Plot Summary
Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" (Martin Dubreuil) and make him pay for his crime.The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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85%- Reviews Counted: 13
- Fresh: 11
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 6.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Director Grou lacks the gene for sheer, bloody exploitation, he also doesn't know how to rack up the tension and get under viewers' collective skin.
Fresh: Despite the blood and gore, 7 Days is a cut above the usual splice-and-dice horror festival, but it's not for the squeamish or fainthearted.
Customer Reviews
More drama than horror
This movie is kind of boring. Not anything exciting happens. If you can't sleep watch this one, you'll just be interested enough to doze off. It would be great for a made for tv network movie, throw in a couple scenes or torture. The story is different than most, but doesn't go far enough with the gore nor action nor dialogue.... It's a D plus of a movie.
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Worth the rental
This film definitely has places where it drags a bit and really gets slow but I definitely get the reason why. The director probably wanted you to feel the emptiness that the characters felt after their daughter was taken and the hollowness that their home was filled with afterward. Some of the simple shots of the husband holding his wife's hand as she sat on the bed was absolutely brilliant and I thought everything in the film was reasonably realistic. The torture scenes were definitely not as gruesome as I fought they were going to be but I also think that most of us in the same situation would not he able to do the things to another human being that we really imagined if they were actually hanging in front of us. I loved this in the film. It really showed the husband swimming in his own grief and sort of empty and at a loss for what to do next. One of the best parts is the amount of drinking his does to keep his courage at a high level and to numb himself in general. Very well done. I've this film a shot but go into it wanting something very realistic and not another cheesy saw movie with unrealistic gore. I think this is where most people will find it boring. They are expecting a massive amount of torture gore and that's not realistic. The father wasn't a series killer. All in all a great film. Enjoy!
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