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Summary: Like Jacob's Ladder but not as good.
Review: The flashbacks and the imaginary were completely hard to follow, had to see the movie at least twice to fully understand what was happening. The ending will definitely take you by surprise. Recommend to people who enjoy confusing plots and weird twists.
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Summary: one star is still too high
Review: i never saw this movie at the theatres, but at 85 minutes, the additional material must not of amounted to much. and it sure doesn't. i like eliza dushku and bought the movie for that reason alone. the plot is muddled, acting fair, and not well-paced. the box advertises: more blood! more sex! more terror! well, there is very little of any of those. there are a lot of extras, but i don't know why someone would want 3 different motion menus. borrow or rent it before you buy. a subpar teen movie that is not worth the price.
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Summary: Worse movie ever
Review: This movie is just horrible. To anybody who has not yet purchased this movie, please do not. Don't waste your money. Don't even rent it and waste your time. To those people who gave this film a good review, I'm not exactly sure what movie you watched but it couldn't have been this one. This movie is nonsense.
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Summary: Fifteen-year hiatus has not improved Carpenter.
Review: Soul Survivors: The Killer Cut (Stephen Carpenter, 2001)Stephen Carpenter returns from a 15-year hiatus from directing (during which he wrote the screenplays to the muddled 1991 Dean Koontz adaptation The Servants of Twilight and the 1999 Hollywood smash Blue Streak) with Soul Survivors, released in R-rated form on video. (“The Killer Cut: More sex! More blood! More terror!”) It should probably tip you off that Carpenter’s three previous directorial efforts were The Power (1980), The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1981), and Kindred (1986). You probably never saw any of them. You’re a better person for that. It’s hard not to like any movie in which Angela Featherstone (Cracker) gets naked, especially when being pawed by Eliza Dushku (Bring It On) at the time. But worry not, Carpenter tries his best to get you not to like it. The premise revolves around Cassie (Melissa Sagemiller, in her biggest role to date) and her three friends Annabel (Dushku), Matt (American Beauty’s Wes Bentley), and Sean (Casey Affleck from Good Will Hunting, Ocean’s Eleven, etc.). Sean is her current boyfriend; Matt is an ex. On the night before the four of them are to part ways for college, they go out to a mysterious rave. On the way home, Cassie, fighting with Sean, loses control of the car and crashes, killing Sean. She comes unhinged after that, having a nervous breakdown at college, and returns home, where Matt takes a semester off from Harvard to care for her. Despite this, she keeps seeing the two guys from the rave who were in the other car involved in the accident stalking her… Unfortunately, to compare this to the film of which it’s a painful second-rate ripoff would be to give away the ending. But those who have seen the far superior film from a decade before this will catch on not long after this turkey has begun. (Think “being mugged by Santa Claus.” That should give enough of a mental jog to those who saw it.) Can’t find a single way to recommend this, makeout scene between Dushku and Featherstone notwithstanding. Okay, come to think of it, if you’re a diehard Cracker fan who’s always wanted to see Angela Featherstone topless… * ½
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Summary: Oh Horror, thou art so horrible...
Review: A woman is attacked by two strange men who cut open her wrist and drain her blood. Cassandra goes to a party with her friends and her boyfriend sees her kiss another guy who is her ex-boyfriend. This results in her boyfriend getting upset and ignoring her while they are driving away from the party. Meanwhile there is a car passing with two strange men and a woman. The passing car ends up spinning and Cassandra drives straight into the car. When Cassandra wakes up after the accident things are beginning to turn bizarre around her. Soul Survivors has no storyline, extremely poor characters, and a script that seems to lack sentences of any meaning, which results in a horrendously poor cinematic experience.
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Summary: BAD, BAD, BAD!
Review: I'll cut to the chase. This is a bad movie. While the concept is OK, albeit not original, it is handled very poorly. The writing is bad, and the acting is wooden. The atmosphere was mildly successfull, but not what it could have been due to the convoluted plot. After a while, this movie just became tedious. The added scenes to this disc(all couple minutes) really don't add anything. In short, this movie was a waste of time-save your money.
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Summary: Mildly Interesting If Only You Don't Know ....
Review: As many reviewers did (so they say on this Amazon site), I went to see gorgeous, charming Eliza Dushku, so good in "Bring it on." And this film came from Artizan, the company of "BWP." And the producer is the one who gave us "I Know What You Did..." and "Urban Legend." I naturally watched it. What a ... waste of time! I don't usually exclaim this way, knowing the efforts they put into moviemaking, but this is an exception. The story starts promisingly, neatly introducing the entangled relations of the four high school students: Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Eliza Dushku, and Malissa Sagemiller. After an uncomfortable affront and anger, they drive in the rainy midnight, to have a car accident. After that, the film follows the strange events that happen to Mellisa Sagemiller's character, who survived the crash. As the tension goes higher, we know (and you all know soon) that nothing is as certain as she thought ... sort of. The big problem is, even within short running time, you see the ending from miles away. I don't quote it, but you will surely remember one film that is similar to this one, or two, or three. A film starring a talented actor Tim? Or a certain Oscar-nominated film that was a big hit? But even if you know that ending, the film could have been better if it had showed a much more skilled hand to realize the brooding, sinister atmosphere that is essential to this kind of thriller. However, the film is badly edited, mixing loud rock music to batter our nerves, right after very sentimental feelings, and unsteady camera doesn't even try to express anything subtle, throwing away the idea of "suggestion" or "foreshadowing." The acting is all disappointing, letting even Ms. Dushku sleepwalk. Leading lady Melissa Sagemiller and Casey Affleck are no better, and so is Wes Bentley of "American Beauty" for all the best they do. Add to that, usually good Luke Wilson appears as a cameo, but that doesn't help. I'm sorry for my harsh review, but I was disappointed to that degree.
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Summary: Save your time and money
Review: I watch atleast 6 DVDs a week and this was by far the worst I've seen since Jeepers Creepers. The plot if you want to call it that, makes no sense whatsoever. It's hard to put words to how bad this movie actually is. Perfect gift for the mother in law that you don't like.
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Summary: Bad Filmmaking In Excess
Review: It's hard to say what's more sad about SOUL SURVIVORS--the fact that it's a terrible film of the highest magnitude, or that it makes previously well-thought of actors like Wes Bentley and Eliza Dushku seem like wooden amateurs(yes, they are that bad here). I won't even get into the plot, which is described on the Amazon.com website review--that reviewer is actually making it sound like it's a watchable film(and trying to convince someone that fifth-rate Julia Stiles imitator Melissa Sagemiller is "Gwynethesque" is near blasphemy to a genuine talent). This film makes me wish Tom Cruise made more films like EYES WIDE SHUT and VANILLA SKY(hello, it's that bad). All I can say is run. Run as fast as you can.
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Summary: How many ways can I tell you "Don't see this movie" ?!
Review: I'm not ashamed to admit that the reason I even looked at this movie in the first place was because of Eliza Dushku (whom, at that point, I'd only seen in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the movie "True Lies.") I went in thinking, "Ooh, Eliza's in a horror movie, my favorite genre ! How can this movie fail ?!" Not long after I started watching, I figured out exactly how it could fail, because it didn't take very long at all for me to become completely confused. I watched it through to its conclusion, hoping to reach some semblance of an explanation for everything I'd seen and had been confused by up to that point....but I didn't. It left me with the impression that the director's main focus was not on developement of the characters or the advancement of the story, but rather it was keeping the audience confused that seemed to be the main goal, and if that is the case, then I will say that he at least succeeds in that respect. It most certainly worked on me. To make it worse, most of the actors don't even seem to know what they're doing, and aren't doing a very good job of covering up that fact. Even Eliza Dushku, my favorite actress, had no chance of saving this picture. If you feel like wasting about two hours of your life on a bad horror movie, "Soul Survivors" will do the trick. However, if you're looking for quality horror, then I suggest you look the direction of "Halloween," "A Nightmare On Elm Street," or "Scream."
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