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Nine friends gather at a house in the country for a week of
relaxation and booze filled nights. But when something goes
wrong and unleashes an evil spirit, the snowstorm outside
has turned from cosy to the obstacle which has them trapped
inside the big mansion. As the evil spirit moves from one
body to the other, the friends have to figure out a way to
kill this evil entity before it kills them.
Nine Lives is Scotland’s new addition to the horror genre,
to bad it's such a bad one. Films like this usually have a
cool opening scene but they didn't even bother to make an
opening scene, instead they used a clip from the movie and
wrote, "earlier that day" when the movie begins. Am I the
only one that hates this phenomenon? Anyway, so the movie
begins with some cool opening titles and you get the feeling
that this might turn out to be quite a good movie despite
the ultra cheesy opening scene. Well, 5 minutes later we
learn that this is not the fact. Instead, it goes from bad
to hilariously terrible.
From here on we get more plot holes than any horrormovie
has given us before. I mean, first of all, the way that
they find the book is so unoriginal and uncreative. Then
the book disappears for a while, only to be found in a
completely different place, but oh wait, this time the
book looks almost as a completely different book, this
time it has burnt pages and lots of illustrations. Oh you
wouldn't believe all the plot holes that fills this movie,
people from the cast disappears and are never to be seen
again and there are so many clichés that you can't help
laughing at them, that is if you actually manage to stay
awake through the entire movie.
Now to the big surprise, it looks as if this movie had
a fairly high budget since it's filmed with a 35mm camera
and they filled the whole outdoors set with fake snow,
oh and if I'm not mistaking, when you set your foot in
snow, it usually leaves a mark, but oh no, I must be wrong,
cause the snow just bounced back up here. Anyhow, it shows
that the entire crew at the set must have made quite an
effort with bringing us this movie since the directing
and special effects look quite good. I have to say that
I feel a bit sorry for the cast though since they were
all fed with stupid dialogues and comments. I actually
won't even comment on the acting since it was the dialogues
that ruined their performances.
This is the third horrormovie within two years time
that comes from Great Britain and involves evil spirits
changing bodies. First we had Long Time Dead, which I
assume that we've all seen and hated, then we had Ghost
Rig which was actually really good. But Nine Lives is
basically the same movie as Ghost Rig, only without the
good acting and eeriness and story. Nine Lives fails to
entertain us as a horrormovie but it succeeds to entertain
us at other levels, as long as we are able to laugh at
what is so hilariously bad that you question yourself how
the hell this movie got made.
Oooh, some bloody stabbings, original.
This soundtrack sounded as if some 11 year old boy had been
mixing around with some Ejay program for the first time.
In other words it was terrible. The main score that was
used in the movie involved annoying drums in different tones,
I mean, what the hell!
Unbelievably bad horrormovie in the vein of Long Time Dead
and Ghost Rig. I will seriously laugh at the company that
promotes and distributes this sad waste of a film. If you're
like me and love to laugh at bad movies, you should
definitely get a kick out of this one, but if you're in for
something more serious and scary, this is not it.
Review By: AnthroFred
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