Dead 7

In DEAD 7, meth dealers become murderers, resulting in their being stalked and killed off by a mysterious avenger.

This is a Brain Damage production, so expectations must be lowered accordingly, if not abandoned altogether.

That said, this is far better than most of the sub-par sludge pumped out by BD. It makes the best of its nonexistent budget with loads of dreary atmosphere and lurking menace. There's a mineshaft that's actually ominous!

So, tread carefully, but this one's pretty good...

I dunno what the others watched, but this is pure nonsense.

I won't go into details, but who is we should root for? The gangstas have no redeeming quality, this is not Pumpkinhead, nor I spit on your Grave.

Then there is the problem of the deaf girl - the film at one point simply forgets she is supposed to be deaf! To the point she is making shouting conversations through walls!!!

She is also unbelievable as the killer, shown trying to bash open canned goods on rocks. She is cavemen-level simple. So how should I believe she does all that planning?

The gypsie voodoo is also coming from nowhere.

Finaly: there are soo much walking around in silence, I've watched this.in triple-speed mostly.

Like the other commenter I am shocked a movie of this quality came out of Brain Damage inc. I truly was not expecting much after the hoaky introduction from the Brain Damage spokesman with the spiked hair and leather jacket. Was even about ready to turn off the movie when the first 5 minutes were filming lizards in the desert. But what happened afterwards - while not Oscar material, was certainly better than expected. This is probably one of the best written slasher movies I have seen in a long time (Did that sentence really come from me?). Rarely has a slasher movie plot line interested me as much as this one. Most slashers as we all know rely on special effects and gore to sell movies, this one had little of quality of either, but relied instead on a somewhat original storyline, imagine my surprise. The characters of the Equinox siblings, were excellently written if mediocrely portrayed. Subtract a few dumb ass lines from the meth dealer's script and his character was right up there. The supporting staff needed help - but they were what I have come to expect from Brain Damage.

Anyone who wants a change of pace from the traditional slasher fare movie this is a definite must-see - just fast forward whenever you see a dude with spiky hair.

DEAD 7 has the appearance of having been made by a bunch of friends (and possibly in their backyards!), but I found it to be fairly original and fun. I assume the director/writer was going for some "tongue-in-cheek," and if so, he succeeded. The female leads are sexy; the killings pretty original; and the story, though not completely original (what horror movie is, these days?), made me keep watching. Oh, yeah -- and the girl who plays this woods/witch (Delia Copold) is downright freaky! Overall -- pretty well-done on clearly a nothing budget. The filmmakers must have spent at least a little bit on SFX. And the cast, on the whole, is buy-able. Check out the cameo by the writer/director Clancy as a sheriff.

After an incongruous Ed Wood Jr. Prelude, diabolically delivered by an enervating Deryck Whibley dweeb-a-like affecting a 'scary voice' no less abjectly than Christian Bale's egregious cannibal corpse impression, the micro-budgeted murder-fest 'Dead 7' (2000) rapidly escalates to the goodies in earnest as after so baleful an intro, as the song says, the only way is 7 Up! Greatly improving upon this piffle-laden interlude writer/director Garrett Clancey's laudably Gung ho backwoods stoner-slasher soon provides ample, amoral thrill-spillage for the more forgiving Fred Olen Ray-orientated, high-grue, low-res bad movie, splatter-minded, celluloid junk monkey.

The film's murderous miasma spirals skeevily around the illicit pharmaceutical machinations of monstrous skell Brownley Dawkins (Joe Myles) whose distempered white trash acting is straight out of H. G Lewis and, quite frankly, is all the better for it. After a most axe-ellently grisly, no less bloody vengeance-inspiring murder, all those directly or indirectly involved in sadistic dope-dealer Dawkins and his equally onerous sidekick Franky Desisto's desperately ill conceived act soon fall prey to this especially perspicacious P. O. V maniac!

While Clancey's blissfully boorish slasher is frequently hamstrung by its too-modest budget as both the sound design and make-up FX are rather rudimentary affairs at best, but narrative interest is rigorously maintained via an amusingly fly-blown clutch of hysterical performances, especially distracting is the greatly wronged sister Venus Equinox (Delia Copold) unapologetically remaining in full 'Spider Baby' mode for the duration, and bemusedly watching tweaker-twitchy Joe Myles gracelessly turning into a bargain bucket Don Stroud is sure to be an esoteric delight for all who might willingly succumb to his singularly elusive charms, and the cheapo film's gleefully gooey climax has all the creaky-crawly, second-hand Sturm und Drang of B-movie iconoclast Don Dohler's immortal classic 'Fiend'. The Babe-soaked, beer-choked, brain-dead backwoods slasher 'Dead 7', protuberant warts an' all, is an altogether asinine, sinfully sublime, terrifically trashy, terminally tasteless, no-budget, blood-spurtingly silly S. O. V gem!