The Seventh Day

Name: The Seventh Day
Genre: Horror
Released: March 26, 2021
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Ben Hicks, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Guy Pearce, Hannah Alline, Heath Freeman

2021

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: March 26, 2021 | R

Starring: Ben Hicks, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Guy Pearce, Hannah Alline, Heath Freeman, Keith David, Robin Bartlett, Stephen Lang, Tristan Riggs, Vadhir Derbez

Summary: A renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.

Director: Justin P. Lange

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 87 min

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The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Apr 22, 2021

Writer-director Justin P Lange finds a satisfying way to update the possession-exorcist theme for a new generation grown wary of the Catholic church’s old ways, particularly in the wake of the abuse scandals that have shredded the clergy’s credibility in recent years. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Mar 26, 2021

The whole experience feels like a generic inventory of recognizable tropes—the possessed child, the creepy old woman, the deeply-concerned priests, and the Ouija board are all here. Except, the cumulative fear bizarrely fizzles before it reaches something significant or emotionally meaningful. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 26, 2021

The movie is diverting enough when it flirts with clerical politics, and that made me think it might be cool to make an exorcist film that dramatized the true-life ins and outs of the Catholic Church’s relationship to exorcism. There’s a major story there, and it could fuel a heady thriller. But The Seventh Day, having established Father Peter as a new kind of exorcist renegade, soon gets down to business as usual. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 25, 2021

The movie is too ponderous and dry — neither endearingly trashy nor effectively scary. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Mar 29, 2021

Who do you cast when you've got a mid-tier supernatural thriller that needs a low-key but charismatic, talented but not showboaty, and recognizable actor to play one of the leads? Guy Pearce, of course, and without him under Peter's decidedly unpriestly demeanor then middling supernatural chiller The Seventh Day would barely raise a flutter of attention, never mind a spirit. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 25, 2021

The failures pile up quickly after that promising first act and The Seventh Day doesn’t hold the interest past day two Read full review

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JLau

Sep 12, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Recently-trained priest with an interest in exorcism is taken under the wing of a very successful, if disillusioned, exorcist priest who turns out, in fact, to have been possessed himself since his first exorcism.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Sep 14, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
A B movie that dares to escape the banal horror of "The Conjuring" saga to return to the unresolved points of the omnipervasiveness of evil (the famous thesis of Hanna Arendt was refuted by Milgram with his experiment). 3rd millennium and the Pauline "mysterium iniquitatis" of(Mauro Lanari)
A B movie that dares to escape the banal horror of "The Conjuring" saga to return to the unresolved points of the omnipervasiveness of evil (the famous thesis of Hanna Arendt was refuted by Milgram with his experiment). 3rd millennium and the Pauline "mysterium iniquitatis" of 2 Thessalonians 2:7, as well as Boethius (430) and Leibniz (1710), still ask in vain: "si Deus non est, unde bonum?". Among the blockbusters one has to go back no less than "Seven/Se7en" (Fincher 1995) to relive similar emotions.… Expand

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mateuszl

Aug 31, 2021

just fine, although not scary at all :(
maybe I did not catch something but title has almost nothing to do with the movie itselft

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