Se7en (1995) – Seven Sins. One Relentless Nightmare.

He kills with purpose, punishes with principle, and turns sin into spectacle.

Se7en is a landmark in psychological crime thrillers—bleak, cerebral, and unflinchingly brutal. Directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker, the film drags viewers into a rotting urban hellscape where morality is warped, justice is futile, and evil is methodical. Over time, it has become a cult classic and one of the most iconic noir thrillers of the ’90s.

The film follows two detectives: Somerset, a wise and weary veteran days away from retirement, and Mills, a brash young investigator new to the city. Their final case together is a series of grisly murders, each modeled after one of the seven deadly sins. The killer, later revealed as the chillingly methodical John Doe, leaves behind elaborate crime scenes—each more disturbing than the last.

As the detectives piece together the pattern, it becomes clear that the murders are not random but part of a larger, terrifying design. Doe is a man driven by a twisted moral logic, one that forces the world to confront its own apathy and filth. The killer isn’t just committing murders—he’s delivering sermons, using corpses as punctuation.

The film's conclusion is one of the most unforgettable endings in cinematic history—tense, devastating, and morally ambiguous. Se7en doesn’t offer closure. It offers a mirror held up to the worst parts of humanity, and dares you to look into it.