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A group of
friends go to an exclusive party at a remote
mansion where a reality-TV show used to take place.
They decide to do some prank calls and end up calling
a demented serial killer by accident. The night
continues as if nothing's ever happened, but the killer
hasn't forgotten about them and is about to pay their
party a visit...
Code Black Entertainment sure are stepping up their
game lately and their latest slasher effort is a cut
above most recent DTV slashers. Now, when I first saw
the trailer I thought that this looked an awful lot
like "Urban Legends" since the killer wore a parka
but it didn't take me long to understand that this was
no rip-off, it's an homage of 90's slasher flicks.
I'm all for homage’s but isn't it a little early to
make an homage of movies like Scream, Urban Legend
and I Know What You Did Last Summer? Furthermore, even
though Urban Legend and I Know... were great slashers,
I hardly think that they're worthy of homage’s. Anyway,
I could be completely wrong, perhaps they just wanted
to copy every slasher flick out there but judging by
the opening scene it sure as hell didn't seem like it.
7eventy 5ive is a prank call game (you dial #75 so
that the one that you call can't see your number) made
up by a couple of friends. Since they're having a
slumber party, they decide to play the game and dial
a demented serial killer who then kills the entire
family of the boy living in the house. Now, over ten
years later, the friends are all grown up and most
of them have moved away. Still, a few of them are
going to an exclusive party and are hoping to have
the time of their lives. What they don't know is that
history is about to repeat itself.
There's nothing really special about 7eventy 5ive to
be honest with you, it's a decent slasher movie,
entertaining enough to get your blood pumping and
since it had decent production values, it's also
pretty pleasant for the eye. It's easy to guess who
the killer is though and the characters are all pretty
flat (even at this point I have no idea who the
main victims were). It's got a decent amount of gore
in it though and had it been made in the late 90s
I'm sure that it would have made millions of dollars
at the box-office. It's not quite up to par with the
movies that it's copying though and even though it
tries hard to be a kick-ass slasher flick, it never
quite gets there. In the end, it's a decent movie
but nothing more.
Now to some funny trivia about the release of the
movie. 7eventy 5ive was first released on DVD in
Germany and to my surprise I found myself quoted on
the back of the DVD even though I had never seen
the movie. The quote said something like "The new
cult-slasher flick with Rutger Hauer - Hard, Bloody
and Great". I did not write this, nor do I ever intend
to do so but for all you companies out there who
think that it's okay to just make up quotes, it's not.
Don't trust all the quotes that you read guys.
We get gory decapitations, a hand chopped off, an
axe in the back and a whole lot more. Pretty good.
I'm not a fan of hip-hop and r'n'b music but this was
actually a pretty damn good soundtrack. An A+ considering
that I'm not even a fan of this kind of music.
7eventy 5ive certainly isn't anything groundbreaking,
nor does it try to be, but it's a decent and gory
slasher flick with good production values and an
okay cast. It won't stay with you for long but if
you're looking for a decent slasher movie, this might
be worth checking out.
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