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My Soul To Take Movie Review

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Review for the film " My Soul to Take"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 47 Minutes

Certificate: A

Released: 08-10-2010

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Similar To: Ballerina (2024), Them That Follow, The Man With The Iron Heart, Zombies Vs. Robots

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CAST & CREW

Max Thieriot

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Movie Actor:

Max Thieriot

Denzel Whitaker

John Magaro

Movie Actress:

Emily Meade

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The movie is directed by Wes Craven Wes Craven known as Wesley Earl was an American wr >> Read More... after a long gap of sixteen years. His previous movie was New Nightmare in the year 1994 which was also a horror.

Plot

After killing his pregnant wife Sarah and his psychiatrist, Abel Plenkov (Raul Esparza), identifies himself to be a serial killer. Abel is shot and when is taken to the hospital, the paramedic who argues that Abel has multiple souls in him, is killed, and Abel escapes.

The Riverton Seven meet, to superstitiously prevent the return of Ripper, the evil killer, by killing him through rituals. But the elected Bug fails to. In few days, Jay (Jeremy Chu), one in the Riverton Seven, is killed by the Ripper, who has returned. Penelope ( Zena Grey Zena Grey is a beautiful and talented American-Bri >> Read More... ), one among the Seven, predicts the Ripper, is killed next. When the corpse of Penelope is identified by Brandon and Brittany, the Ripper stabs them to death.

Fang (Emily Meade) reveals the secret that Bug was the son of Sarah, who had survived in her death womb. Alex tells Bug that the Ripper’s soul is inside one of the Riverton Seven and doubts Bug to be the killer.

Is Alex's assumption right? Are the other four surviving? This is all about the story.

Analysis

Petra Korner has rocked with the lighting techniques which is the only best thing about the movie. He has mastered the low lighting effects and conveyed the thrilling scenes very well through his knowledge on one side and low lightings. The music stayed a bit dull as it failed to freak the viewers in certain areas. The story tends to be much complicated which failed to make the audience understand what was happening. Few scenes were illogical.

Star performance:

Max Thieriot Max Thieriot is a sensational young actor who had >> Read More... , the lead cast of the movie, has acted so better than his previous movies. Zena Grey though had a small role, has given her full commitment and acted genuinely.

What’s there?

1) Good visuals were the only best thing about the movie.

What’s not there?

1) The screenplay is unusual.
2) The background scores that is much essential for a horror movie is dull.
3) The movie missed a lot of logics and is complicated.