[A] dodo of suspense.
Soul Survivors (2001)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:2
Rotten:45
Average Rating:2.6/10
Consensus: Soul Survivors' stock characters and utter lack of suspense gives viewers little reason to attempt deciphering the confusing plot.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: After surviving a car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck), Cassandra (Melissa Sagemiller) finds herself haunted by his ghost. A priest (Luke Wilson) tries to exorcize these frightful... After surviving a car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck), Cassandra (Melissa Sagemiller) finds herself haunted by his ghost. A priest (Luke Wilson) tries to exorcize these frightful visions from Cassandra's mind, but her college friends see her vulnerability as the perfect outlet for their malicious plans. She tries to carry on her life like all the other college freshmen, but it unravels when she begins to believe she is being stalked. Then Cassandra has horrifying hallucinations; during a midterm, she bleeds profusely all over her desk, and the drain in her shower explodes with blood. Gradually, Cassandra understands what is happening to her, but will she be able to survive? Neal H. Moritz and Stokley Chaffin, the producers of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, deliver another teenage horror gore flick, but this one has a punk rock edginess that bests their previous efforts. Wes Bentley (AMERICAN BEAUTY) is creepy as Cassandra's obsessive ex-boyfriend, and Eliza Dushku is hilarious as his slutty girlfriend. SOUL SURVIVORS borrows the visually murky slime of JACOB'S LADDER and mixes it with the gradually unveiling horror of STIR OF ECHOES for a uniquely haunting result. [More]
Starring: Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Eliza Dushku
Starring: Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone
Director: Steve Carpenter
Director: Steve Carpenter
Screenwriter: Steve Carpenter
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Stokely Chaffin, Jonathan Shestack
Composer: Dan Licht
Studio: Artisan Entertainment
Reviews for Soul Survivors
It's a terrible punning title... Quite apart from being lame in itself, it actually helps to give away the correspondingly lame ending in this teen horror vehicle for Hollywood's newest, cutest young stars.
Blatantly cannibalising every horror movie it can think of in the attempt to produce some patchwork Frankenstein's monster.
When it thinks it is building atmosphere and mystery, it's really just meandering and suffering from dank cinematography.
'Soul' is the one of the many things lacking in this sad excuse for a horror film.
Though overly reliant on quick-cut montages and shots of Cassie running down hallways, writer/director Steve Carpenter delivers some modest thrills alongside the usual teen-horror clichés.
For all its eerie lighting, chase scenes and people in glass masks, this film doesn't have a single good boo in it.
A pathetic parade of standard-issue jumps and frights that can't raise a single goosebump.
Soul Survivors is such a numbingly opaque and enervating movie experience that even Jeepers Creepers seems poetic and luminous by comparison.
So awful I feel compelled to knock on doors and warn people about it.
'Different' doesn't exactly mean 'good,' and this surprisingly sedate supernatural story proves that point quite well.
An exercise in spinning wheels, a muddle of images, ideas, and characters that don't go anywhere, let alone make any sense.
You'd probably get the same enjoyment out of watching a public safety advert.
Purgatory is an apt metaphor for the experience the new horror movie Soul Survivors offers its audiences. It may not amount to torment, but watching it definitely borders on torture.
It doesn't entertain, it's confusing, it rarely excites and it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime, despite a pretty cool ending
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