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.

In the intro, a century ago, an adopted kid kills his entire family- the cheating husband, mother, two little sister, and the mother's aunt.In the present, 5 people are driving somewhere in a tour van. They include an jerk lawyer and his angry wife, a German physician, two brothers one of them which is a medical student. They stop at a gas station and meet the attendant there, some Latin girl with a brutally thick accent. When they're back on the road, they start seeing the mother from the intro standing by the road. When the driver tries to avoid her he crashes into a tree killing himself. A friendly man shows up who offers to take them to his house. There's no cell phone reception of course, and he won't take them to a distant hospital nor to the gas station because he keeps warning that a storm is coming.At his house he acts all weird. The lawyer who's got a head injury starts having visions and warns everyone that if they don't leave they'll die. There are pictures of the family from the intro all over the house. One of the brother decides to drive to the gas station and runs into the attendant. Her car broke down, the roads are closed so he takes her back to the guy's home. Then the lawyer suddenly is dead. Everyone starts freaking out. The storm finally arrives. The car's wires suddenly are cut. So they're stuck there with their visions and fears. Now the physician's throat is slashed. The surviving four decide to walk into the woods in dense fog. They do what any reasonable person would do- go separate ways. When they meet up again the guy shows up and things are revealed, including what the intro has to do with anything.7 Below is a remarkably boring and tedious movie. From the viewer's perspective this movie is completely aimless. For a long while this movie goes nowhere it doesn't even try to give you a hint about where it's going. The ghost aspect is minimized to such an extent that it doesn't even seem to be a ghost story. A ghost story ought to at least try to be scary. This movie doesn't even bother. The lawyer is the more interesting and funny character but he's eliminated far too early on leaving us with a bunch of dull characters doing silly things.I'm going to say that the direction is good, technically speaking but as the director is also the writer he's not blameless. In fact he should have known how to advance the story better. When the answers and twists finally arrive you've pretty much given up on the movie. I'll give them one things though, the explanation is somewhat unusual, even courageous, but it's just not well told. Overall this movie is a surprising failure, surprising because they had the budget, the cast, the equipment and technical know-how but they weren't able to come up with a compelling story and tell it well.

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.