#29 - My Soul to Take (2010)
(dir. Wes Craven)
Sixteen years ago, the serial killer known as the Riverton Ripper committed his final murder before he died in an ambulance accident. That same night, seven children were born in the local hospital. Now, on their 16th birthday, the teens are being killed one by one. Has the Ripper returned, or was he somehow reincarnated into one of the children?
This is pretty lousy, and arguably Wes Craven's worst film. It's a complete mess - the premise is fine, but the plot becomes too complicated and doesn't really make any sense by the end. The dialogue is terrible, and the characters are all boring and one-dimensional. I felt like it was trying very hard to be Scream with some supernatural elements, but it fails pretty spectacularly at that. Much of what made Scream great was Kevin Williamson's brilliant script - without it you have, well, this movie. It's frustrating, because it has moments where you can see Craven's talents as a director still shine, but they are few and far between.
Craven made some phenomenal films that are rightly considered classics of the horror genre - A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Hill Have Eyes, and Scream especially - but in my opinion he made just as many, if not more, bad ones. This is definitely one of the latter.
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