I can add little to the general view that this sure is a murky and shaky visual experience, and so there is no real point in watching a film in which a lot happens that you cannot see much beyond flashes of two characters running about trying to escape out of focus wraiths, which is not exactly what I bargain for when I sit down to view a horror film. As such, this is not an effective fright film, just an increasingly frustrating and annoying one. In terms of the positives, it is interesting to see a wider cultural take on the supernatural, and the Chinese Ghost Festival is genuinely interesting, so it is just a shame that all of the potential to be unique is cast aside in favour of a cinematographic style that looks as if the camera operator was filming the action from atop a rollercoaster, at night. Furthermore, given that the film is not a found footage escapade, the visual documentary style is all the more strange. It might be argued that it is artistic and creative to give a supernatural drama a vérité sheen, but the subject matter does not merit such an approach and only serves to harm it as a horror film in which you cannot really see anything (or watch without getting a motion sickness headache) is not going to produce many scares or shocks. However, there is one point of intrigue that is unfortunately not shown by the director, and that is the crucial and heartfelt moment when Melissa tries to convincingly explain to everyone back in the USA that her missing husband has vanished forever because he is now a ghost who will periodically terrorise villagers if they do not sufficiently appease him and his ghostly friends with suitable offerings. Now that is a scene I would have liked to have seen, even if it was shot in the shakiest of shaky styles.

SEVENTH MOON is another missed opportunity from director Eduardo Sanchez, the man who brought us THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT back in 1999. It's quickly becoming obvious that Sanchez was a one-hit wonder and his subsequent movies have been forgettable at best. This is the worst I've seen from him, a stupid, all but plotless exercise in would-be scares, in which a miscast Amy Smart and her husband head off to China during the 'hungry ghost' festival. They encounter spirits and malignant beings while there, but the whole thing is shot in near pitch blackness so more often than not you have no idea what's going on. It's just two actors, a camera, and jumps here and there. Smart's incessant screaming becomes wearisome early on and the film just goes on and on and on without ending, so it's a good cure for insomnia. I'm afraid I hated every minute of it.

People who are trashing this movie just aren't getting' it. This is a very effective and well thought out horror movie. It has an exotic locale with a strange local folklore that becomes too real for a newlywed couple. Eduardo Sanchez who co-helmed 'The Blair Witch Project' directs and co-writes with James Nash. The couple is chased by ghosts that come to claim souls every 'Seventh Moon'. The ghosts are very creepy and you don't really get a good look at them (which makes them scarier) until the end. All the performances are strong and while there is excessive 'shaky cam' the movie is very well filmed, in low light, with strong art direction and very natural cinematography. It's was also great to see Amy Smart. She's very good in this. Like Sanchez's 'Exists' I found this to be a damn good, simple but intelligent and SCARY indie horror movie. Give it a watch.

Eduardo Sánchez, his name will always be remembered as the writer of Blair Witch Project. It was a hype it was frightening and scary even as no blood was used, still people watched under their bed for days after watching BWP. When the hype surrounding BWP was over all people involved in the project disappeared. Suddenly there was a new movie from Eduardo Sánchez after the failure BWP 2. Altered was the title but it flopped in some ways, still it was good. Now he deliver us this flick. Again in documentary style, you know, shaky and out of focus camera's. But this time the storyline is weak, some scene's are too long and be honest, we have seen it all before with all those remakes of Japanese ghost movies like The Grudge and others. It was never frightening, there isn't any blood, okay, used blood but no gore or anything else. When the driver disappears you immediately knows what his role is in the ghost world. I have seen better, more scary flicks about ghosts last year like End Of The Line, maybe Sánchez has reached the end of the line?