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Dead Souls (2012)
Directed by Colin Theys
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Overview
On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he’s come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew…
Rated R | Length 93 minutes
Actors
Bill Moseley | Jesse James | Magda Apanowicz | Geraldine Hughes | Noah Fleiss | Jaiden Kaine | J.H. Torrance Downes | Elizabeth Irene | Kyle Donnery | Bridget Megan Clark | Kevin Shea
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28/2023 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Shifting from the 1980s to the early 2010’s, the sixth film of Scream, Secret Cinema, Scream! horror marathon is the made-for-Chiller-channel DEAD SOULS. I came across this while searching for another film with a similar theme and was intrigued by the trailer. This is the kind of small-to-modest budget (but not indie small budget) horror film that peaked during the early to mid-2010s, many of which then just dropped off the collective film radar.
This is a weird mix of religious family and fish-out-of-water horror that throws in enough red herrings to keep you guessing. It features some gory, muscle-clenching violence, especially in the opening and closing set pieces and makes effective use of its mostly single location farmhouse and barn. I love that the house really has a decrepit, abandoned feel to it that comes across as authentic.
I appreciate that it paints the plot with broad strokes and leaves the viewer to fill in some logical gaps (like why the dog keeps coming back to life) without having to do mental calculus to get there.
Genre stalwart Bill Moseley pops up in this as Sherriff Depford. I really like Magda Apanowicz’s mysterious character Emma. This came out a year before she would star in Eli Roth’s THE GREEN INFERNO, which I might have to rewatch now just for her.
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