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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.

OK, it does sort of remind you of The Shining, and you can find bits of other films here, but are there any truly new ideas today? Very few, I am afraid, so let's see what Sebastian Niemann does in his first feature film. He won an award for his first film, a short.

I thought that Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction, The Fisher King) did a really good job as someone who was slowly going crazy with those daily reminders of her impending death.

Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Renaissance) did an excellent job of channeling Jack Nicholson.

The rest of the cast was support, and there was, of course, the requisite special effects to give the film a great ending. It seemed to drag in the middle, but you didn't dare leave until you saw what was going to happen.

I have to say that I thought this was a British film when Pertwee said he "...needed to take a fag break." I was surprised that it was German. I don't remember fags in Germany.

This movie is horrible! It's so boring that you will fall asleep within 5 minutes! The actors can't act....... +they look horrible! The only good thing was the plot, but the movie was so poorly made that even the plot wasn't able to save it.

Amanda Plummer (daughter of Christopher Plummer and the delightful Tammy Grimes) stars as the wife of writer (Sean Pertwee, son of Dr. Who's Jon Pertwee) who moves with her husband to a remote mansion - apparently in Australia, despite a largely English cast - to find rest and healing after the death of their son. Instead, the house to which they move has a history of occupation by people who go mad and die mysteriously. They begin to be affected, which predictably takes a toll on their relationship. In particular, the wife receives daily warnings that she has only a declining number of days to live - hence the title. Not bad - six stars.

Although most ideas are lifted from other horror flicks, this European movie produces quite a few jumpy scares. Something you should watch on your own in a dark and stormy night. Make sure you have a torch next to you, in case a fuse blows...