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7eventy 5ive (2007)
19 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
Just a another slasher movie (might contain spoilers), 2 September 2007
Author: Mascolo from Montreal, Canada
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Saw it yesterday night at the Midnight Slam of the Festival des films du Monde in Montreal. What a disappointment. This movie is clearly over rated by IMDb fans. The acting was only but regular. The directing didn't bring anything new or interesting. The plot lacks considerably : the movie is all about those college grads and the game they play making prank calls(7eventy 5ive). And on top of that, you can predict the movie's end in the first five minutes. If you like prank calls and a slasher with an axe that makes you jump only once or twice during the whole movie, you might like it. If you don't, this movie is not worth it.
5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
Oh, all those braindead characters.., 23 December 2007
Author: Conny Bengtsson (connyskribent@hotmail.com) from Varberg, Sweden
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What an utter disappointment! The score of 6,1 here on IMDb built up some mild expectations but, oh my, was I disappointed. The first thing that bugs me are those braindead, stereotyped university kids. Yes, I know teens can be childish and so on, but why are they in movies always portrayed as complete braindead morons? There was one character that I thought was alright, but he/she (not revealing it here) was killed off way before the end. The other characters was poorly executed and even the supposed hero/heroine just didn't do it for me. On the plus side: The plot is pretty good and the productions values a cut above for these kind of flicks. The acting was generally not very good, Rutger Hauer stands out in a small role. But it all fails with bland and braindead characters. You just stop caring about them after 10 minutes. 4/10 (and thats being generous).
7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
A throwback to 80's slasher flicks, 26 December 2007
Author: mountaindew171 from United States
This was great, it took me back to being a kid and going to see all those 80's horror flicks! No its not an original concept but really how many of those are left? Nothings original in Hollywood. It's just a straight forward lots of blood, a bit of a storyline slasher flick.
As for caring about the characters, are we supposed to? To me a slasher flick is supposed to be full of one dimensional characters that can be cut into tiny pieces every couple minutes. It's pure fun!
Rutger does a good job in his small role, just enough to add a bit of seriousness to the film but not enough to make you think too much and with a slasher do you really want to think? Naw.
7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Why God? Why?, 21 January 2008
Author: olliejackson from United States
5 minutes into this movie I was hyperventilating, shaking, and writhing in pain. And not in the good way. The story is about a troupe of idiotic children making prank phone calls to a psycho which is always a good idea. Turns out psychos don't like prank phone calls because in 2 minutes time he's at their door killing poor Williams mom and dad. Well skip ahead 15 years and guess what? Still prank phone calling people. Yep you would of thought that a horrible murder would of deterred them from doing that ever again but no. So after about two hours later and way too many scream ripoffs I realized that this movie gave me nothing but a terrible taste in my mouth and a severe urge to take my own life. This piece of crap isn't even worth laughing at the shoddy production, the "acting", or Rutger haurs dwindling career. I love crappy horror movies but this is the most unsatisfying piece I've ever seen. Just don't.
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
This is a near-perfect slasher film:, 4 April 2008
Author: Duane Craig from United States
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I can understand if some people watch a movie and are expecting it to be the most perfect film ever, but when a horror film actually blows away a years worth of bigger budget competition, you should give props.
7eventy 5ive is what horror audiences need these days...something that is original. Sure, it's all been done before when it comes to the plot lines that a slasher film can have, but you have to be naive to expect that matters the most. There are always the details of the plot and how it unfolds, and 75 gives us that. What the film really excels in is being graphic, brutal and to the point. There isn't much nonsense going on at all in the film, and unlike many slasher films, it's not littered with unplausible humor. It does have situational humor where you the audience member can laugh, though the characters are being dead serious as they should be in such terrifying situations.
This film has one of the most unrelentless killers I've seen in a film in many years. There is passion for the genre, homage, graphic gore, good acting and a worthy climax for this film. I don't know what else you need to stand out from the pack. This film needs to hit DVD soon so I can add it to my collection. You can bank on this film hitting cult status quick, too.
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
good film. entertaining kills, 29 January 2008
Author: ICPhannah from United Kingdom
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7eventy5ive was on the list of films added to 'joox' and i was so bored i decided to watch it. As soon as the first flick of the film came on you are hooked. Although it is so predictable whats going to happen, you can't help but want to see some bloody and gory kills. There are a few twists that once they happen you look back and remember you should of been able to realise that they were going to happen.
the minor jumpy bits merely lead you on half the time and maybe once it actually scares you for a reason. I'm going to say what half they other people have said about the characters and that is they're a little bit stereotypical and they're the sort of people you love to hate. i must admit some of the killings are a bit cheesy and good of used some more imagination.
The killer is mysterious and freaky and i thought the furry hood was adorable. The most annoying thing in the movie is the ending. Trust me. you'll get so aggravated.
anyway good film to watch. your missing out on some proper nasty stuff if you don't see it!
2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Not toooooo bad...., 26 December 2007
Author: priapus_23 from United Kingdom
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This film annoyed me for a while...There were a few dumb lines, clichés & odd scene jumps but after a while I realised I was being way too harsh on the movie...It's a slasher movie...It's supposed to have dumb lines & clichés! Not sure about the scene jumps - eg: when the police suddenly appear behind their car at the gates of the house (after following the group down a looooong straight road with no one noticing them???)...Where did they come from?? The scene would've worked better if at least one person looked behind and said 'oh no it's the cops.' Another negative is the fact that it seems to borrow from soooo many other movies (esp. Scream - The whole phone call thing, 'I can seeee you', 2 killers, victim/killer twist, etc. My MAJOR gripe about this movie was the dumb DUMB bimbo who decides to turn down the lights to 'set the mood for the killer at the door' (not her exact words, but almost) which then pretty much let the sfx guy off on a few of the murders - couldn't see a thing.... Although those murders that I could see were well done. The twists at the end (there are a few) came a bit tooo thick and fast for my liking - Give us time to take in one twist before you throw the next at us! ha ha...I did guess part of the twist from the 1st 1/3 of the movie - I knew the killer would be one of them, I guessed which of the kids it would be, I even guessed there was two of them...Didn't think the accomplice would be a friend from the asylum tho - as we were never told any of them went into one! (could have given us some clues there rather than just letting us know at the end with a 'well this is what happened to me over the years' ploy!) That's the negatives out the way...On the plus side: I enjoyed this movie! (May not sound like it ha ha...But I did!) It worked well as a slasher movie (which I used to LOVE when I was younger) and is better than a lot of slashers I've seen over the past few years... The characters were annoying enough to think 'good they're gonna die' but not to the point of making them unwatchable. The stereotypes weren't completely over-the-top (Death Proof was almost unwatchable because of this so hey - the crew of this movie did better than Tarantino! he he) The acting was a lot better than I thought it would be (no Oscar winners but certainly not jarring at all (again...Death Proof anyone?)). Hmmm...This is turning into a biiiiig review for a good but not great movie...But I felt some other reviews were too extreme (ie the worst film of 2007 through to the 'must-see!' comments). Basically...It is what it is...A quite well done slasher that does stand out, but only because sooooo much dross has come out over recent years... Oh and BTW...LOVED the axe....Nothing says psycho killer like an axe (well...maybe a chainsaw...he he).
3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Dumb But Fun..., 23 December 2007
Author: booperkins (booperkins@aol.com) from United Kingdom, Colchester.
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You know, the amount of dross these days served up to us is a bit of an insult. I sift through some awful films, but occasionally I come across a nice little find, and 7ENTY 5IVE is one of them.
It is a straight forward slasher flick, which in all truth is'nt original, but it is entertaining. It has a few nice little twists, that I did'nt see coming.
It has some decent gore effects, decapitations, axe wounds and a lot of blood spatter.
I can recommend this to all horror fans who like a slasher flick, it's not a masterpiece, but it is good fun, like I mentioned, it is'nt nothing that has'nt been done before, but it moves along at a nice little clip, and the likes of SCREAM came out of nowhere, so you never know - 7ENTY 5IVE might get a little following and come out all guns blazing.
4 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
7eventy 5ive ... percent of the characters in this movie are incredibly unlikable, 13 January 2008
Author: homerjer from United States
The plot of 7EVENTY 5IVE involves college kids who play a cruel phone game that unexpectedly (to them, if not to fans of horror) gets them in over their heads. The STORY of 7EVENTY 5IVE, on the other hand, is that of a horror film that had a wee little bit of promise, sadly outweighed by really bad writing.
What could have been a fun, if somewhat silly, old-fashioned slasher tale is derailed early on by its filmmakers' misguided belief that the audience would enjoy watching a bunch of loud, whiny rich kids bitching at each other for most of the film's running time. With the exception of a police detective played by Rutger Hauer, (in a minor role that is designed mainly to add the movie's only star power) every character on screen is a different breed of young A-hole.
Male and female, black and white, straight and gay, an entire ensemble of shallow and shrill college kids carries the bulk of the film's narrative. Worse, since the tale deals with a PARTY game gone awry, most of the time the scenes are completely filled with these little b*****ds. Because of this, there are few breaks for the viewer, who must put up with the angry sniping of the thinly-drawn protagonists. Even though at least some of these people are supposedly friends, invariably all characters interact in a very hostile manner, long before any genuine conflict has actually arisen. This leads to the worst possible result in a slasher film: The audience, intended to care about the leads, instead not only cheers on the anonymous killer, but wishes that he had arrived to start picking off the vacuous brats far earlier.
The real shame of this poor characterization is that otherwise 7EVENTY 5IVE actually DID have some potential. Visually it's fine. First-time directors Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor know how to build a suspenseful mood. They also manage to deliver on some competent, if sparse, moments of classic 80s-style gore. Surprisingly, the production's cast is also fairly able. It isn't that the actors aren't capable of expressing realistic human emotion; it is simply that the screenplay (co-written by newcomer Vashon Nutt and director Hooks, who fared much better behind the camera than with a keyboard) is short of such moments.
7EVENTY 5IVE can hardly be recommended, as its familiar premise and few thrills can't outweigh the bad taste left behind by a story driven by a gaggle of unpleasant characters. In this tepid whodunnit, the real mystery is why anyone should care about a group of young folk who can't even manage to like each other.
6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Axes 4 All, 23 December 2007
Author: Bo Schreurs from Netherlands
I am a horror fan, and a horror movie with Rutger Hauer in it, is a must see. Although he plays the good guy in this movie mind you. If you like gore and blood, this movie delivers. There is even a kind of story line in it, a bit shallow, but not bad at all. It lacks a bit sexual explicit content though, which is normally the case in horror films. Although the movie starts out violently, it takes a while before the movie takes up pace again, but keep watching, you won't be disappointed. When the chopping starts, you wonder who is next to die and who will live... And then the end, I really, really liked it. Anyway, 2 thumbs up, and looking forward to the sequel...
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