... ‘The Omen’ is the classic about the return of Satan to claim his inheritance and ‘Lost Souls’ wants the best of both worlds.
It begins with the botched exorcism of a psychiatric patient. During the exorcism the name of the Anti-Christ is revealed to Maya (Winona ... Read review
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scrambling of themes fromThe Omen,The ExorcistandRosemary's Baby. It is more serious and stylish thanEnd of Days,StigmataandBless the Child, but stuck with a screenplay...
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From Janusz Kaminski, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer of Schindler's List and ... more
Saving Private Ryan, comes the supernatural thriller Lost Souls. It stars Winona Rider as devout Catholic Maya Larkin, who is convinced that the devil is about to w...
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fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham from a rising star in the crime genre. A woman is found brutally murdered on a quiet housing estate her tongue and eyes ritualistically gouged out. Children are being abducted and then returned to their families days later without a scratch and with no knowledge or where they have been - or with whom. If DC Laura McGanity thought moving from London to sleepy Lancashire was taking the easy option then she can think again. Already worried about uprooting young son Bobby to follow her reporter boyfriend Jack Garrett back to his hometown she must quickly get a handle on these mystifying cases terrifying the people of Blackley - without putting the local officers' noses out of joint. Meanwhile restless Jack is itching to get back to his writing and the cases provide the perfect opportunity to do so. But as he delves deeper into them he finds murky connections between the two crimes and skeletons buried in the most unlikely of closets.Most astonishing of all he meets a man who 'paints' the future - terrible events come to him in vivid dreams which he then puts onto canvas.This 'precognition' is not so much a gift as a curse and to Jack it becomes terrifyingly that many people including his own family are in danger!
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Production Year: 2005 - Horror - Director: Eli Roth - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Shane Daly, Lenka Vlasakova, Eythor Gudjonsson, Jan Vlasak
Advantages: Well crafted, well acted thriller. Disadvantages: Originality, soundtrack.
...then I think that ‘The Lost Souls’ might be up there in the top ten, however where it really loses out is in the soundtrack. Both ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Omen’ had tremendous, rip-roaring, unforgettable soundtracks, which added immeasurably to the suspense and anticipation, but ‘The Lost Souls’ has nothing comparable.
An excellent film then, but it misses out on greatness.
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Comparisons are odious, but unfortunately this film invites them. ‘The Exorcist’ set the standard for films about demonic possession. ‘The Omen’ is the classic about the return of Satan to claim his inheritance and ‘Lost Souls’ wants the best of both worlds.
It begins with the botched exorcism of a psychiatric patient. During the exorcism the name of the Anti-Christ is revealed to Maya (Winona Ryder) and the film follows her attempts to convince him of the coming Transformation which will occur on his thirty third birthday. The plot then, is not too complex.
The real strength of this film is in the characterisation of the main players. Winona Ryder gives a superb performance as a girl teetering on the edge of madness; you can almost feel the pressure. Similarly, Ben Chaplin, who plays Peter Kelson, the soon to be Anti-Christ, gives a bravura display. Initially sceptical, as the plot unwinds, you can almost taste his growing fear and panic. John Hurt, as a priest, is in there as well, but spends most of the time catatonic. Still, it pays the rent I suppose. The ending is original and surprising, so I’ll say no more about it.
Where this film scores highly is in its realism. It is thoughtful. It doesn’t rely on projectile vomit or gratuitous decapitations; instead it has people reacting as they might really react when told that they are the spawn of Satan. The lighting is atmospheric to the point where you wonder if they can make a decent light bulb in the U. S., but the suspense builds nicely.
Had I never seen the two films that I mentioned, then I think that ‘The Lost Souls’ might be up there in the top ten, however where it really loses out is in the soundtrack. Both ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Omen’ had tremendous, rip-roaring, unforgettable soundtracks, which added immeasurably to the suspense and anticipation, but ‘The Lost Souls’ has nothing comparable.
An excellent film then, but it misses out on greatness.
Ironically for an industry so clearly embarrassed by the genre that spawned enfant terribles such as Hooper and Romero, Hollywood has a long-held tradition of cannibalising itself, with every conceivable cinematic and generic theme being constantly explored, revisited, updated and rehashed. In some instances these revised texts are successful in breathing new life into a tired old formula, the most obvious example being he recent glut of horror movies ... ...its particular blend of post-modern irony and prerequisite lashings of blood, but it didn’t take long for a succession of sequels and blatant rip-offs to follow this slasher into the multiplexes. It’s popularity proved a couple of things; people enjoy watching beautiful 90210-types being brutally butchered by a masked maniac (no surprises there) and that horror has some of the most loyal fans of any genre. Audiences flocked to The Blair Witch Project ...
maxshreck 18.07.2001
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Advantages: Scary Disadvantages: Not a surprice ending
...best out of those three.
Lost Souls, is a modern horror movie which has all the elements of the classic moments. Many shocking seconds, where the audience will break the back of their seats. A serious and gripping amosphere was build up straight away during the first 15 mins of the film. It is very much a flim to do with exorcism and the Evil. Driving out evil spirits by prayers, sometime it worked, sometime it doesn't, and have the opposite effect. ... ...would! Because of all that, the whole film is full of tension and very very scary moments. Plus a great soundtrack from 'Gomez', perfectly directed and casted.
Winona Ryder's performence seems to be good, but really all she has to do is being herself in her usual roles. I am not a big fan of the endings of this sort of films from the pass experience with the 'Exorcist' and 'Stigmata', and 'Lost Souls' is the same. The rest is brillient.
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pulp 18.10.2000
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Advantages: Nice Trailer, actually more promising than the movie itself! Disadvantages: They tried and they failed to make a movie about a difficult genre
I first heard of Lost Souls in a Trailer clip that advertised it before as I was waiting for Unbreakable to start in a local Cinema...
I must admit the initial trailer for the movie had me gripped as it portrayed what I felt looked and sounded like an excellent potential movie for me to see on my next trip to Warner Village Cinema... Sadly however when I did return to see the 'full' version of Lost Souls it turned out that the original trailer for ... ...the Film in its entirety.. Lost Souls is one of those very poor films that somehow managed to make it to the Cinema instead of going straight to its rightful home on the bottom shelf of the Video Store or the obscure late night TV schedule of Bravo or the Sci Fi Channel...
The Genre of Satan / The Devil / Exorcsism is a very tough genre to tell a decent story with it seems when it comes to the movie world. Indeed only the Exorcist, The Omen amd ...
gcooper 20.01.2001
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Advantages: The atmosphere created Disadvantages: The ending
The film is about religious fanatic (played by Winona Ryder) who believes Satan is about to take a man’s body and walk the earth. She finds out a man that writes about murderers is the body that Satan will take. She has to try to do something to stop this from happening. This film is very easy to get into. The plot develops quite early in the film so you get interested straight away. The atmosphere built up quickly. There are some weird moments ... ...but there were strange and creepy. It had an eerie feel to it. The content and the subject of the film really makes you think about the powers of good and evil and whether or not they really exist. It leaves you with something to think about as well as being slightly creepy.
This film isn’t really as good as some of the other horror films. I much preferred ‘The Exorcist’. This is because ‘The Exorcist’ was more visually ...
crazymullets 23.05.2001
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Advantages: Above average horror - with Winona Ryder! Disadvantages: Could have been a lot better
I should state early on that I am a big fan of Horror (especially religious/psychological horror) and I’m also a huge fan of Winona Ryder. Although I will try to be objective, a small amount of bias is bound to creep in…sorry!
Winona Ryder plays a woman who was once possessed by a demon who had to be exorcised. After several years have passed she finds herself helping to exorcise a guy who also claims to be possessed. At this exorcism ... ...reborn soon in the body of a man, Ben Chaplin. Winona then has to convince him of this and help him before it is too late, problem is, Chaplin is an atheist…
OK so this isn’t exactly as good as the Exorcist but it ain't bad either. It is by far the best horror film to be released this year (so far and that’s excluding The Hole as horror). Winona doesn’t exactly push herself to great new heights but she is still good, as is ...
Staggly 23.05.2001
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Gray sums up Butley's "self-destructive vanity" in his DVD commentary, saying that he's "Got a lot of passion, but it hasn't got a focus. He's a lostsoul. He's full of a sort of energy that's become demonic. He's not sure that teaching is of any use; he's feasting off the dregs of his relationships. The other characters all have something in their lives that mean something to them. He clearly doesn't."
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Maya Larkin was once demonically possessed and discovers that an author is about to become the antichrist incarnate. She is determined that this will not happen...
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"...[A] solid cast....Kaminski has created a dark destabilized universe that was apparently inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon..." (Variety, p.22, 09/10/2000)
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Years ago, priests exorcised a demon out of young Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder). Now she uses her unusual sensitivity to the same demons who once came after her to help the priests in other exorcisms. In one such case, a serial killer named Henry Birdson (John Diehl) claims to know the name of a man who will soon be possessed by Satan, beginning a reign of evil over the world. Maya discovers that the man in question is Peter Kelson (Ben Chaplin), an author of true-crime books who has both wealth and fame but no religious faith. At first Peter is skeptical, but a series of strange and mysterious clues indicates that he might indeed be the victim of a massive satanic conspiracy. Maya and Peter must work together to learn how to reverse what has already begun before time runs out. A haunting and creepy religious horror movie in the tradition of ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE EXORCIST, LOST SOULS features shocking, disturbing imagery and a deeply rooted sense of human mortality.
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