To me, this movie is perfection.

So much average

A Masterpiece!

Blistering performances.

Following the tragic death of their young son, Ellen(Amanda Plummer)and her husband Martin(Shawn Pertwee)search for a new life and move into an old two story house in the country. Eerie things begin happening to Ellen; she sees cryptic visions of her own death. Keeping this to herself is torture and the warnings progressively get more threatening. The visions may actually be a binder between her own death and deep dark secrets of the old house. Time keeps ticking away and there is an urgency for if the warnings are true...Ellen only has a very few days to live. A chilling methodical madness. Supporting cast features: Nick Brimble, Sean Chapman, Chris Barnes and Renee Ackermann. Manifistations of grief are not often taken lightly.

1)The child's death borrows from an old Canadian movie starring Mia Farrow and Keir Dullea "full circle" (Richard Loncraine,1977)2)The script is a poor man's "the shining",complete with writer going crazy.3)The Amanda Plummer/Sean Pertwee pair is a pale Shelley Duvall/Jack Nicholson imitation.4)The ending,dealing one more time with money and success is sheer bad taste.5)The end of the spooky mansion is a " fall of the house of Usher" rip-off 6)The trick of the demon with a child's face has been used and used and used again.7)Since the heroine has got only seven days to live,let's call it a day.Even God had a rest on the eighth one.

~Spoiler~ I applaud 7 Days to Live. I don't applaud it for being a clone of The Shining, but for the efforts behind this film. It's the story of a writer and his wife who move into a haunted house to get away from everything and eventually he is driven mad. And the house, of course, has been built over a mass grave. That's The Shining comparison and the cliched bit. But it does generate its own genuinely creepy moments. The opening scene is bone chilling and will have you hooked from the start. Also, Sean Pertwee doing his best Jack Nicholson is reason enough to see the movie. With 7 Days, Pertwee has done two great horror movies recently (if you haven't seen Dog Soldiers I suggest you do so). Another familiar face is Sean Chapman...that's right, Frank Cotton in the flesh. I didn't fully recognize him until there was a scene with Chapman in it that mirrored Hellraiser (the moving furniture/bloody hand scene). It's too bad the hellraising actor didn't have a bigger part though. By the end of the film, you should recognize a few more horror movies stitched in here but it's all a bit of foreign fun. 7 Days to Live is worth catching if you enjoy the films in between the Hollywood hype and the direct-to-video garbage.

I loved this movie. Both Sean Pertwee and Amanda Plummer were great in it. The whole movie was very chilling. Great movie to watch on a cold, lonely night at home. That is what I did. Sean is great as a a man pushed over the edge and Amanda is very good as his freaked out wife and the main character. Check it out.....you'll like it, too!