My Soul To Take (Horror Movie) from December 9, 2010 at your nearest cinemas in town

My Soul To Take

Starring: Max Thieriot, John Magoro, Zena Grey, Denzel Whitaker, Nick Lashaway, Paulina Olszynski

Director: Wes Craven
Genre: Horror

Wes Craven might be the king of horror but with this movie his reign is in jeopardy.

Release Date: 9-Dec-2010

Language: English

Distributor: United International Pictures

Synopsis:

In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer. Adam "Bug" Heller (Max Thieriot) was supposed to die on the last night the Riverton Ripper wrecked havoc on that terrifying night. Unaware of terrifying crimes being committed to the seven children, he has been plagued by nightmares of their murders while not aware if they hold true or if he is simply imagining the images that haunt him. But if Bug hopes to save his friends from the monster that's returned, he must face an evil that won't rest...until it finishes the job it began the day he was born

A Soulless Flick (The Star Online)

By Punitha Yogaratnam

My Soul To Take

Rating(out of 5): * ½

(United International Pictures)

Starring: Max Thieriot, John Magoro, Zena Grey, Denzel Whitaker, Nick Lashaway, Paulina Olszynski

Let's just face the facts: Hollywood can't do horror, not the type of horror we Asians are used to anyway. I mean they actually thought Paranormal Activity was scary! They should watch Korea's A Tale Of Two Sisters or Japan's Ju-On, now those are real horror movies.

Growing up I found a couple of Hollywood horror movies pretty scary – The Omen and The Exorcist (the originals, mind you). Those two kept me up at nights but the horror flicks being churned out by the Hollywood machinery these days are not so much horror as they are thrillers.

And My Soul To Take is just that, a thriller and not a very good one at that.

The movie begins with Abel Plenkov, a multiple-personality schizophrenic who is also a mass murderer known as The Ripper.

GETTING PERSONAL: What's your name again? Nevermind, you're probably going to be killed any minute now!

Early on Abel is “killed” and he becomes the town legend. Some in town believe his multiple “souls” are reborn to seven kids born the second he supposedly dies.

Exactly 16 years later, the Riverton Seven are being knocked off one by one. Now it's a race against time to find out which of the surviving seven is the killer. Is it Adam 'Bug' Heller, the innocent kid, his close friend Alex Dunkelman or could it be Abel, back to finish what he started?

To find out, you have to sit through this agonizing movie directed by Wes Craven.

You would expect a Wes Craven movie to be at least shocking, you'd expect it to be scary. Sadly this is not true and I personally feel that people are going to wise up to the fact that Wes Craven can't hide behind his name anymore. I mean just because he was behind the best cult movie in the world, A Nightmare On Elm Street, doesn't mean that all his movies are going to stand the test of time.

TIME OUT: How am I suppose to get ahead if my role is just five minutes long?!

As for the actors in My Soul To Take, they are unknown and if that's not bad enough, you don't get to invest in their characters at all because before you can say “B-grade movie”, they're all dropping like flies.

My Soul To Take has no character development, the plot line was inconsistent and the delivery was choppy.

The entire movie, actually, felt as if director Craven was rushing through it as if sensing that what started out as an interesting idea was turning out to be a nightmare he didn't intend.