Nine Lives is a 2005 hyperlink cinema movie telling nine short, loosely intertwining tales centred around nine different women. It is directed by Rodrigo Garcia and starring an ensemble cast.
The movie deals with themes including parent-child relationships, fractured love and illness. It compares to Garcia's previous work, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, which also engages in similar themes, is shot as a series of overlapping vignettes and featuring yet another ensemble cast.
While the film was largely overlooked by moviegoers, critical reaction was generally favorable and both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper included it on the year end top 10 lists.
Nine Lives is a 2002 horror film starring Paris Hilton. The movie was shot in England and was low budget.
Tim plans to spend his 21st birthday at his Scottish estate with eight of his closest friends. Amongst the excitement of rediscovering old friendships, no one minds that a snowstorm has cut them off from the rest of the outside world. Everything is set for the perfect weekend, until one of the guests stumbles across an old history of the house with the power to unleash the horrors of Scotland's past. The book tells of Murray, the old Scot patriot, who has had his eyes torn out and his house taken away during the English invasion. Intent on exacting bloody revenge on the reunited English friends Murray possesses the body of a guest and turns him into a murderer. He seems impossible to stop as when the possessed guest is killed, Murray passes into the killer to continue his mission of murdering all nine of them. It is survival of the fittest as the friendships are pushed to the limit. No one can guess who the next killer will be or how to break the chain. Only one will survive. Written by
The film is composed of nine Steadicam shots, each ranging from 10-12 minutes.
Every permanent member of the crew owns a piece of the film.
All nine stories take place in real-time.
While the film was largely overlooked by moviegoers, critical reaction was generally favorable and both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper included it on the year end top 10 lists.
A Buddhist ghost story.
