mr-rob-c the only reason i gave 5/10 is ... because the end saves a little bit the situation....the rest...how to describe, low budget = never mind when you have a good story and good actors. the idea of the film is not new, but i doesn't care, there was the possibility to make more out of this film, but this was really bad. bad actors, bad camera, bad effects, you see...as i say everything bad but not the end and the idea...if you have nothing else to watch at home then this film, then it is okay to look it, otherwise skip.greetings from cologne

Raul Faust Well, this film used to be one of my favorites some years ago, but re-watching it now, I can easily notice lots of lame aspects.To begin, all the characters are strangely unlikeable. The only death I cared for was the cop's. And it's a strange thing, since I tend to dislike police guys due to the Brazilian ones. Also, it has a vibe much similar to "My Little Eye" and "Cube", which makes it loses some of it's originality. The main thing that make me like it is the ending. It was very unexpected, at least to me, so it satisfies. Of course it doesn't save the whole thing, but leading the spectator satisfied with the ending is something kind of hard nowadays. Most films end up disappointing lately...

kluseba I've really expected a lot of this film. First of all, I wanted to see the movie because I was expecting a dark, interesting atmosphere, some unique characters (the name of Dennis Hopper sounded promising to me) and some weird and interesting ways to see how some of the characters would die.Well, most of the characters are quite superficial first of all. Second, it takes a lot of time before anything happens that captures the attention of the viewer, the introduction seems to last very long, without exploring some interesting details about the nine persons. The dialogues are quite boring and always turn around the same things. When the killing game begins, I was disappointed, because there was a lack of imagination concerning the way the people would die and a lack of logic, because almost all of the characters acted way too stupid or aggressive. There is no surprising element anymore, everybody is losing his mind and control and the dark atmosphere that was slowly created during the long beginning of the film is destroyed when almost everyone is dying quite quickly and quite the same way.The only surprising element is the end of the movie, but the rest is somehow easy to be guessed and superficial.If you like the general style and idea of this movie (somehow stolen from a famous novel by Agatha Chjristie, though), I could recommend the movie "Mindhunters" for you where people die in more original and surprising ways and where the character of each actor is somehow important for the development of the movie.

Theo Robertson I caught this by chance flicking through the channels . Dennis Hopper ? He is a very underrated actor best known for playing bad guys . Likwise Peter Capaldi he has recently been picking up good parts in film and television recently . However I should have paid more attention to the supporting cast . Kelly Brook is someone best known for modeling while Susie Amy is best known for her role as Chardonnay in British trash classic FOOTBALLERS WIVES . No , actually she's known only as Chardonnay which gives a clue as to her talents and her non career The story starts with nine characters getting chloroformed and abducted by an unknown assailant . They wake up in a basement of a house where a transmitted voice tells them they're going to play a game where the last one alive will win $5 million and be given their freedom . Obviously the voice has seen both BIG BROTHER and SAW . Sadly the producers of HOUSE OF 9 have used BIG BROTHER as their main inspiration rather than SAW which means we're subjected to a bunch of whiny , unlikable foul mouthed non entities who deserve all that's coming to them There's little in the way of plot and little in the way of character development . The cast don't help themselves much either and even Hopper gives an unconvincing performance as an " Oirish " priest who can't even complete a sentence without breaking in to his natural American accent . Director Steve R Monroe seems more interested in to inserting a power ballad sequence than developing Phillipe Vidal's screenplay and the ending where Brook's character ( Who's miraciously survived electrocution ) wins the money only to find herself locked in another vault makes no sense whatsoever