Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Lack of good storyline.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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.

A group of strangers find themselves stranded following a tour bus accident. They seek shelter in an old house that turns out to be haunted. Naturally, they start to get picked off one by one. Director Kevin Carraway, who also co-wrote the trite and talky by-the-numbers script with Lawrence Sara, allows the blah and meandering story to unfold at a painfully sluggish pace, generates not a single iota of tension or spooky atmosphere, signposts the killer's identity well in advance, and trots out a numbing succession of groan-inducing tried'n'true horror clichés that include a mysterious ghost girl on the side of the road, the proverbial dark'n'stormy night, creepy reflections that suddenly pop up in mirrors, and, worst of all, folks wandering off by themselves so they can make for easy targets. The mostly sorry acting from the largely underwhelming cast doesn't help matters any: Val Kilmer seems dead on his feet and mumbles all his dialogue (plus he gets killed early in the action despite his prominent billing in the credits), Luke Goss proves to be a colossal drip, Rebecca Da Costa looks mighty fetching, but can't act for spit, and Christian Baha sports an indecipherable foreign accent that renders all of his lines borderline unintelligible. Ving Rhames tries hard as the enigmatic Jack, but even he can't surmount the poor writing and flat direction. But what really dooms this dud to outright crumminess is the fact that it's incredibly freaking dull. A hopelessly soporific stinker.

** SPOILER ALERT ** This film kind of started off okay but then took a major turn towards crapsville. It had almost every horror movie cliché and at the same time I'm sure the director stepped out for some milk and while he was out a backwards child took over for a while until the director returned and did the last 10 minutes of the film. The plot was all over the place and at times it seemed like they were taking requests on how the plot should go. The acting left a lot to be desired too, not the best. Val Kilmer and Ving Rhames must have owed somebody big time to be in this movie, because it can't have been for the money or the experience. ** SPOILER ALERT ** The gist of the film is that they all are part of the killings as the killer is re-incarnated as one of them. But who you say? Well to save you time and money, it was Courtney. The end. So I give this a 1 out of 10.

There seems to have been some confusion about the meaning of the title to this film, with viewers quite understandably (but wrongly) assuming that it somehow relates to a sub-zero temperature. My understanding is that the number refers to the seven people that we see at the beginning of the film—the six people in the van, and the cashier at the garage—and that the word 'below' alludes to the perpetual 'hell' in which they are trapped, which in this instance is an eternity in the presence of Ving Rhames and Val Kilmer as they give possibly the worst performances of their careers.Not that Rhames and Kilmer are the only ones at fault in this unmitigated supernatural disaster: the majority of the blame must go to writer/director Kevin Carraway, who clearly had no idea how to develop his script beyond its trite 'we're all doomed to repeat our torment forever' initial concept, the result of which is an hour and a half of utter nonsense (filled with terrible characters and risible dialogue). If the driving force behind the whole film is unable to adequately explain what the hell is going on, then what chance do the cast have? And, consequently, what chance do the viewers have? Suffice to say that the film is incredibly dull, very frustrating and leaves many questions unanswered, the most obvious being 'How the hell did this garbage ever get made?'.N.B. Two of the prop newspapers have grammatical errors in their headlines; they couldn't even get that right!