In spite of those few concessions, Seven ’s anti-Hollywood ending emerged mostly unscathed, and Fincher’s determination to make his head-in-the-box movie paid off for posterity.

Part of the genius of Seven was that we never got, or had, to see what was in the box. Viewers never had to know more than what Freeman’s Somerset was willing to tell us: “There’s blood.” ...

No one who has ever seen David Fincher’s 1995 thriller Seven — or Se7en, for those who are pernickety when it comes to movie title style — will have been able to forget it. The bleak, miserable tale ...

The film Seven directed by David Fincher explores the seven deadly sins, with each sin represented through gruesome murders. The "Sloth" sin in the movie is the most disturbing and sadistic death ...