30 Days to Die

This is one of the weirdest movies I've seen in a bit. I seen this under the title 7 In The Torture Chamber which for sure was a marketing scam as the cover for 30 Days To Die looks kind of plain. The movie is about a girl getting adjusted to a rehabilitation center that happens to be called Crystal Lake Treatment Center and there happens to be a killer on the loose.

The flick is weird because right at the beginning the killer is shown ripping a face off then leaving his trademark infinity symbol drawn on the body which makes him known as the Infinity Killer. Then that's the last we see of him for almost an hour as the story concentrates on the girls in rehab. The lead gets killed 50 minutes in! It's almost like one buddy wanted to do a Girl, Interrupted story while the other friend wanted to do a Friday The 13th homage flick. They decided to pool their money together and do one film. However the Friday The 13th friend only had 1/3 of the money so that is how much film he got.

So for only fifteen minutes you get carnage action with the serial killer wearing a Ronald Reagan mask. The production quality was crap. The camera could never keep focused. A few blurred lines were crossed. The sound was all over the place.

I did like the twist ending which is why I gave it some points but other than that this thing is a mess.

Of course I had never heard about this 2009 horror movie titled "30 Days to Die" prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2025. And given my love of all things horror, and with this apparently being a slasher horror movie, of course I opted to give director Griff Furst's 2009 movie a chance.

But writers John Case, Griff Furst and Marc Sheffler put together an insanely bland and boring script. There was nothing interesting happening in the movie, except for the narrative apparently taking place at a campsite at Crystal Lake. Now, whether it was supposed to be an homage to the "Friday the 13th" franchise, or if the writers thought that the movie would actually take place in the same universe and at the same lake, I have no idea. Nor do I actually care, because the contents of the script for "30 Days to Die" was pointless and boring.

I was, of course, not familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. And while that is usually something I do enjoy when I sit down to watch a movie, it was clear that the actresses and actors in this movie were struggling with the fact of having nothing to work with from the script and character gallery.

Visually then you're not in for anything outstanding, memorable or mentionable here.

Would I recommend you to throw away 78 minutes on watching "30 Days to Die"? No, don't bother with this movie.

My rating of director Griff Furst's 2009 movie "30 Days to Die" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

This was one of the worst movies i ever saw. Amateurish and not even worth to be released on BluRay. How should it: It was shot with a video cam that does not even catch focus all the time, the tone comes from the camera itself and if it would be at least promoted as an amateur movie, it would be okay. There are so many mistakes but you get distracted by the bad acting anyway. As I said: as a movie done by hobby filmmakers one can show or watch it on private screenings and it might be "fun", cause you know the makers. As a DVD/BluRay release it is a mess and a lie to the one who falls for the description. Shame on me, but I was one of them!