Watching Nine Lives truly has a formula and storyline that is unique. I found myself wondering how the characters were going to get out of this crazy curse. The dialog was in typical horror movie fashion, and gave a bit of a cheesy unrealistic vibe. Some of the acting is quite frankly laughable. The standouts are Ameila Warner and David Nicolle who give the most emotion filled and honest performances. The biggest flaw is heiress Paris Hilton, it's not that she's a bad actress per-say, but I feel like the only reason she was cast is because she is so widely recognized. Her picture is front and center in the poster and yet, she is the first victim, dying in the first 30 or so minutes. I find that very unfair to the above mentioned standouts who are clearly the main focus in this movie.Camera work, lighting, special effects are all casualties to the low-budget that this movie had to work with, which the storyline strongly needed.Overall, I recommend that if you are a Paris Hilton fan and want to see this, it is better to rent it or else you are wasting you money. It is decent, not as bad as I expected honestly, I think it would have been much better sans-Paris (or at least not make her the center of the poster, which is almost like false advertising) and with a bigger budget.

This movie was terrible, but I enjoyed myself. Because it is unintentionally HILARIOUS!!! I'm going to list all of the things I loved, in no particular order. The things that made me laugh hysterically. If you've seen it, you'll probably know what I mean, and if not, you'll just have to see for yourself1.The pointless handoff of the cell phone by Paris to the other chick. "Is this yours?" *holds phone like she's doing an ad for Motorolla* 2.Paris making a line like "you're scaring me" sound like "boo hoo hoo". 3.The amazing way that the main girl figures out what is going on so exactly and so quickly, without any real direct evidence. 4.The scene where the med student guy thinks his dying girl was killed, he's all sad, then her eyes open, and he stabs her as if to say "Oh well". And it all happens in less time than it takes to read that. 5.Why was that guy in the bathroom for 45 minutes. It's like the writer saw that in another movie and just HAD to have it in their story too. Even if it didn't make sense. 6.Of course, the ridiculous voice over at the end. 7.The Scottish guy sets the book on fire, and then throws it in the POURING RAIN!!! 8.The Scottish guy just hangs out at the house after all of his friends have been murdered, changes clothes, steps over his friends corpses like they are so much garbage, sits out on the porch and has a smoke. 9.Med student guy sits by the big window that seems to be just big enough for, say, a killer to crash through. 10.girl dying on couch- "I don't wanna die" med student- "You're gonna be fine. I'm gonna go try and make it through this snow and find help" amazingly intuitive girl- "You can't. The snow has made the roads too dangerous." med student- "She's gonna die if I don't" girl dying on couch- "what?" med student- "Shh. You're gonna be fine." (I'm paraphrasing the dialog of course, but that's like how it plays out)10 is enough I guess. Just avoid this movie unless you like MST3K type flicks.

If you like your movies with no plot, a very weak story and acting so poor is it's like being back in drama lessons at school then watch this.None of the characters are enjoyable and you just everybody to be killed off in the first 1/4 of an hour, just to put you out of your misery.Farmers shovel this on the land to make things grow and this film is that shovelling substance.The best thing about this DVD is that it prevents you from getting coffee stains on your living room table.

I've seen LOADS of slasher films in my time. I've also seen loads of low budget British films. This is the worst example of either that I've ever seen! First off, there was a HUGE picture of Paris Hilton on the cover. It said it was a horror film on the back of the box. "Wow! This could perhaps be a kitsch laugh" I thought as I went to the video store counter. How wrong I was.Paris is only in the film for 10 minutes - she's the first to die. Which leaves it to 8 really really terrible British actors to end up getting chopped up. To give you an idea how bad this is I have never seen any of these actors before or since - they haven't even been on the likes of The Bill of Hollyoaks. Oh! And they're all very posh! They're probably pals of the writer/director! The plot is so tedious that I had to fast forward through the majority if this film - even though it was only 80 minutes - because it was so flaming tedious! Steer clear viewers! It's not worth it!