Fact About Seven Film

While the 1980s were all about the cinematic mass murderer as a mute, emotionless entity, the 1990s were a good time to peddle screenplays about high-IQ serial killers: The Silence of the Lambs started the decade by becoming one of the few thrillers to ever receive a Best Picture Oscar. But with audience fatigue setting in, few expected that 1995's Se7en-from a first-time screenwriter and an as-yet-unproven director-would turn out to be a modern genre classic.