7eventy 5ive Movie
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Finals at the prestigious University of Dreyskill are finally over and it's time to party. "The Crew", as they are known by their peers and dorm mates, are invited to a rich classmate's hideaway mansion high up in the hills of Colorado. What was supposed to be a weekend of fun and relaxation quickly becomes a trip they will never forget... If they survive! A simple game of prank scare phone calls becomes an intense game of survival and escape when one of the Crew members accidentally calls the wrong person.
| Brian Hooks | Marcus |
| Antwon Tanner | Kareem |
| Cherie Johnson | Roxy |
| Wil Horneff | Scott |
| Germán Legarreta | Shawn |
| Aimee Garcia | Jody |
| Jud Tylor | Karina |
| Jonathan Chase | Brandon |
| Austin Basis | Crazy Cal |
| Kyle Turley | Accomplice |
| Denyce Lawton | Anna |
| Rutger Hauer | Detective Criton |
| Gwendoline Yeo | Detective Ann Hastings |
| Naeem Alvi | Frat Guy #3/Party Boy #3 |
| Matt Barnick | College Frat Guy |
| Brian Hooks |
4.70 out of 10 (453 votes)
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posted on 11 Jul 2009I enjoyed this movie as it was every bit as good as any other Horror/Slash movie flick that we have seen. You don't want to have to think and analyze when you are watching, you just want it to flow. I thought the cast did a great job with what they had to work with. The script was poorly written, leaving plots hanging for us to try to figure out. They gave us a lot of blood and gore which makes this kind of movie met its audience's demands. I personally enjoyed the ending, but wished that they hadn't killed off Katrina, as they could of done a sequel. I guess they could say she was stabbed, but didn't die. I liked her, the killer and of course Ratguer Hauer, the detective the best.
Not bad.... for a slasher
posted on 05 Jul 2009Put a bunch of typical (read : annoying) teenagers partying in a huge mansion, feed them with alcohol and sex and let an axe murderer ruin the party. That's pretty much the idea.Although there are some huge plot holes and the characters are too unlikable too care for, this didn't ruin the entertainment value for me. The atmosphere and style of this film is very reminiscent of "All the boys love Mandy Lane" as well as the old fashioned '80s slasher films. If this is what you're looking for, you're probably gonna enjoy this film. However, don't expect it to be anything more than that. It sure as h*** ain't no Shakespeare (to stick with the ghetto language of some of this film's characters).
Dumb But Fun...
posted on 09 Jun 2009You 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.
7eventy Five fails
posted on 05 Jun 2009I'm sorry to all the fans, but this is a useless movie. The acting is bad, even wooden, it over-hypes the fright-factor early on, and doesn't exactly work. I think there was supposed to be a twist at the end, but it just ended up being maddeningly confusing. What the hell? The dude who was killing everyone was one of the hunted? Try again.Its hardly original, and it isn't even particularly good as a straight slasher. And that's saying something.I think whoever did the castings, whoever wrote the script, and whoever thought of the concept should be mercilessly fired and deported.Don't watch this movie. If someone puts this on at a party, throw the disc out the window and put on a good horror movie, like Silence of the Lambs or The Shining.
Why God? Why?
posted on 01 Jun 20095 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.
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posted on 01 Dec 2008I expected the absolute minimal when renting "7eventy 5ive" and, even though the opening sequences seemed to confirm I was about to see yet another abysmal and irritating modern slasher flick, the whole thing eventually turned out to be an entertaining and moderately surprising movie. Sometimes the opening credits alone are enough to betray the quality-level of the entire film, and in the case of "7eventy 5ive" this already was a pretty bad omen. Luckily the movie got a whole lot better after that. The story idea (of the intro as well as of the whole movie) isn't too bad, but the execution is terrible, with the hopelessly unclear editing of gory murders interlarded with the most amateurishly accomplished credit you've ever seen. During some kind of party event, the kids of several couples are in the bedroom making prank calls to random people. The night ends in a complete bloodbath when the parents receive a visit from an axe-wielding maniac. The title of the movie refers to a prank call game where the player has to try and keep the other person on the line for at least 75 seconds. Ten years after the massacre, some of the survivors are still playing this game with their new college friends, but once again the prank backfires on them when another (or the same?) killer answers the phone and decides to make a house call after. "7eventy 5ive" is a pretty standard and unmemorable slasher movie containing all the basic screenplay ingredients (dumb bimbo girls, macho guys, transparent red herrings, …) but also a handful of mildly imaginative elements (like a neat attempt to a surprise end-twist, some okay humor and a even a little bit of suspense). The murders are, in good old 80's tradition, engrossing and plentiful. The hooded killer swings around an impressive axe, so you may prepare to see various brutal beheadings, limb amputation and more similarly repulsive stuff. The soundtrack somewhat annoyed me, but maybe that's because I'm not much of a hip-hop fan. The youthful cast isn't as bad and untalented as all the other reviewers claim they are (except for the main blond chick) and it was very nice to see Rutger Hauer in the brief supportive role of veteran police officer. I assumed his character would be the typically sarcastic and witty copper, but it actually was a serious role. If you choose to watch "7eventy 5ive" today, you'll probably won't remember much about it tomorrow, but at least it offered some fun and thrills while it lasted. Personally, I appreciate modest and small-scaled productions like this over boisterous and pretentious films that claim to save the genre, like, oh I don't know, "Hatchet"?
This is a near-perfect slasher film:
posted on 14 Oct 2008I 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.
Not good...but full of Magic
posted on 28 Sep 2008This wasn't really a very good movie. There were lots of implausible and predictable things that happened during the course of the film...but I think that most of the reviewers are missing the point of why this movie should be enjoyed by a wide audience. THIS MOVIE WAS PRODUCED BY MAGIC JOHNSON! Isn't that enough to inspire us all to check out this film? A film produced by a former NBA star doesn't come along every day, you know. Beautifully stupid kids in a big house getting slashed by an axe wielding psycho. Every cliché trotted out for us to groan over. Teen sex. And it was all produced by MAGIC JOHNSON! I can't say enough about this movie! Teen drug use! College hijinx! And it was all produced by MAGIC JOHNSON! Yippeeee!
Axes 4 All
posted on 14 Sep 2008I 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...
A throwback to 80's slasher flicks
posted on 19 Aug 2008This 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.
7eventy 5ive ... percent of the characters in this movie are incredibly unlikable
posted on 19 Apr 2008The 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.
Poor acting, directing, and writing
posted on 04 Mar 2008I was attracted to seeing this movie because of this plot and my desire to watch a horror.To my disappointment, this turned into more of a comedy than a horror. The acting, dialog, and flow of the movie was all very poorly done. Much of it didn't make sense. For example, there's a party of about 30 people and they're all terrified of one person despite them being at a secret location and are all healthy looking young adults and the guy threatening them sounds haggard. I kept thinking, maybe this was a parody of another movie like Scary Movie, but they were trying too hard to make it look gruesome - emphasis on try.The blood and gore are also poorly done. I've seen Halloween costumes look more believable than this. A guy with his head cut clean off... looked clean - missing signs bone, flesh, blood, and even the head. A strong downward strike with an ax on a corpse should lodge itself into something... seemed like the guy was swinging a bat instead of an ax.Revealing who the main villain was supposed to be a twist, but contradicted other parts in the story. What was going in the guy's mind to turn out like that? If there was going to be a twist, you should at least build up to it adding mystery and suspense.
Not toooooo bad....
posted on 18 Jan 2008This 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).
It Was Okay not as good as scream But better then 4.5
posted on 13 Dec 2007OK for starters so this movie could be considered a scream Ripoff But... I thought it was kind of clever how then invented the whole 75 second concept. The acting was okay.. The action was quite good for your standard Slasher film & it seems like they used a reasonable budget on it compared to many slasher films as this is normally a really low budget film area. Many slashers are done for well under $100,000(US) I would guess by watching this movie it might have cost maybe $5 mil to make. & I thought the ending was OK But I wont tell you anything about the ending in case you watch itI think its worth a 6 1/2 But if you want to pick holes in it for being a scream ripoff maybe it is a 4.5 But its not a bad movie anyway
What could have been a great slasher movie
posted on 02 Oct 2007Here we go with other slasher movie, Good looking people and Acting from everyone was really good!Few kids playing pranks phones calls and there parents are killed by the killer in front of the kids! 20 Years after they are still friends, They go to huge house, have fun, Drugs and Sex (no nudity) for least half a hour of the movie! Again they start making pranks phone call all over again! and then killer comes back kills them off one by one and killer is in BIG BLACK COAT with axe just like Urban Legend movie,Deaths scene really weird, really odd times too.Nice slasher movie at this part would gave 7/10 but the twist at the end of the movie made the whole movie kinda of pointlessThe twist killed the movie for me so I going to give it 4/10
Breaking the usual Hollywood mold.
posted on 24 Sep 2007This is only the second movie I've been moved enough to comment on. What a strange movie, normally I'm on the side of the good guys, but from the opening credits I was on the side of the killer. Brat kids get perhaps a bit more than they deserve and smart mouthed over-age US college students, still just as smart mouthed, get their just desserts. OK the punishment for being smart mouthed was a bit extreme, but then hey it's just a movie. Great entertainment completely breaking the usual good guys win mold. Making the audience hate the good guys and then take them out one by one. Or am I the only one to see the movie this way, in which case perhaps I should get help.
Oh, all those braindead characters..
posted on 14 Sep 2007What 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).
Just a another slasher movie (might contain spoilers)
posted on 10 Sep 2007Saw 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.
Steals from both SCREAM and SCARY MOVIE
posted on 14 Jul 2007The beginning is well-made and scary, but the editor messes the tension up by having everybody in the credits (and there parents as well it seems) stopping the movie every 20 seconds.As it progresses the movie wuits being scary and becomes more of a SCARY MOVIE spoof type of film for the next 40 minutes, then it shifts into a wannabe SCREAM.With that considered it's actually watchable, even though it's one of the most uneven films i have ever seen, but there where some cool scenes and some decent acting, although BRIAN HOOKS being around 30 playing around 17 isn't really convincing.
Nice concept, not executed too well.
posted on 08 Aug 2009This movie has a quite good promising concept for a genre movie. It's a slasher in which lots of people are getting killed randomly by a serial killer. Like many genre movies before the movie uses phone-calls as its main concept. It's something which always works out well for horror/thriller movies. Nothing wrong with the phone-class but everything else about the movie is just way below par.I purely watch these kind of movies because of Rutger Hauer. Even though the movies are always horrible, his presence still gives the movies always something special. But like always, his role is far too small. Perhaps if he was the main lead the movie would still had been more bearable. It now is as if he plays in a totally different movie himself and has nothing to do with the main plot-line of the movie. Like his scenes were shot at a totally different phase of production. I bet he never ever even met most of the other actors and crew members involved with the movie.One of the movie its problem are its characters. The movie is a slasher, so of course it features a bunch of university students, played of course by a bunch of actors who are close to- or even older than 30 years already. None of them are however likable or memorable. They are basically all the same and a bunch of typical stereotypes. I don't even know who all these characters were and what their names were. There are just too many characters in it and most of them are just asking to be killed.The movie its story also just doesn't ever seem to get off the ground. The first halve of the movie is filled with many false scares. Way too many. The scare moments of the movie because of this start to become really ineffective. It even makes the movie more comical like at times than an horror movie. Not sure if this was the point of it all. It was Brian Hooks first and as of yet only directed movie. Besides that he also played the main lead and served as a producer and writer for the movie. He's obviously not the most talented person around in the business.When the movie becomes more of a slasher and horror/thriller movie the movie becomes more watchable to watch for the genre fans, despite being formulaic and predictable with it all. No, it's just not the most exciting or scary genre movie around but there are also definitely worse of out there. The genre fans should be able to appreciate some of the gore and violence of the movie.The movie soon however starts to get worse again as it heads toward its ending, when the movie is trying to be clever by trowing a couple of twists (what else is new?), which are just too far out there and don't work out well for the movie as a whole.5ive/10en