7 Days (2010)
AKA: Les 7 Jours du Talion
Directed by: Daniel Grou
Starring: Claude Legault (Hamel), Martin Dubreuil (Lemaire), Fanny Mallette (Sylvie Hamel), Remy Girard (Det. Mercure), Rose-Marie Coallier (Jasmine Hamel)
Country: Canada
Language: French (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:50:55
Genres: Captivity-Kidnapping, Religion, Gruesome, Old-Young, Family, Violence against Men, Revenge, Torture
Plot – Spoilers:
The young daughter of a successful surgeon Hamel is raped and murdered while out distributing invitations to her upcoming birthday party. Though the killer is found within a week, Hamel just can’t get over the brutal loss, especially when he feels there was an outside chance he might have been able to prevent it.
So before the killer Lemaire can be produced in court, Hamel decides that justice served by the law is just not good enough…
7 days is a wonderfully exhausting experience in revenge and its effects on the perpetrator and throws up confusing questions about morals and principles.
I read the book and watched the film. Both of them were good. I would recommend the book to anyone who likes the film. There was one key plot they left out of the film that involved a dog. This had a big influenced on Bruno actions. I can see why they would not want to include a scene that involves animal cruelty. The guy fucked up the dog.
If he’d said when asked at the endDo
‘Do you have any regrets for your actions Dr.HameI?
..A more fitting ending would be him answering with the gun to his own head
Je n’ai pas de regrets…bang and blow his own head off in front of the cops.! 😉
that bitch deserved that punch
There is another movie same like this but the dad just surgery the guy, who raped his daughter, to become a woman.
Really enjoyed watching this. Only complaint I have is that there weren’t any creative torture methods. Bro’s a surgeon. Was expecting to see some crazy shit. Besides that, great film!
Sad, horrific, brilliant. A nightmare no one can wake up from. This has to be one of the top films on the site.
loved it
Contre-enquête (2007) is way better
I expected a better movie 🙂 Disappointing
BIG TIME SPOILERS IN THIS COMMENT:
The production, filming, editing, and directing are top notch. There is no music in the movie whatsoever which really benefits the film.
It starts out very strong with a horrific brutal murder. When Dr. Hamel sees the creep that killed his 7 year old daughter on the news you can feel the hate. The kidnapping of the perp is brilliant and when Hamel gets him to the torture room there is high expectations. The torture is good at first. Then Hamel turns in to a wishy-washy republican and can’t pull the trigger at the moment of truth like a cold-hearted democrat would. We all saw what the creep did to his daughter then Hamel goes soft on the perp? Plus the scene when he kidnaps another victim’s mother should have stayed on the cutting room floor (although I kind of like that part too).
Wait a minute. Another way of looking at it is that Hamel let the creep live with no balls and a new asshole in his stomach, which is probably the worst torture of all. This movie is great. 5 stars.
Rather disappointing… canadians were so creative with coming up with war crimes in ww1 but couldn’t come up with anything better to torture a fucking murderer pedo rapist?? And he couldn’t even kill him in the end, fuck this, was alright for the 1st 50-60 min but then it’s shit.
Why the women with picture avatars and commemts in this website look like bar whores or skanks and try to behave like pro-critics all the time. This place attracts the wrong kind of people
This movie never gets old. I could watch it over and over definitely on my top 15 list. My only complaint is that I wanted more torture he’s a surgeon for Christ’s sake get creative. I wanted teeth pulling, the ripping off of finger and toe nails, his lips cut off, branding with a hot iron and ass sewn closed since the new asshole was put elsewhere lol only makes sense
he should have shitted on a plate and gave it to that animal or dog food or cat food XD
hi.best film for watching
Good movie but ending was bad and useless
Great movie, could of used longer torture scenes. Overall a strong 4.5
Good movie, recommend the watch but not if you are looking for torture porn…
Is really hard to stomach but less for the torture scenes and more by the pain and suffering from the father (great actor). The end felt a bit disappointing (I guess everybody wanted things to go extreme) but nonetheless nice movie!
Beautiful… but I have to agree with everyone else here, there could be so much more pain inflicted. also rape penalties are extremely low worldwide
Some elements are akin to the film titled ‘Prisoners’, another of Villeneuve’s pièce de résistance. It features Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman, both actors were impetuously and exceptionally absorbing, confronting and unrestrained performances.
everything about this movie is just very amazing, respect
Should’ve started by chopping off his sick lil weener ????
Brutal
Dans le genre, et en bien plus haletant je trouve; il y a “la jeune fille et la mort” (titre de Schubert) avec Sigourney Weaver et Ben Kingsley. C’est l’histoire d’une femme, traumatisée par les tortures infligées durant son incarcération pendant la guerre en Amérique du sud, elle vit recluse avec de son mari. Ils sont vraiment au milieu de nul part. Un soir, son mari fait venir à la maison un type qui à eu un problème de voiture. Elle, d’une autre pièce, entend la voix du mec, et ai persuadée qu’il s’agit de son bourreau de l’époque. Son mari ne l’a croit pas, le mec ne comprend rien… Et ça part dans tous les sens. Vraiment pour ceux qui ne l’ont pas vu, regardez le! Collabo, bourreau ou juste victime? (thank traductor) In the genre, and much more breathless I find; there is “the young girl and death” (title of Schubert) with Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley. It is the story of a woman, traumatized by the torture inflicted during her incarceration during the war in South America, she lives as a recluse with her husband. They really are in the middle of nowhere. One evening, her husband calls a guy home who has had a car problem. She, from another room, hears the voice of the guy, and I persuaded that it is about his executioner of the time. Her husband didn’t believe her, the guy doesn’t understand anything… And it goes all over the place. Really… Read more »
A good revenge film that focuses on the morals of seeking revenge and how it effects you. Solid, but nothing exceptional and (imo) other revenge films have done it better. Fantastic revenge films on EUM to watch being Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and I Saw The Devil. This film, 3.5/5 sledge hammers
It was good
Thank you effedupmovies moderators for you hard work to bring these original good movies ????
Amazing film. Now I may be no movie expert or what have you but I am a masochist and that chain scene was pretty epic. Not to mention if you’ve ever been raped or some one you love has been raped and you only dream about the opportunity to retaliate this will most certainly is an orgasm waiting to happen for you so please enjoy!
I gave it a 5-star, for the pace of the movie, for no melodramatic music or exaggerated emotional expressions… I just think that the victim’s father is sloppy & lenient in punishing the criminal, he could’ve finished him off but his emotions got the best of him…When the rapist is released from the prison one day, he’s going to exact revenge on the wife, and he still has his hands to molest children, the father should’ve amputated the rapist’s arms as well.
Yeap.. good.. not Wow great but a good watch and definitely a moral compass point check for any parent or decent human being . Enjoyed it
I didn’t think this movie deserved 4.5, I would give it 3 stars at best. Still really appeciate you at
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This movie is very similar to a the skin I live in 2011
This reminds me of another film I’ve seen. It was about these parents whose daughter was raped and killed. Both of them decide to take revenge against the killer and capture him while the prison is transporting him. They run the prison van off the road, and find two prisoners inside. One of them was arrested for some white-collar crime like tax evasion, and the other was their daughter’s killer. They take the person they think is the killer to a house in the woods and torture him for around a week. In the end, they find out that they caught the wrong person. They were torturing the white-collar criminal. Does this film sound familiar to anyone? I think cannot think of the name to save my life.
I was really looking forward to seeing this pedophile suffer but this is just vanilla.
Another great French movie. Love these revenge type films of which there are plenty but this one was better than others, it felt more real and suspenseful. Recently watched ”Hate Crime” (also on this site) and thought it was pretty tame considering all the controversy about it. In other words it was weak as piss. Wanted to leave a comment on it only to find the comment section shut down due to some dickwads tossing around racist shit and abusing other commenters and rightly so.
Great movie. One of my favorite parts of the movie is the very last word Dr. Hamel says at the end. Very well acted, no music at all (which adds to the realism) but a very sad movie. Within the first 12 minutes I burst in to tears and I did so at the end too.
Even though he raped and murdered a little girl it’s still hard to watch.
Great movie!
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Fantastic film!
Incredible movie, so sad
People who watch this film often disregard the aftermath of Dr. Hamels actions. He is going to be tried and convicted, not just for kidnapping Lemaire, but also the mother of the other victim. Not to mention the attempted murder, assault, and to a lesser extent breaking and entering and destruction of property. Lemaire will probably have his sentence severely reduced due to the pain he suffered due to the failure of the justice system. All in all, the good doctor did more harm than good in the long run in that he suffers, the mother is traumatized, his wife is alone, and the killer gets off easy. That being said, it is arguable that the colostomy evens the score between Hamel and Lemaire. But not for the rest.
Certainly not for the girl.
Disappointing and not convincing. Most grieving parents in his situation would have been much more creative and made each of those 7 days count. No remorse. No pity.
Good film and fantastic acting sad story
I think that the concept is great and has a perfect actors to do it, but… they might be more creative and did more things at the torture, is the only thing that i can call bad in this film.
This movie has always stuck with me. Seen it three times now. Perfect for this site. Highly recommended. [SPOILER] Watching him read what that medicine is about to do him, then seeing his terrified face just go slack… and the single tear that falls down his numb face as his insides are violated – Jesus, it gives me chills just thinking about it. It really makes you think about morality and revenge.
Good, worth watching.
Good.
It was good. Great performances, but the movie overall, I personally did not feel anything about it was amazing.
absolutely amazing film. I haven’t been this emotionally invested in something that could be considered a horror movie before. thank you effedupmovies