The tedious storytelling sucks the life and soul out of the characters far more effectively than Satan ever manages.
Comment
06/24/06
Lost Souls (2000)
7 %
Reviews Counted: 88 Fresh: 6 Rotten:82 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
Though Kaminski's film is visually stylish, Lost Souls is just another derivative entry in the Apocalypse genre, with lackluster direction, unengaging characters, and no scares.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: Years ago, priests exorcised a demon out of young Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder). Now she uses her unusual sensitivity to the same demons who once came after her to help the priests in other exorcisms. In one such case, a serial killer named Henry Birdson (John Diehl) claims to know the name of a man... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt, Philip Baker Hall, Elias Koteas
Reviews
Top Critic
Does anyone really think they have an original satanic thriller up their sleeve?
12/10/01
Lucifer has been poorly served by Hollywood's current penchant for Satanic shenanigans.
04/16/01
Top Critic
Already I'm looking forward to Kaminski's next picture -- with a good script, this guy could be dangerous.
02/07/01
For Winona Ryder completists, maverick Biblical scholars, fans of monied Manhattan interiors and Mark Kermode. All others, beware.
02/07/01
Top Critic
Mood alone cannot energize this slow, simplistic, and anticlimactic Exorcist pretender.
10/14/07
Alas, look is everything here and storytelling and characters are next to nothing, so what emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving -- visually striking set pieces set loose in a void.
01/06/07
An absolutely terrible movie, sloppily constructed and poorly executed.
07/24/06
Ryder seems serious enough, but there's no real evidence that she's even trying to act...
01/27/05
There's a good reason this lackluster fright-fest sat on the shelf for two years. It's nothing more than a tired Winona Ryder vehicle taking advantage of the topic du jour -- demonic possession.
05/14/03
It's still a little smarter and a little more interesting than most entries in the antichrist genre and packs more than one satisfying scare.
06/05/02
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