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· Year: 2001
· Director: Stephen Carpenter
· Writer: Stephen Carpenter
· Cast: Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley
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After a college-bound woman is involved in a car accident in which one of her friends is killed, she begins seeing his ghost--and starts to think she's being hunted by other, less friendly entities.
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RATING
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29
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ATMOSPHERE
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GORE
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HUMOR
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SCARES
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TENSION
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When "The World of the Dead and the World of the Living are About to Collide" . . . you better hope you're watching Carnival of Souls. Or Jacob's Ladder. Or the maligned remake of Carnival of Souls. Anything but Soul Survivors. After all, the conceit the plot of Soul Survivors revolves around--more on that in a moment--was pretty much ripped out of several classic horror films. This flick is composed of horror clichés piled on one another: Goth, religious imagery, dream sequences, faintly kinky sex, "scary" visions, and plenty of blood. Furthermore, in this cinematic world of post-postmodern horror, when it's again trendy to take horror seriously, it's nice to see a character pull a trick straight out of an eighties slasher movie. For example, can someone please explain to me why Melissa Sagemiller's character, who is afraid she's being hunted, knowingly runs out of a crowded rave--and into an abandoned basement? And as for the big mystery surrounding the events in the film? Well, when movie dialogue doesn't make sense in a given situation, and in Soul Survivors much of it doesn't, the audience will attempt to give said dialogue a reasonable framework. As a result, an audience member stands a good shot at figuring the movie out, and not far into watching it.
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