Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

By-TorX-1 I can add little to the general view that this sure is a murky and shaky visual experience, and so there is no real point in watching a film in which a lot happens that you cannot see much beyond flashes of two characters running about trying to escape out of focus wraiths, which is not exactly what I bargain for when I sit down to view a horror film. As such, this is not an effective fright film, just an increasingly frustrating and annoying one. In terms of the positives, it is interesting to see a wider cultural take on the supernatural, and the Chinese Ghost Festival is genuinely interesting, so it is just a shame that all of the potential to be unique is cast aside in favour of a cinematographic style that looks as if the camera operator was filming the action from atop a rollercoaster, at night. Furthermore, given that the film is not a found footage escapade, the visual documentary style is all the more strange. It might be argued that it is artistic and creative to give a supernatural drama a vérité sheen, but the subject matter does not merit such an approach and only serves to harm it as a horror film in which you cannot really see anything (or watch without getting a motion sickness headache) is not going to produce many scares or shocks. However, there is one point of intrigue that is unfortunately not shown by the director, and that is the crucial and heartfelt moment when Melissa tries to convincingly explain to everyone back in the USA that her missing husband has vanished forever because he is now a ghost who will periodically terrorise villagers if they do not sufficiently appease him and his ghostly friends with suitable offerings. Now that is a scene I would have liked to have seen, even if it was shot in the shakiest of shaky styles.

arutha10002 Someone is a fan of shaky-cam (or just couldn't afford a steady cam). But not content with annoying the audience with shaky cam, nonsensical jump-cuts were added to not only make the audience nauseated, but annoyed as well. Half the movie is close-ups of people's faces and the other half of the movie is too dark to see anything. Very bad.The story itself is nothing special. I was looking forward to it because I learned all about "Ghost Month" in Taiwan. The 7th lunar month is when spirits from the netherworld can come and cause mischief in our world, thus all the burning stuff to placate those spirits. It was more annoying than scary, interesting, or suspenseful.

loogenhausen Eduardo Sanchez is emerging as the more talented of the Blair Witch directing duo. The other, Daniel Myrick, helmed the disappointments The Believers and Solstice but rebounded with the interesting The Objective. After the enjoyable but slightly uneven Altered, Sanchez follows up with the creepy but flawed Seventh Moon. Really the only thing that keeps this from being a four star flick is the overabundance of unnecessary shaky cam tactics. In the Blair Witch it was tolerable, but here it makes no sense. We can clearly see the creatures attacking our main characters several times during the movie, so there's no need to employ all the shaky cam shenanigans to try to disorient the viewer. Besides that, everything else is quite effective. The remote locale is pretty spooky and you really do feel like you could be hopelessly lost in a place like that. Sanchez is great at this motif and it was present in Blair Witch and somewhat in Altered. Amy Smart screaming at the top of her lungs does get old after a little bit, but it doesn't distract too much from a fun but forgettable little foray into indie horror.

Claudio Carvalho In accordance with the Chinese Myth, on the full moon of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell open and the spirits of the dead are freed to roam among the living.Melissa (Amy Smart) and her husband Yul (Tim Chiou) are spending their honeymoon in the month of the ghosts in China, where they intend to visit his relatives. They participate in the Senwun (Ghost Festival) during the day, where they drink a lot of booze, and their driver Ping (Dennis Chan) heads to Anxian when the nights falls. A couple of hours later, Ping parks his car and tells that he is lost. He asks the couple to wait for him in his car while he asks for directions in a small village in the countryside. One hour later, Melissa and Yul decide to seek out Ping in the village, and they see the houses closed with live offering and the locals saying something in Cantonese. Yul does not understand what they are saying and the couple returns to the car and drive away trying to find the way back to the city. Sooner they meet a stranger, Wei, wounded on the road and Melissa decides to help the man. They are attacked by creepy creatures and they discover that the spirits of the dead are hunting the living. Melissa and Yul try to find a way to protect themselves and survive the hellish night."Seventh Moon" is a forgettable low-budget horror movie with a reasonable story and basically four characters only. Unfortunately the camera work is awful, with excessive use of closes and blurred while showing the fiends, maybe due to the limited budget for special effects. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "A Maldição da Sétima Lua" ("The Curse of the 7th Moon")