Still not had enough torture porn? Well lucky for you there are filmmakers out there still keen to explore this dark little corner of modern horror. Up to the plate now is some time Vampire High director Daniel Grou and his new film 7 Days (Les 7 jours du talion), which is happy to dish up the generic goods.

Middle-aged surgeon Bruno Hamel (Claude Legault), his wife Sylvie (Fanny Mallette) and their eight-year-old daughter Jasmine (Rose-Marie Coallier) are living a happy but fairly uneventful life in the quiet suburban town of Drummondville. That all changes one beautiful autumn afternoon when Jasmine fails to return home from school and is later found to have been raped and murdered by a local man, Anthony Lemaire (Martin Dubreuil). The loss of their daughter has a profound effect on Bruno and Sylvie, driving a wedge between them and leaving both, particularly Bruno, drowning in a whirlpool of despair.

When the killer-rapist is eventually arrested and scheduled to appear in court charged with the multiple murders of young female victims, Bruno's emotions turn from guilt and grief to anger and a desire for revenge inspiring him to hatch a detailed plot to kidnap Lemaire, take him to a secret location and make him pay for his crimes. Everything goes according to plan and with the monster now in his custody Bruno contacts the police and reveals his terrifying intentions: he will torture Lemaire for seven days before executing him and then turning himself in...

Adapted from his own novel by Patrick Senécal, 7 Days is being touted as a dark exploration of the mind of a man driven to the edge of sanity by his own grief, a thriller with graphic scenes of violence that push the scenario into the realms of pure horror and which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 to apparently wide acclaim. Starring Claude Legault (Everything Is Fine) as the broken father and husband seeking the ultimate revenge and Martin Dubreuil (The Broken Line; Everything Is Fine) as the killer-turned-victim, the film co-stars Fanny Mallette (The Broken Line; Continental, A Film Without Guns; A Girl At The Window) and award winning veteran Canadian actor Rémy Girard (Human Trafficking; The Barbarian Invasions; The Red Violin).

7 days will be released on UK DVD on 23rd August 2010 by E1 Entertainment at the RRP of £12.99. No extras have been listed.