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''Nine Lives'' is a 2002 British B-horror film that is remembered only for having Paris Hilton in it and for being [[So Bad Its Good]]. It starts out fairly promising with some good [[Character Development]] and an interesting premise, but it ultimately fails in the second and third acts due to bad acting and general plot-induced stupidity.
''Nine Lives'' is a 2002 British B-horror film that is remembered only for having Paris Hilton in it and for being [[So Bad It's Good]]. It starts out fairly promising with some good [[Character Development]] and an interesting premise, but it ultimately fails in the second and third acts due to bad acting and general plot-induced stupidity.


The story follows nine friends who all went to the same posh university (never mentioned but probably not Oxford or Cambridge) meeting up for the weekend at a manor in Scotland. On the first night it snows heavily, trapping them there and one of the guys reads a book about the man who used to own the house. He ends up being possessed by the man's ghost and proceeds to murder the others. The ghost has a clever back up plan - anyone who kills the person he's possessing will be possessed themselves.
The story follows nine friends who all went to the same posh university (never mentioned but probably not Oxford or Cambridge) meeting up for the weekend at a manor in Scotland. On the first night it snows heavily, trapping them there and one of the guys reads a book about the man who used to own the house. He ends up being possessed by the man's ghost and proceeds to murder the others. The ghost has a clever back up plan - anyone who kills the person he's possessing will be possessed themselves.


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== This film provides examples of: ==


* [[Actor Allusion]]: A clever ironic joke where Lucy does a fake Scottish accent and Pete remarks how awful it is. Lucy is played by a Scottish actress (doing an English accent) while Pete is played by an English actor (doing a Scottish accent).
* [[Actor Allusion]]: A clever ironic joke where Lucy does a fake Scottish accent and Pete remarks how awful it is. Lucy is played by a Scottish actress (doing an English accent) while Pete is played by an English actor (doing a Scottish accent).
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* [[Billing Displacement]]: Paris Hilton is on the front cover and gets top billing so this film must be about her right? Wrong, she's gone after 30 minutes.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: Paris Hilton is on the front cover and gets top billing so this film must be about her right? Wrong, she's gone after 30 minutes.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Whoever is possessed by Murray.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Whoever is possessed by Murray.
* [[Blind Without Em]]: Damian
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Damian
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]: Part of a little joke Lucy makes to Pete.
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]: Part of a little joke Lucy makes to Pete.
* [[Call Back]]: Laura uses Pete's dice under the cup trick as reasoning why she can't let him and Damian into the locked room.
* [[Call Back]]: Laura uses Pete's dice under the cup trick as reasoning why she can't let him and Damian into the locked room.
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