Seventh Moon (2008)

Director:

Eduardo Sánchez

Writers:

Eduardo Sánchez (story)
Jamie Nash (story)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls...

Plot Keywords:

China | Legend | Blood | Betrayal | Car Crash

Cast

Dennis Chan	...	Ping
Tim Chiou	...	Yul
Amy Smart	...	Melissa

Directed by
Eduardo Sánchez

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jamie Nash		story
Eduardo Sánchez		story and screenplay

Produced by
Chen On Chu	....	line producer: Hong Kong
Matt Compton	....	producer
Robin Cowie	....	producer
Bob Eick	....	executive producer
Gregg Hale	....	producer
Ann Lu	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Tony Cora
Kent Sparling

Cinematography by
Wah-Chuen Lam

Film Editing by
Michael Cronin
Johnny Rice		(co-editor)

Casting by
Paul Palo
Linda Phillips-Palo

Production Design by
Yuet-nam Lau

Costume Design by
William Fung
Anna Roth

Makeup Department
Mike Elizalde	....	creature and makeup effects designer
Cass McClure	....	mud make up design: Spectral Motion

Production Management
On Lam	....	assistant unit production manager: Hong Kong

Art Department
Rob Bigwood	....	designer
Klaus Heesch	....	designer
Dan Provost	....	designer
Andrew White	....	set designer

Sound Department
Mark Berger	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brian Chumney	....	supervising assistant sound editor
Sean England	....	foley mixer
Judah Getz	....	adr mixer
Chris Gridley	....	supervising assistant sound editor
Samuel H. Hinckley	....	sound editor
Zach Martin	....	sound mix technician
Robert Shoup	....	supervising sound editor
Clint Smith	....	sound mix technician
Kent Sparling	....	re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Roland Blancaflor	....	makeup effects technician
Kevin Carter	....	special effects contact lenses
Mary Elizalde	....	CFO: Spectral Motion Inc.
Russell Lukich	....	special effects
Larry Odien	....	makeup effects supervisor: Spectral Motion
Brian Walsh	....	production supervisor: Spectral Motion Inc

Visual Effects by
Kristen Branan	....	head of production: Zoic Studios

Camera and Electrical Department
Joey Kan	....	digital technician

Editorial Department
George Koran	....	HD colorist

Other crew
Robin Myriah Hatcher	....	production staff
David Pollison	....	acquisitions for Ghost House Underground
Dan Karcher	....	website producer (uncredited)

Thanks
Dan Karcher	....	thanks
Joe Nagy	....	special thanks
Ben Rock	....	special thanks
Linda Wang	....	very special thanks

Production Companies

• Haxan Films

Distributors

• Ghosthouse Underground (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Rok Americas (2010) (Taiwan) (all media)
• Seventh Moon Partners

Special Effects

• Click 3X
• Spectral Motion (creature and makeup effects)

Other Companies

• InkTip  screenplay facilitation
• October Pictures  production service

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for language and violence/terror

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:16 | UK:15

Company:

Haxan Films

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Phelous & the Movies: Seventh Moon (#4.22)" (2012)

Hellish Honeymoon

In accordance with the Chinese Myth, on the full moon of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell open and the spirits of the dead are freed to roam among the living.

Melissa (Amy Smart) and her husband Yul (Tim Chiou) are spending their honeymoon in the month of the ghosts in China, where they intend to visit his relatives. They participate in the Senwun (Ghost Festival) during the day, where they drink a lot of booze, and their driver Ping (Dennis Chan) heads to Anxian when the nights falls. A couple of hours later, Ping parks his car and tells that he is lost. He asks the couple to wait for him in his car while he asks for directions in a small village in the countryside. One hour later, Melissa and Yul decide to seek out Ping in the village, and they see the houses closed with live offering and the locals saying something in Cantonese. Yul does not understand what they are saying and the couple returns to the car and drive away trying to find the way back to the city. Sooner they meet a stranger, Wei, wounded on the road and Melissa decides to help the man. They are attacked by creepy creatures and they discover that the spirits of the dead are hunting the living. Melissa and Yul try to find a way to protect themselves and survive the hellish night.

"Seventh Moon" is a forgettable low-budget horror movie with a reasonable story and basically four characters only. Unfortunately the camera work is awful, with excessive use of closes and blurred while showing the fiends, maybe due to the limited budget for special effects. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "A Maldição da Sétima Lua" ("The Curse of the 7th Moon")