I still can't believe that this movie was written AND directed by Wes Craven. We can all agree that Wes Craven can make great films, he's done it so many times. He's responsible for the revival of the genre back in the 90's with Scream and his movies are genuine classics... but this movie isn't even in the so-bad-it's-good territory, it's just plain bad.
Just a side bar here for a second, Wes Craven is the man that made me fell in love with horror, the Scream series was the first set of horror films I ever watched and he has been a constant in my love of the genre. Last House on the Left was so scary that I still can't watch it again, Hills Have Eyes was hard to follow, but scary and kept me going. Hell I even liked Red Eye and Cursed, they weren't great movies but they at least had a few good scares and were clearly made with love.
My Soul To Take has none of that in it. There's none of the originality that Nightmare On Elm Street had, the tension that Wes perfected in Last House On The Left is completely missing, the desire to understand the movie I felt when watching Hills Have Eyes is long gone here and the creativity and intellect that was in scream is non-existent.
This movie had nothing good to offer at all.
The characters were so forgettable that I can't even describe them, even if I wanted too The plot was overly complex, and not in a cool Inception kind of way. I can handle complex plots, but make it worthwhile... 7 kids being born on the same day as the main villain was killed sounds cool, till you realize that it's not that they were born at the same TIME he was killed, but the same day... there are thousands upon thousands of people born every day, and these specific 7 are the ones he goes after.
The dialog sucks, plain and simple. When you have lines like "No, it's not okay, what I did. It's not okay for everybody to be killing each other all the time" and " Did she tell you not to worry if somebody you thought was dead just might come back alive? If he was evil enough?" then there is no way I can take you seriously. No one in the history of the world has ever talked like this in reality, these lines sound like they belong in a 14 year olds screenplay that he wrote the night before he handed it in for a school assignment.
The scares are non existent, I didn't even jump once. Now this could just be that I'm desensitized because I watch a lot of horror movies, but on the other hand that is usually the intended audience for a horror flick... people who love the genre. If I'm not jumping in my seat a little when I'm watching a horror movie then there is something wrong there.
All in all this movie is not worth your time, just hope that Wes does better next time because this is easily his lowest low
Just a side bar here for a second, Wes Craven is the man that made me fell in love with horror, the Scream series was the first set of horror films I ever watched and he has been a constant in my love of the genre. Last House on the Left was so scary that I still can't watch it again, Hills Have Eyes was hard to follow, but scary and kept me going. Hell I even liked Red Eye and Cursed, they weren't great movies but they at least had a few good scares and were clearly made with love.
My Soul To Take has none of that in it. There's none of the originality that Nightmare On Elm Street had, the tension that Wes perfected in Last House On The Left is completely missing, the desire to understand the movie I felt when watching Hills Have Eyes is long gone here and the creativity and intellect that was in scream is non-existent.
This movie had nothing good to offer at all.
The characters were so forgettable that I can't even describe them, even if I wanted too The plot was overly complex, and not in a cool Inception kind of way. I can handle complex plots, but make it worthwhile... 7 kids being born on the same day as the main villain was killed sounds cool, till you realize that it's not that they were born at the same TIME he was killed, but the same day... there are thousands upon thousands of people born every day, and these specific 7 are the ones he goes after.
The dialog sucks, plain and simple. When you have lines like "No, it's not okay, what I did. It's not okay for everybody to be killing each other all the time" and " Did she tell you not to worry if somebody you thought was dead just might come back alive? If he was evil enough?" then there is no way I can take you seriously. No one in the history of the world has ever talked like this in reality, these lines sound like they belong in a 14 year olds screenplay that he wrote the night before he handed it in for a school assignment.
The scares are non existent, I didn't even jump once. Now this could just be that I'm desensitized because I watch a lot of horror movies, but on the other hand that is usually the intended audience for a horror flick... people who love the genre. If I'm not jumping in my seat a little when I'm watching a horror movie then there is something wrong there.
All in all this movie is not worth your time, just hope that Wes does better next time because this is easily his lowest low