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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

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[A] dodo of suspense.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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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.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
01/22/02
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Yawn.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
06/20/02
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Blatantly cannibalising every horror movie it can think of in the attempt to produce some patchwork Frankenstein's monster.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
01/07/02
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC
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When it thinks it is building atmosphere and mystery, it's really just meandering and suffering from dank cinematography.

Full Review Source: UK Critic | comment Comment
01/20/02
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

'Soul' is the one of the many things lacking in this sad excuse for a horror film.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
10/30/02
Brian Walker
Brian Walker
ViewLondon

We’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
Empire Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | comment Comment
09/17/01
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
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Soulless, spookless sludge.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
09/14/01
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Mr. Showbiz

For all its eerie lighting, chase scenes and people in glass masks, this film doesn't have a single good boo in it.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
09/07/01
Claire Bickley
Claire Bickley
Jam! Movies

A pathetic parade of standard-issue jumps and frights that can't raise a single goosebump.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
09/08/01
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Soul Survivors is such a numbingly opaque and enervating movie experience that even Jeepers Creepers seems poetic and luminous by comparison.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
09/10/01
Kevin Courrier
Kevin Courrier
Globe and Mail

So awful I feel compelled to knock on doors and warn people about it.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment 1 Comment
09/10/01
Pete Croatto
Pete Croatto
Filmcritic.com

'Different' doesn't exactly mean 'good,' and this surprisingly sedate supernatural story proves that point quite well.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
10/09/01
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

An exercise in spinning wheels, a muddle of images, ideas, and characters that don't go anywhere, let alone make any sense.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
Film Threat

A cinematic oxymoron: the tasteful teensploitation pic.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
09/14/01
Bruce Fretts
Bruce Fretts
Entertainment Weekly

A sentimental story of little suspense and scant terror.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/10/01
Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Van Gelder
New York Times
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You'd probably get the same enjoyment out of watching a public safety advert.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
04/16/03
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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.

Full Review Source: Calgary Sun | comment Comment
09/07/01
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Calgary Sun

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

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
09/07/01
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