Wow...I am speechless. I don't know where to start or what to say. Wes Craven's newest shitfest may be the single worst film I have ever seen in my life. I am not kidding, I have seen alot of films and I cannot think of a worse film than My Soul to Take. If I really hate a person and I wanted them to feel pure pain for an hour and 40 minutes, I would make them watch this. The military can now use this film for torture tactics against the Taliban.
I seriously have been staring at this screen for a good 10 minutes, not knowing what to say. I honestly feel dumber after having seen this pile of dung. I think I can explain the plot. But it is difficult because it literally makes zero sense. It has something to do with a killer with split personalities being killed and 16 years later, seven kids who were born on the day he died are now being haunted by the killer. Something along those lines because I am unsure if that is even true. The film is a mess in every way so might as well start with the script. Blame that on Craven as well, he wrote this crap. The screenplay is so inept and so confusing, no one knew what was going on through out this film. Scenes were edited so choppily or dragged on for so long and each scene had NOTHING to do with any of the other scenes. I counted at least 20 times where I said outloud, "What?" with a laugh because I found it funny. In fact, I was screaming with laughter at certain lines of dialogue ( "I want to see my unborn child." "Fuck your fucking unborn child!" ) or scenes that wouldn't end (high schoolers presenting a science project which had nothing to do with the story) or the opening of the film that was suppose to set up the story but had everyone so confused and wondering what they just saw. I guess this is either the worst film ever made or the funniest film of 2010.
The acting right from the get go is atrocious. Lines are delivered so flat and plain, it was groan inducing. Now the question remains, is the acting awful OR was it the lines that they were given bad? I think a combination of both. The characters themselves are so annoying and so phony, it was amazing in itself. I kept thinking: This can't really be happening right? Is this a joke?
The music is also awful. The music cues don't match at all with what is going on screen. The music isn't suspensful or scary or builds any suspense at all.
And the film just refused to end! Scenes would go on forever and it just wouldn't stop. The greatest sin for any movie is to be boring. Wes Craven has commited the sin. His film Vampire in Brooklyn is Citizen Kane compared to this. And this isn't one of those "so bad it's good" movies. No this is plain bad. Beyond bad.
And the 3-D sucked as well! It didn't work whatsoever however it did accomplish plenty of blurry images and ghostly characters that shouldn't have been seen. I swear this movie had to have been converted into 3-D as it looked lousy and after awhile I watched the film without the glasses and the picture looked fine to me. So yeah, I paid $13 for this turd. Maybe it was God's will for me to see this so I can warn you all about this putrid mess. Stay...far..away. I am serious. Don't go near it. The man who created Freddy is dead. I mock Romero, Carpenter and Raimi for making lousy horror films in their later years, but Mr. Craven... you are now the king. Congratulations. You haven't just made the worst film of 2010, you have made the worst film in your career. And crying about the MPAA or blaming the distributor won't work this time. The game is up.
