The Last Seven (2010)

A feature length thriller/horror set in post-apocalyptic London starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Ronan Vibert, Sebastian Street, Daisy Head, Rita Ramnani and John Mawson. ... See full summary »

Director:

Imran Naqvi

Writer:

John Stanley (screenplay)

Stars:

Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Daisy Head

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tamer Hassan	...	Sgt. Jack Mason
Simon Phillips	...	William Blake
Daisy Head	...	Chloe Chambers
Sebastian Street	...	Capt. Robert Kendrick
Rita Ramnani	...	Isabelle
John Mawson	...	Henry Chambers
Danny Dyer	...	Angel of Death
Ronan Vibert	...	Isaac Grainger
Idalina Leandro	...	Isaac's Wife
Belle Hassan	...	Isaac's Daughter
Patricia Rybarczyk	...	William's Co-Worker
Johnny Lynch	...	Cabinet Official
Jim Ford	...	Army General
Grace Vallorani	...	Paramedic 1
Yoram Halberstam	...	Paramedic 2

Storyline

A feature length thriller/horror set in post-apocalyptic London starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Ronan Vibert, Sebastian Street, Daisy Head, Rita Ramnani and John Mawson. The film tells the story of a cataclysmic event that leaves only 7 remaining people on earth and their desperate struggle to understand the events as they are hunted one by one by a demonic power.

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Plot Keywords:

loss of daughter | paramedic | eye gouging | stigmata | revenge | 

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Taglines:

I am one of The Last Seven people on Earth. I do not know who I am. I do not trust the other Six.

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 August 2014 (UK)

Also Known As:

Tl7

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

£1,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Press On Features, Nightshade Productions, Press on Features

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

As guns are not readily available in the UK, some of the actors went on a weapons-handling course.

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Goofs

When William Blake uses the telephone box in the opening ten minutes, he first uses the phone to call 999, it rings but no answer, so we know the phone works. He then puts some change in the phone to make a second call but then changes his mind, and puts the receiver back down. At this point the change he put in should have come through the mechanism and into the slot in the bottom. You would hear this for sure as its quite a loud noise, this doesn't happen.

User Reviews

Just doesn't quite cut it

Reading the synopsis I had quite high hopes for this movie which was rapidly vanishing after the first 15 minutes which consisted of a bloke walking around the deserted streets of London's financial district. The long drawn out fifteen minutes of nothingness may impress someone who has never walked those same central London streets at Dawn on a Sunday morning but it doesn't really work for someone who has. I got the distinct impression the makers were trying to force a point here which went way past its premise of a deserted major City. The obviousness of it had me concerned for the rest of the movie.

Eventually our lone walker meets up with a trio, and they meet up with another trio and from there on in there's a lot of long drawn out scenes with intermittent quick flash editing that was intended to scare or intrigue. Im not really sure which but it didn't work.

While I have no doubt most of the seven cast have decent acting abilities, their performances were wooden. Mind you its not as if they had anything meaty to really bounce off so those performances were really down to the directors vision. You cant just put some people in front of a camera, give them some lines and hope for magic, particularly with a movie like this which should provoke the audiences senses. Then again a number of lines in the script are quite appalling, as if they were written by a secondary school drama club. But surely the director must have known those lines were just plain bad and could have done something about them.

For me the movie just plodded along until it came to a point where I was jeering for it to end. I had twigged on quite early their particular circumstance but how it lead to that I didn't know until the very end, so I do give the makers some points for that. In general though it was a rather garbled affair. Yes, it has a sense of continuity but it wasn't glued together very well. Its a movie that may very well have looked just smashing on paper, but hasn't translated so well to the screen.

As indie movies go it is by no means the worst, far from it. Its shot quite well, does have some atmosphere, and can keep you interested. If you haven't seen something in this genre before it may well keep you very interested. But I've seen a lot of these psychological horrors flicks and this one falls short of the mark. Compared to another one I reviewed 'The Broken' now there's a movie that really gets to you on a psychological level. One of the death scenes in that movie still makes me feel uncomfortable a year after watching it. There no gore, its just incredibly moving? or disturbing? I cant really describe what it is. If The Broken cant scare you nothing will.

I cant recommend the movie and I cant not recommend it. As I said, if you haven't seen this type of flick before you may very well enjoy it.