ti_ffy Watching Nine Lives truly has a formula and storyline that is unique. I found myself wondering how the characters were going to get out of this crazy curse. The dialog was in typical horror movie fashion, and gave a bit of a cheesy unrealistic vibe. Some of the acting is quite frankly laughable. The standouts are Ameila Warner and David Nicolle who give the most emotion filled and honest performances. The biggest flaw is heiress Paris Hilton, it's not that she's a bad actress per-say, but I feel like the only reason she was cast is because she is so widely recognized. Her picture is front and center in the poster and yet, she is the first victim, dying in the first 30 or so minutes. I find that very unfair to the above mentioned standouts who are clearly the main focus in this movie.Camera work, lighting, special effects are all casualties to the low-budget that this movie had to work with, which the storyline strongly needed.Overall, I recommend that if you are a Paris Hilton fan and want to see this, it is better to rent it or else you are wasting you money. It is decent, not as bad as I expected honestly, I think it would have been much better sans-Paris (or at least not make her the center of the poster, which is almost like false advertising) and with a bigger budget.

whpratt1 This picture is about nine old friends who are gathered in a Scottish Manor and everyone is happy to meet each other after so many years. Gals and guys join in and have plenty of booze and start renewing past experiences with each other.Paris Hilton looked very happy in the role she played and I can understand why, she had a very small part and was the first person to disappear very early into the film.The wind howling through this creepy old mansion and snow falling made this a very scary film until you find out the reason for all the murder and stabbing. The plot goes completely no where and I must say that most of the actors tried their very best, but the story stinks.

gavin6942 Nine friends celebrate at a mansion in Scotland. After a little dinner and drinking and too much conversation, one friend stumbles upon a curse and one by one the guests are faced with the threat of death.This film has so many problems with it, I don't know where to begin. First, the film "stars" Paris Hilton, even though she has the smallest role in the movie. I suspect her presence is the only reason the film was picked up at all, even though she serves no purpose and cannot act in this movie to save her life (she's worse in this than in "House of Wax").When the Lions Gate logo came on, my friend and I thought we might be safe. Lions Gate makes some great films. Well, they make bad films, too, it seems. What possessed them to put their name on here, I don't know. With all due respect, I hope they lost money.The first half of the film is a dinner scene with people sitting and talking about literally nothing. Nothing of interest, nothing related to the plot, nothing. A brief philosophical debate arises, but goes nowhere. As my friend says, this film was very innovative for a horror film: it might have been the first one that tried to kill the audience.The death scenes are horrible. Basically, all deaths consist of a stabbing in the stomach: a magic stabbing! Shirts are never torn, but somehow a small blood stain appears and the victim becomes quite dead at a rapid pace.None of the actors are worth caring about and the whole film is in shambles. Most annoying for me (besides the utter boredom) was the tendency to remind us we were in Scotland (the words "Scotland" or "Scotish" were repeated many times... for no reason. And there was a golf club).This film is even too slow and pointless for "Mystery Science Theater 3000", so if there is a way to make something blink out of existence (like a memory hole), someone please make this your first target.

buthezenglish14-1 Okay so I caught this movie perhaps within the first half hour. I basically skipped over it until I saw a very dead Paris Hilton in only her panties (She went down true Paris style). Instantly overjoyed and intrigued at this dead Paris I began to watch the movie.I was about to turn it off about ten minutes later when the Scottish hottie danced across the screen.The movie was kind of predictable, direction was interesting. Acting was eh-ish. If it were any other movie I would have given it a 2, but I rate it as a 5 for the absolute eye candy.Perhaps the monologue at the end wasn't the greatest because it basically was poorly done, but the mouth that the words were coming from certainly more than makes up for the acting skills.Watch it if your hormonal, or are in serious need of seeing a dead Paris Hilton.