My Soul to Take is a bit less niche than most. It was billed as horror icon Wes Craven's first 3-D movie. Its general plot involves several people who are killed one by one, leaving you to question who the killer is.
Sixteen years ago a schizophrenic killer (Raul Esparza) was threatening the small town where the film takes place. On the night when his child is born, he goes on one final spree and is involved in a car crash. But no body was found. On that same night, several other babies are born, and 16 years later it is rumored one of them, including the man’s son, has inherited his soul and begins terrorizing the town again.
The film’s action throughout implies that one of the kids has been possessed by the supposed dead man, so leaves many red herrings around as to 1) if the man really died to begin with, and 2) which kid is possessed and is a new killer. Each of the seven kids born on that earlier night, including the son, are in turn suspected but killed until there are just two at the end with a showdown. Along for the ride is the son’s half-sister, and she factors in on some of the action.
The plotting of each teen dying is typically handled, trying to up the ante of each death as to originality or gore. At the end though where there are just two of them left, the logic of the entire mystery is unclear and illogical. The 3-D effects were minimal and not very special and don't enhance the film in any way, and I read this was a 2-D film converted to 3-D. Teens in the movie (both the suspected killers and friends/siblings) were played by Jeremy Chu, Zena Grey, Nick Lashaway, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Paulina Olszynski, Max Thieriot, Denzel Whittaker. Jessica Hecht plays the mother of one of the kids and Frank Grillo plays the policeman investigating the cold case. All in all, a pretty unoriginal horror film.
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