Lost Souls

This was a fairly good "Devil" story and certainly worth renting.GOOD - Decent suspense and cinematography and kudos for pointing out there IS a Satan and converting a non-believer to that fact. Winona Ryder looks very pretty, too, as good... Full review

Winona Ryder pre-shoplifting days, stars in this dull thriller as french teacher who was possessed by the devil and now become a expert in exorcisms. Ben Chaplin is the young man who Ryder goes after to save from being posessed. In... Full review

This Film is Okay.All you Basher Guys are suckers really for Overrated Goddfather genre Films...Ideally you could watch a Porn flick and say that this is better,but there is something more than Action packed films in Life Indolents!... Full review

I really liked the photography in this film. Many of the scenes were filmed on dark rainy afternoons which was perfect for the type of story it was. Memorable performances by Wynona Rider and Ben Chaplin. I have seen this film... Full review

Director Janusz Kaminski is best known as being Spielberg's favourite cinematographer and has won cinematography Oscars for SCHINDLER'S LIST and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN . This no doubt explains why in Kaminski's LOST SOULS the cinematography seems to be the most... Full review

Spare yourself! This is not worth your time. The acting was clearly acting, the twists were laughable, and the ending a huge let down. Scary? I am quite sure not.... Full review

1999-2000 was the time of 'devil' movies and most of them stunk but this was the worst.We had Stigmata,End of Days and Bless the Child as well as the excellent theatrical re-release of the Exorcist but this was the bottom of... Full review

After some consideration, my theory on what is wrong with this film is this:if you do a good job of building tension and suspense in a movie, you should have something really impressive to show for it at the end.... Full review

Very passionate score was what made me like this film.The violin was played to perfection and i loved every bit of it.Due low bugdet the visuals were fairly average,though idea was grotesque and chilly sometimes.... Full review

I liked the idea of film...All these horrendous comments are flabbergasting for me to say the least.This befuddles me,since the central idea of Film although very basic is very appealing...i am sure you can still watch Terminator 60000 times and not... Full review

The abrupt, "oh-screw-it" conclusion is the final nail in this weak demon. His atmospheric visual details can't save the film from Pierce Gardiner's routine, repetitive, and quite rueful script. ... Full Review

and the film is most compelling when it focuses on his dilemma--that he doesn't want to be the locus of evil on earth.....There's a distracting barrage of slow motion, over-exposure and jittery speed effects.....Less satisfying is the derivative exorcism subplot.... ... Full Review

First off, it is very well done, the cinematography is excellent. You'll definitely find elements of just about every movie you've ever seen about demonic possession mixed in here. ... Full Review

so much better in movies like Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Omen (1976), classics to which Lost Souls clearly owes a debt.....interesting subplots are merely hinted at then go nowhere.... ... Full Review

And, like them, Lost Souls is dumb, anachronistic and takes itself way, way too seriously. All this pretension makes Lost Souls very easy to dislike, and the cast just toss more grist into that mill. ... Full Review

Fall spotlight on movies - denotes a movie to watch."Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski).More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. ... Full Article

"Lost Souls" is one of those films that did not come to a theater here, so I rented the DVD when it became available, just to see what all the fuss was about. ... Full Article

Lost Souls stars Winona Ryder as a former victim of demonic possession. Maybe it?s Satan who's been making Ryder's career choices lately -- at least that might explain the awful Autumn in New York and this appalling horror show. ... Full Article

Die Credits laufen spiegelverkehrt, gelegentlich formt sich ein Name aus einem Zahlencode. Damit ist eigentlich auch schon alles gesagt: Aus Überresten von anderen Filmen, nicht zuletzt hat man das Skript für Lost Souls zusammengesetzt und das Zuschauerinteresse, das man aus... ... Full Article

The Vatican 's latest recruitment film, Lost Souls , bitch-smacks the fear of Linda Blair into hapless nonbelievers, proposing agnosticism as the real opiate of the Satan-prone masses. ... Full Article

Ya have to feel for the poor fallen guy. Not only was he cast out of paradise for, if you believe his PR people, the minor offense of trying to show up the boss, but now he is reduced to... ... Full Article