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My first, as far as I remember, review. I love a good kill 'em all movie. I even like some of the macabre cult classics, but this was fairly insulting to my movie senses.

Aside from scenes that were repeated, the acting was bad, the gore was was 'eh', but it was the scenes and reasonless killings with characters that had no real business being in the plot (Chris) and no continuous cohesive thought.

I knew the movie was rubbish when the deaf girl was looking at her shot leg and saying 'why did you shoot me in the leg I was going to represent in the Nationals' - that scene was so trying to go for your heart strings but failed.

This is a "I don't have anything better to do with my time" movie.

THE 7TH HUNT is an indie action/horror/thriller from Australia that's just as pitiful as most films that this genre throws up. It concerns a poorly-written bunch of characters who are kidnapped and taken to a remote location, only to be released and hunted by a gang of serial killers with their own individual personalities and methods.

In essence, it's a HOSTEL copy but lacking that film's disturbing content and surprisingly excellent direction. The actors have the most unrealistic reactions ever, the sound effects are too noisy, and the whole thing is violently unrealistic. A waste of time, in other words.

I don't think that I was suppose to laugh out loud at the ridiculous dialogue. In one of the violent scenes, when tormenting a victim who's hands are tied above her head, the torturer says, "By the time I'm finished with you, even hell won't have you." But she's the victim. Why would hell want to have the innocent victim? I shouldn't really be concerned with the dialogue being that the film doesn't really have a story but tries to find reasons to show people being tortured by psychotic killers. The inconsistencies here are all over the place, for instance a victim has a cigarette burn mark in their armpit before the cigarette is use to burn the arm pit. A deaf girl actually turns her head to see who's calling from another room. And a surprise reveal at the end that has no reason for the viewer to think otherwise.

Basically this is torture porn done purely. Bad makeup effects, terrible characters, goofy dialogue, and it's not even fun to watch while getting drunk with friends. Instead it was confusing and left us feeling gross.

I love watching indie/low budget horror flicks, but this I couldn't even finish watching in one sitting.

No redeeming qualities whatsoever. I know how hard it is to get these made, then distributed, but it simply wasn't that original or had any likable characters. Just victims and killers. We learn very little about the would be victims and then, they just start getting tortured.

I'm sure some folks will like this, but the moment the one girl gets stabbed while helplessly being tied up I stopped watching AND I never do that. Honest. I did finish the movie the next day, but it got so unoriginal that I fast-forwarded most of it just to see who would make it till the end.

Sorry to be so harsh on this film but it just wasn't scary or entertaining. Just my opinion.

yeah, this may contain spoilers, am just typing what we wrote down when we watched this one. Sorry !!!

Well, who are we? We're a group of guys and girls at college in Columbus who have decided to meet every month at one house, grab a stack of d.v.d's, lots of pizza and do what we do. We grabbed this one from the indie stack and as one of us lived in Oz for a while on student exchange we thought why not, at least Kym can translate for us if the accents are too bad. This is what we all wrote down on our slips of paper, just like they do in the movie houses when they ask for a review, but we had beer!!!

We liked the film!

The music was a bot over the top at the start, but i guess for a low budget film it was kinda OK. Not sure why the killers all meet and kill the people they do, but we kinda got the idea from the newspaper clippings at the start its all some conspiracy (if they are Aussies and they are like Mel Gibson, i wonder who they will blame it on??!?!)

The girls were split as to who they would tap, couple of us liked Sniper, while the rest wanted Hacker (what is he hiding under the leather jacket?!?!). We all thought the limp the director got Sniper do do was kinda dumb and made him look silly.

The guys all wanted Ariel, the deaf runner, but the sister Callie came a close second.

Acting - well one review said it was awful, but thats pretty harsh dudes. Hacker was the favorite of us all. The Aussie accent was almost not there, so we got him. Loved his humor especially when he cracked it at his victim for bleeding everywhere after he chopped a finger off .. and then chose which cooking spice to put on it! Kick Butt awesome! The girls thought he was hot and acted good. Same with Sniper. Knife was just scary, but he was great. The best of the victims was Ariel, who kicked ass with her acting and Callie. Most of us felt that the Inquisitor was too over the top and kinda crap, same with Ricky.

College Film Review Overall - we give the film a thumbs up and say to everyone rent it out! The director Cohen (well maybe we wont see a Mel Gibson sequel) and the co-director, the dude who played Hacker, did well. Davey told me to make sure we mention the DP (he's studying to be a DP so guess what he looked at more than anything else), as the DP did well too.

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short update -

we hired it again and bought a copy exrental and have one last comment.

The Hacker is the hottest now to us girls, including a few newbies to our group. We want him to come here and make us confess or maybe we will make him confess. :) JD COHEN, you MUST have him in more films in bigger roles so we can all watch him some more :) Does he have a fan mail we can talk to him? Are you going to work with him again or is he now just directing? we noticed on IMDb that he directed a feature film recently. Please don't let him just direct!!

and we still think the film rocks!

and also as much as we hate to say it we love Imogen to bits. just why she has to be so talented and good looking we think its so unfair, maybe the next movie should have the hacker and Ariels twin sister in it :)