Lack of good storyline.

Admirable film.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Pros: Val Kilmer and Ving Rhames are always at least slightly interesting to watch, decent photography Cons: Extremely catastrophically horrendous acting, incoherent poor directing, generic dialogue, lots of stupid plot points The first few seconds of the movie are okay, it's like the build up to a generic ghost story. But then the so called acting starts, and it's all downhill. And trust me – it's a steep hill to go down.I like Val Kilmer and Ving Rhames usually is interesting to watch. But here they are stuck in a swamp of poorest of poor acting, and they get sucked in big time. The other actors range from horrible script readers to awful script readers, so there's not much to feed of.I don't know how much to blame the story, cause it is slaughtered by the pacing and directing in general. Stuff just happens, they jump to something else, and emotions seems to go a on roller coaster for everyone – one minute everyone is calm, then something happens and everyone is screaming, then back to calm. Not to mention it jumps from day to night from one shot to another.Only the photography saves it from being a 100% disaster – but it sure reads at least 90% on that scale.

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.

You can usually surmise after watching the first 15 or 20 minutes of a movie what you are in for, and 7 Below is no exception. The film is listed as a Horror/Thriller, but trust me, it should be rated as a DULLER because it is just slow moving and oh, so predictable. We have a couple of name actors in the film such as Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames and Luke Goss. But these actors cannot bring a dull script to life, let alone some 100 plus year old corpses who were murdered more than a century ago. The plot is about a family of four that is murdered by the young son, and how Ving Rhames fits in to the picture is just plain dumb. I won't spoil the so called plot for you, but to suffice to say by the end of the movie (if you get that far) you will be scratching your head, and asking yourself "Really?" "Come On!"The score I found irritating and the constantly dark sequences and thunder and rain outside is monotonous after the first half hour. The only good thing I can say that caught my attention was the artwork on the DVD cover. I gave it a 2 out of 10. Viewer beware, this film may put you to sleep.

A group of unrelated people get in a car accident in the middle of nowhere and are rescued by Jack (Ving Rhames) who tells them a massive storm is moving in and his house is the safest place. Once at the house the group slowly discovers that a series of murders took place 100 years ago at the house and they are all current day versions of those lost souls and are doomed to repeat it. Or something like that. This impossibly bad story and screenplay by Lawrence Sara and Kevin Carraway (who is also the Director) is a complete mess. Frustratingly vague in details and full of plot holes, this reasonable cast of decent actors also including a slumming Val Kilmer is tedious beyond belief. Every attempt to get scares and jumps from the audience fails miserably. The huge storm that drives them to the house in the first place turns out to be a little bit of rain. If any of the characters would think logically for even 60 seconds in this film it would be over. The final scene has a confused Adam (Barr) pleading with Jack (and overacting Rhames) that he doesn't understand what is going on and to explain. Why she he get off so easy? The audience had to put up with 90 minutes of what the hell is going on. Not so fast Adam, you have to suffer like the rest of us. This obviously had some sort of budget to lure Ving Rhames and Val Kilmer to it, but it is a complete flop.