Only this go 'round, they both survive and write the bestseller that saves the husband's career: "7 Days to Live" based on their experiences! Hogwash. Don't waste your time (or your money) on this stale ghoul-ash. It's numbingly dull until the end and then it wallows in wife-bashing and goo. You've seen it all before. Too many times. Buy 7 Days To Live at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on 7 Days To Live Search with the Priority Search Engine on 7 Days To Live This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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