Seven Themes

Seven isn't about the Seven Wonders of the World, or the seven dwarfs, or even a seven-layer guacamole dip. It's about a serial killer acting according to the seven deadly sins—gluttony, greed, s...

Fact: serial killer movies wouldn't be entertaining if the killer were an idiot. In all of these films, whether it's The Silence of the Lambs or The Bone Collector, the killer is ahead of the detec...

Some people think that folks who move to a city have got to be crazy—higher rents, smaller spaces, more crime. Some people think that folks who move to the country have got to be crazy—no peopl...

It's not a good feeling to dislike where you live. Maybe it's too loud, too crowded, or too hard to meet people. Or, maybe you just hate everyone around you so much that you want to kill them all....

Seven's creeptastic John Doe thinks he has been chosen by God to smite sinners and turn the world around. Um, no. This type of biblical-vengeance thing always turns out wrong—especially because t...