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Bug
Alex
Jerome
Penelope
Brandon
Brittany
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Critic Reviews for My Soul to Take
All Critics (63) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (57)
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The filmmaker's red herrings prove depressingly incapable of hiding the real fiend's identity.
April 21, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review… -
There's some malarkey about each kid having inherited one of the maniac's personalities, though Craven never does much with that except to point the finger of suspicion at junior.
January 5, 2011 | Full Review… -
This utterly mediocre forget-me-now could've been crafted by any faceless serial director at all.
October 15, 2010 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review… -
A thrill-free snooze that will certainly rank as one of the least -- if not the least -- effective entries in Craven's nearly 40-year canon of cinematic shockers.
October 15, 2010 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review… -
That Craven is earnestly trying to make an on-the-level, snark-free horror flick signals a welcome sea change in his career.
October 13, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review… -
There are plenty of formulaic boo! moments, yet Craven intelligently treats Bug's otherworldly issues like hormonal growing pains that must be tamed.
October 13, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for My Soul to Take
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Apr 06, 2012Sucks big fat donkey cock.... don't bother!Stuart B Super Reviewer
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Jan 05, 2012The fact that this hasn't yet been picked up by the "shitty horror canon" cult is completely beyond me. Inept in the most hilarious and incoherent of ways, My Soul to Take is nearly two hours of a once renowned horror master flying off the rails in grandiose fashion. Absolutely worth catching, unless this sort of schadenfreude-fueled spectacle isn't really your scene.Drew S Super Reviewer
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Dec 02, 2011Wes Craven is a horror genius, but what the hell was he thinking when making this shit. The plot of this was too boring and stupid to explain, the story scrambled up and has so many things happening that we simply just don't care what happens. I mean, almost every scene had something completely retarded, whether it was cheesy moments or terrible dialogue. Oh yeah, the dialogue, I almost forgot, this film has some of the worst dialogue in film history, maybe worse than Star Wars The Phantom Menace. In horror films I like dumb characters, but these characters were not dumb, they were stupid, annoying, and probably the worst cast I have ever witnessed in a horror film, if you've seen the film you know what im talking about. The movie relies completely with jump moments that were not scary, the whole movie is one big annoying piece of shit that will not scare anyone. Anyone who thought this was scary is going to have a lot of problems in life, what a terrible movie.Bradley W Super Reviewer
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Oct 23, 2011You could view this movie as a dry run by Craven for his upcoming "Scream 4". If that's the case the Scream franchise is seriously screwed. This movie is a mess, yet another by a once horror-master who just can't capture the zeitgeist anymore. The script is written by Craven himself and has the worst teen dialogue outside a Diablo Cody screenplay. For half the movie I just didn't have a clue what these kids were talking about. For example the obligatory jock character gives our lead a dig in the ribs, referring to this as an "eight". Later the obligatory bitch character says he should have made it a "twenty". Wes, you're in your seventies, don't try and be down with the kids, just do your own thing. Of course Craven is partly responsible, thanks to "Scream", for the insistence on horror being aimed at the teen dollar. If you compare it to John Carpenter after "Halloween", he rejected offers of countless teen oriented slashers. Thanks to this we got classics like "The Fog", "The Thing", "They Live" etc. Since "Scream" Craven has made two awful sequels, the laughable werewolf movie "Cursed" and this turkey. If you were burying a time capsule and wanted to represent bad horror movies in the early 21st century this is the one to include. It's so cliched that even the asian character is the first to die (and nobody seems to notice he's missing from school the next day.) There's a twist near the end that's completely redundant to anyone who paid attention to the opening sequence. The kids are meant to be sixteen but all look 22. You get the idea. If you've read my review of John Carpenter's "The Ward" you might think I have a problem with the seventies genre masters. That's not the case at all, I'm just being hard on them because I know they can do so much better. Leave the kids to their "Twilight" franchise and just do your own thing guys, after all great horror is timeless. "Scream" has dated a lot more in fifteen years than "The Hills Have Eyes" has in thirty-five. That's because the latter was made by a director who didn't want to be hip, just horrific.The Movie W Super Reviewer
My Soul to Take Quotes
Alex: | Alex: Abso-fuckin'-lutely. You now have permission to shave |
Alex: | Alex: Abso-fuckin'-lutely. You now have permission to shave. |
Alex: | Abso-fuckin'-lutely. You now have permission to shave. |
Alex: | "Abso-fuckin'-lutely. You know have permission to shave" |
Alex: | Abso-fuckin'-lutely. You know have permission to shave. |
Alex: | "Fear ye the Ripper" |
Alex: | Fear ye the Ripper. |
Alex: | "Fake it good. Like if you're scared act like you don't give a shit, or if somebody hurts you say, 'Thank you very much, that felt wonderful'" |
Alex: | Fake it good. Like if you're scared act like you don't give a shit, or if somebody hurts you say, 'Thank you very much, that felt wonderful. |
Alex: | "I thought he'd never leave...Where's the biggest knife in the house?" |
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