A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.... (Full plot summary below)
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A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.
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| The GuardianLeslie FelperinWriter-director Justin P Lange finds a satisfying way to update the possession-exorcist theme for a new generation grown wary of the Catholic church’s old ways, particularly in the wake of the abuse scandals that have shredded the clergy’s credibility in recent years. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThe movie is diverting enough when it flirts with clerical politics, and that made me think it might be cool to make an exorcist film that dramatized the true-life ins and outs of the Catholic Church’s relationship to exorcism. There’s a major story there, and it could fuel a heady thriller. But The Seventh Day, having established Father Peter as a new kind of exorcist renegade, soon gets down to business as usual. |
| RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyThe whole experience feels like a generic inventory of recognizable tropes—the possessed child, the creepy old woman, the deeply-concerned priests, and the Ouija board are all here. Except, the cumulative fear bizarrely fizzles before it reaches something significant or emotionally meaningful. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerWho do you cast when you've got a mid-tier supernatural thriller that needs a low-key but charismatic, talented but not showboaty, and recognizable actor to play one of the leads? Guy Pearce, of course, and without him under Peter's decidedly unpriestly demeanor then middling supernatural chiller The Seventh Day would barely raise a flutter of attention, never mind a spirit. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe movie is too ponderous and dry — neither endearingly trashy nor effectively scary. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe failures pile up quickly after that promising first act and The Seventh Day doesn’t hold the interest past day two |
| User ReviewJLauRecently-trained priest with an interest in exorcism is taken under the wing of a very successful, if disillusioned, exorcist priest who turns out, in fact, to have been possessed himself since his first exorcism. |
| User ReviewMauro_Lanari(Mauro Lanari) A B movie that dares to escape the banal horror of "The Conjuring" saga to return to the unresolved points of the omnipervasiveness of evil (the famous thesis of Hanna Arendt was refuted by Milgram with his experiment). 3rd millennium and the Pauline "mysterium iniquitatis" of 2 Thessalonians 2:7, as well as Boethius (430) and Leibniz (1710), still ask in vain: "si Deus non est, unde bonum?". Among the blockbusters one has to go back no less than "Seven/Se7en" (Fincher 1995) to relive similar emotions. |
| User Reviewmateuszljust fine, although not scary at all :( maybe I did not catch something but title has almost nothing to do with the movie itselft |
