The Seventh Day

"God help us."

2021 1h 27m EN

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5.2

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13%

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METACRITIC

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4.6

IMDB

★5.2TMDB · 302🥫13%Rotten Tomatoes●43Metacritic★4.6IMDB · 5,989

Horror

Synopsis

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A renowned exorcist 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.

“God help us.”

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Cast

Guy Pearce
Father Peter
Vadhir Derbez
Father Daniel
Stephen Lang
Archbishop
Brady Jenness
Charlie Giroux
Robin Bartlett
Helen
Keith David
Father Louis
Chris Galust
Young Peter
Acoryé White
George

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Justin P. Lange
Writers: Justin P. Lange
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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87 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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Released 5 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Justin P. Lange, shot by Nick Remy Matthews. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Gavin Brivik. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Josh Ethier shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Guy Pearce and Vadhir Derbez and Stephen Lang carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "God help us.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Justin P. Lange directs. Nick Remy Matthews behind the camera. Gavin Brivik scores. Josh Ethier cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

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187 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 5 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
4Directed by Justin P. Lange, shot by Nick Remy Matthews. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Gavin Brivik. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Josh Ethier shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Guy Pearce and Vadhir Derbez and Stephen Lang carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "God help us.".
9IMDB entry: tt11263022 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Nick Remy Matthews
Original score: Gavin Brivik
Editing: Josh Ethier
Costume design: Charlotte Golden
Makeup / hair: Sierra Russell
Sound: Richard Adrian
Stunt coordinator: Freddie Poole
Runtime: 87 min · 1h 27m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Seventh Day (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes: 13% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 43/100
IMDB rating: 4.6/10 · 5,989 votes
MPAA: R

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tmdb280390232022-08-28
★ 1/10
The short way to describe The Seventh Day is ‘The Exorcist's Training Day’. Father Peter Costello (Guy Pearce) is a cynical, weathered veteran who has seen it all and plays by his own rules. Father Daniel García (Vadhir Derbez) is a wunderkind fresh out of the academy who will have to forget everything he has learned about the rite of exorcism. Both walk the city streets as some sort of 'undercover priests'. Like Father McGruder in Braindead, they kick arse for the Lord. This material is rife with comedic potential (I’m reminded of Monty Python's Flying Circus’s Bishop sketch); it's a shame writer/director Justin P. Lange takes it so seriously. That there isn't a scene where Costello (a surname so closely associated with comedy that it took all of Jack Nicholson's gravitas to make it work in The Departed) and Garcia do a good priest/bad priest routine in the middle of an exorcism, or one in which the archbishop (Stephen Lang) asks for their bibles and holy water vials and takes them off the case, is simply unforgivable. At the same time, Lange exhibits a fundamental ignorance of his movie’s subject matter. If the devil's greatest trick is convincing the world he doesn't exist, here he pulls something even trickier, hiding in the last place they would look for him: inside an exorcist. If Lange had bothered to do some research, he would know that “If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then shall his kingdom stand?” (Matthew 12:26). Now, the devil's plan is to put demons into bodies and not the other way around, but how could he keep up the charade of being an expert exorcist without casting out some of his brethren from time to time?

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