David Fincher's classic '90s thriller Seven has just been added to Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
The 1995 film stars Morgan Freeman as retiring police Detective William Somerset, who tackles his final case with the aid of newly transferred David Mills (Brad Pitt).
When they discover a number of elaborate and grizzly murders, the pair soon realise they are dealing with a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) who is targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins.
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Seven holds a very strong 84% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 153 reviews, with critics calling it "extraordinarily dark", "utterly shocking" and "a stone cold classic".
"A brutal, relentlessly grimy shocker with taut performances, slick gore effects, and a haunting finale," reads the site's critical consensus.
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Fincher recently revealed a long-running mystery surrounding the film's harrowing finale, which sees Detective Mills realise that Spacey's serial killer has delivered him his wife's (Gwyneth Paltrow) head in a box.
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Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the filmmaker debunked reports that the box contained a prosthetic replica of Paltrow's head, calling them "entirely ridiculous".
"I think we had a seven or eight-pound shot bag," he said. "We had done the research to figure out, if Gwyneth Paltrow's body mass index was X, what portion of that would be attributable to her head. And so we had an idea of what that would weigh, and I think there was a weight in it.
"And we did put a wig in there, so that when Morgan rips the box open, if there were some of this tape that was used to seal the box. I think it was a shot bag and a wig, and I think the wig had a little bit of blood in it, so some of the hair would stick together."
Seven is now available to watch on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
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