Seventh Moon (2009) Poster, Synopsis, Raw Review and Trailer

October 7, 2009 / 2729

SEVENTH MOON SYNOPSIS A romantic trip to China turns into a lunar nightmare for a pair of happy newlyweds when their taxi driver ditches them in a remote village, and the locals offer them up as sacrifices for the menacing moon creatures that return to Earth annually to replenish their ranks. According to Chinese legend, the dead return to Earth on the seventh month of the lunar year, when the moon glows full in the night sky. America-born Yul (Tim Chiou) and his new wife Melissa (Amy Smart) had just arrived in China to meet Yul’s family when their idyllic getaway takes a sudden turn for the worse. When night falls and their tour guide leaves them stranded in a darkened, boarded-up village, Yul and Amy quickly realize that this wasn’t a planned stop. Once a year, the lunar creatures return to Earth in search of a sacrifice. Yul and Amy have just been offered up, and now in order to avoid being assimilated into the collective that pursues them through the darkened forest, they will have to survive until the morning light casts the frightful beasts back to the moon for another year.

RAW REVIEW OF REVIEWER

One Sentence: Shaky blurry moon demons chase Amy Smart through rural China.

Ok, lets put a white girl, a Chinese American, in Rural China at night and shake the camera a bunch and make it so you can’t see much of anything for an hour and a half. This is Seventh Moon. A new American horror movie based in China that is not like all those other Asian horror movies. Well not really, there is still some old traditional scary monster thingy chasing an American girl.

I was excited about this one, I like Amy Smart, and I am more of the main stream type of horror guy and this movie felt like one of those. Which I still think it is probably more of that mainstream horror, the movie still has to be good and well Seventh Moon was all right at best. The story was forced, the people in the movie were not too likeable, or you really didn’t care about them, and you were not too sure what was going on at first. You eventaully got what was going on, but the time leading up to that, didn’t really scare or impress, and by the time we got there, I didn’t care too much anymore.

The other problem with this movie was it was blurry, shakey cam, hard to see through a bunch of grass or super low light and so most of the movie relies on this thing of not being able to see and not an actual scary movie to scare you. There were some scary jumpy parts that made me jump and they wored, but it was few and far between and not really that well executed, more like cheap thrills compared to quality fear. In the end one of the movies I was most excited about at Fantastic Fest, I didn’t think was that great, and I really would not reccomend it for rental or theater viewing.