Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

TheMarwood When Universal sold off their genre branch Rogue, what was then titled 25/8 sat collecting some dust until reshoots were ordered and a 3D post conversion added. The hostile reception and unpopularity of this film will probably never produce a director's cut, so I doubt we'll ever know if the original version is as messy as the released product, but boy is My Soul to Take a mess. The tone is all over the place and it barely makes a lick of sense, but as misguided as the film is, it's actually entertaining. The premise is complete nonsense about a killer with seven different personalities, who dies and somehow the personalities transfer to the wombs of seven unborn children. At their 16th birthdays they begin to get killed in typical slasher movie style and one of these kids is absorbing their souls - or something like that. Every teen character is an archetype and the end twist is as illogical as it is unsatisfactory. Bug's sister runs the school from the bathroom? Bug runs around his classroom dressed as a giant condor? Make no mistake, this is a ridiculous film that doesn't ever work and tries to create an aire of mystery with some half baked mythology, but its clumsiness has some charm. It's not nearly as toxic as its reputation and it's never boring.

twomainiacs Whew.....everyone's a critic. If you like scary movies....strange, scary movies.....strange, scary movies with a plot.....strange, scary movies with a plot and fairly good ending.....then get the popcorn and have a good time with this one.Look.....if I took every movie I have ever seen so seriously I had to dump on it more than enjoy it. Well.....there would be a lot of movies I would never watch. My Soul To Take is a good movie. It keeps you wondering, guessing and a little annoyed you didn't see it coming.Admittedly, I do scroll through the reviews to get an idea of how people viewed the movie and how they rated it.I have my own 5 Star system which got this film a 4.5.If you are new to IMDb.....never, ever take the scoring system to heart. Even a really BAD film based on reviews will perk my interest to watch it and see for myself. For those of you who use IMDb regularly.....this movie didn't earn the 4.7 it got. I would have said 8 out of 10 personally......but then that is me.Please don't throw this one away based on critics who "know the price of everything and the value of nothing"....Zonker from his guru days.......enjoy......Cookie Q(:-}

Alucard Venom I avoided this movie when it came to theaters, and decided to watch it tonight. I've heard it was bad, but I decided to check it out anyway since I still have respect for Wes Craven as filmmaker. In fact, I think his directing skills are very good, it's just that he either works with horrible script or tries too much to please the audiences. and "My Soul to Take" is no exception. It's probably the worst Craven movie to this day. Plot is basically the same as Elm Street 2, and that's interesting - Wes Craven borrowing heavily from a sequel to one of his movies, but MSTT suffers from trying to hard to be too smart and complex, instead of being a simple straight-forward slasher film. Characters are horrible, non of them are likable. They are either over- the-top stereotypes, or just boring. I really have no problem with stereotypical characters if they are interesting and done in witty way (several movies did that), but characters in MSTT had some of the worst mindblowing bad dialogues. You can do a really good drinking game, taking one shot each time one of the characters said dumber line then his preview one, or something stupid happens in the movie. This is what happens when man in his 60 tries to write a movie about teens in their 16. Also, there's a huge problem where one of the scenes does the whole exposition for the entire movie and what's going on. It felt too forced and exposition didn't came naturally. The villain is not very interesting, nor is he very intimidating like Craven's preview villains (Gang from HHE, Freddy or even Ghostface). You remember Coolio? Now imagine that Coolio is a movie character, made on Youtube movie quality with his face painted in white. There you have, Wes Craven's Ripper. His one liners are ridiculous (aren't those outdated anyway???) and he is arguably one of the dumbest slashers in history of slasher movies. Now, movie tries to be cute sometimes, but that's another thing.On the positive side: It's actually well directed. Craven still knows how to lead the story with his visuals and lure into false sense of security. It had one or two moments, but good direction didn't help to save horrible screenplay. There are few jump scares but they aren't overused and they never become annoyance (they also don't explode with loud musical orchestra in the background). Also, this movie has similar frames to the Craven's '80s movies, which I found rather interesting. Cinematography is still modern, but camera angles and composition looks like a movie made in late '80s-early-mid '90s. There's also "The Curse of the Wes Craven" moment here, which plagues this director from the beginning of his career - he doesn't know how to end movie properly.Soundtrack is forgettable.Note: There's only one funny scene where two lead characters do presentation of California Condor at their class. It's unnecessary scene and doesn't advance the plot in any way, but it's kinda funny and weird. It also feels like a random scene that's taken from some other movie and edited by mistake, which makes it even funnier. Overall, it's bad, it's pretty bad, probably one of the Craven's worst. Even worse then Scream 4, and that says a lot.

Jackson Booth-Millard The title was certainly catchy, and I was willing to give the film a chance despite the critics only giving it a rating of two of five stars, especially being directed by Wes Craven (The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream). Basically the opens with multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia suffering Abel Plenkov (Raúl Esparza), whose alter ego is The Riverton Ripper, murders his pregnant wife and counsellor Dr. Blake (Bean's Harris Yulin), and later in the night when he dies his seven personalities leave his body and are transferred into the bodies of seven children born on that night. Sixteen years pass, all celebrating their sixteenth birthdays are Adam 'Bug' Hellerman (Max Thieriot), Alex Dunkelman (John Magaro), Jerome King (Denzel Whittaker), Penelope Bryte (Zena Grey), Brandon O'Neil (Nick Lashaway), Brittany Cunningham (Paulina Olszynski) and Jay Chan (Jeremy Chu), and they are having a get together in the area the killer was last seen. One by one during the night the teenagers are being brutally killed by The Riverton Ripper who has returned, five out of seven of the children are slaughtered, and also Bug's adoptive mother May (Jessica Hecht). Police officer Detective Frank Patterson (Frank Grillo) had been investigating the murders sixteen years previously, but he is killed as well, Bug's older sister Leah 'Fang' (Emily Meade) is wounded but survives, and Bug himself is shocked to find out that he is the son of Alan Plenkov, the killer. People have been killed within the Hellerman household by the Ripper, then his best friend Alex crawls through the window, Bug realises the Ripper's soul was transferred into his friend's body, Alex reveals he murdered his abusive stepfather. After a struggle Bug stabs Alex and the soul of the Ripper is sent back to Hell, Bug is sure that he will be arrested being suspected as the killer, but being the last alive he is seen as a hero, all he can do is act up to this. Also starring Dennis Boutsikaris as Principal Pratt, Shareeka Epps as Chandelle and Trevor St. John as Lake. The film started relatively interesting, with the man possessed with a demonic soul, that of a psychopathic murderer, it did sort of interest me the main plot with teenagers killed on the day the killer died, but the plot is too muddled up and filled with complicated bits, apart from some of the deaths and maybe one okay twist it was boring, a disappointing horror thriller. Adequate!