bbickley13-921-58664
A few people on the road together for a reason that truly does not matter (I would tell you, but it really doesn't matter) getting caught in a storm and rescued by a creepy guy who takes them back to his place where strange things start to happen. It's a weak plot but that can be forgiven if implemented well, but this time it was not. I feel like nobody was even trying to make the formulated plot even remotely interesting. So somewhere between making Death Race 2 and 3 I reckon, Ving Rhames and Luke Goss decide to team up with Val Kilmer to star in this small film. It would have been a better idea to have Klimer just join them in Death Race Inferno, (and go up against Danny Trejo in a Grunge match (don't act like the idea does not do something for you). It's more of a psychological horror film at first, as the cast spend most of their time trying to figure out what's causing the terror, but when the owner of the house reveals it's history, that's when his guest start to believe in supernatural interference. Of course the movie may have worked better if it was formatted as a found footage film like Paranormal Activity rather than a straighter narrative. However, a found footage would mean you could not cast Ving and Val (sounds like a morning radio show) and put them on the DVD cover in hopes that the new kings of straight-to-Video would attract audiences (I feel bad for booth Ex-Hollywood darlings, but for some reason, I feel a little worse for Val, maybe it's the weight he put on) It seems like Ghost stories are gaining popularity these days. I see more Ghost stories than Zombie films lately. I like the genre, but for the most part, I think I saw most of the good ones, like insidious, and the so so ones like MaMa. This was a bad one, however.
seans_life
Easily tied for worst movie I have ever seen and may be the worst. I thought the acting throughout was horrible other than what the people involved in the actual murder event did at the beginning and in later flashbacks. That was all that was good. The soundtrack to this thing awful. The lines the actors had to say at times simple, pathetic with nothing that would really grab you and I definitely think they were handicapped by the lines given to them but you could also see that some were just plain bad actors/actresses. I honestly can't believe they were given $6 million to make this garbage. This is easily tied with what I consider one of the worst films ever which was Freddy Got Fingered. The only good thing in that movie was the scene with Tom Green rolling around with a dead deer or something and that honestly I tried to laugh at but it was just creepy.Seriously if I could give this film a zero I would.Do not watch this even if it is given to you free which lucky for me it was as part of a rental deal at Family Video where I got 3 free movies for renting a video game mid week or something like that.In regards to the title of this movie I can't even figure out why it is called this nor do I really want to spend any time figuring out why it is called that because who honestly cares when this movie is just so bad !!!!Avoid this movie at all costs.
Woodyanders
A group of strangers find themselves stranded following a tour bus accident. They seek shelter in an old house that turns out to be haunted. Naturally, they start to get picked off one by one. Director Kevin Carraway, who also co-wrote the trite and talky by-the-numbers script with Lawrence Sara, allows the blah and meandering story to unfold at a painfully sluggish pace, generates not a single iota of tension or spooky atmosphere, signposts the killer's identity well in advance, and trots out a numbing succession of groan-inducing tried'n'true horror clichés that include a mysterious ghost girl on the side of the road, the proverbial dark'n'stormy night, creepy reflections that suddenly pop up in mirrors, and, worst of all, folks wandering off by themselves so they can make for easy targets. The mostly sorry acting from the largely underwhelming cast doesn't help matters any: Val Kilmer seems dead on his feet and mumbles all his dialogue (plus he gets killed early in the action despite his prominent billing in the credits), Luke Goss proves to be a colossal drip, Rebecca Da Costa looks mighty fetching, but can't act for spit, and Christian Baha sports an indecipherable foreign accent that renders all of his lines borderline unintelligible. Ving Rhames tries hard as the enigmatic Jack, but even he can't surmount the poor writing and flat direction. But what really dooms this dud to outright crumminess is the fact that it's incredibly freaking dull. A hopelessly soporific stinker.
Claudio Carvalho
The wolf lawyer Bill McCormick (Val Kilmer) and his estranged wife Brooklyn (Bonnie Somerville); the brothers Issac (Luke Goss) and Adam (Matt Barr); and Dr. Lipski (Christian Baha) are returning from a resort in a van. They stop in a gas station where Adam and Bill woo the attendant Courtney (Rebecca Da Costa) and when they return to the road, the driver sees a mysterious woman on the road and crashes the van on a tree. The driver dies and the group of strangers is helped by Jack (Ving Rhames) that invites them to go to his house since a storm is coming. Adam meets Courtney with her broken car on the road and she joins the group. Soon they find that they are trapped in the house that is inhabited by ghosts. Further they learn that one hundred years ago a family was slaughtered by their insane son and they can see the boy killing his family again and again."Seven Below" is a senseless and lame ghost story and one of the worst horror movies that I have ever seen. The plot is an awful rip-off of the storyline of Claude Chabrol's "Alice ou la Dernière Fugue", with a car crash on a tree and the character trapped in a house.Ghost stories are usually attractive, but unfortunately "Seven Below" does not make any sense. The characters are poorly developed and Val Kilmer and Ving Rhames are absolutely decadent in their careers. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Sete Almas" ("Seven Souls")
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