My soul to take

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Movie
German title My soul to take
Original title My soul to take
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wes Craven
script Wes Craven
production Wes Craven
Iya Labunka
Anthony Katagas
music Marco Beltrami
camera Petra Korner
cut Peter McNulty
occupation
synchronization

My Soul to Take is an American horror film from 2010. Wes Craven directed and wrote the screenplay. In addition to Max Thieriot, the leading roles are cast with Denzel Whitaker , John Magaro , Zena Gray , Nick Lashaway , Paulina Olszynski , Jeremy Chu and Emily Meade .

action

In 1994 a serial killer terrorized the small town of Riverton, which was soon given the name "Riverton Ripper". When he cruelly kills his pregnant wife and also raises the knife against his little daughter, the police storm into the house and shoot him several times. Assuming that he is dead, he is taken away by ambulance. The car is involved in a crash and the murderer, while trying to escape, appears to be shot by police officers. However, the corpse of the family father Abel Plenkov, who suffers from a schizophrenic dissociative identity disorder, cannot be found. On the night of his disappearance, seven children are born in Riverton, including Plenkov's son. Before he fled, the Ripper had sworn that he would kill these children one by one. It is said that the man had seven personalities, one of which is said to have enjoyed killing.

Sixteen years have passed since that night. The seven now 16-year-olds seem to have a strange connection to the "Riverton Ripper", it seems as if the killer was able to take possession of them in order to be able to continue his bloody deeds.

On the one hand there is the shy Adam 'Bug' Hellerman, who plays a very special role and shows signs of schizophrenia. He is the son of the infamous serial killer, but he doesn't know. He believes that May Hellerman, his aunt, is really his mother. Bug is rather fearful, but tends to violence as soon as he is provoked.

Bug's boyfriend is the nerdy Alex Dunkleman, who has a stepfather who abuses him and who is bullied by individuals at school. He often reacts surprisingly to verbal and physical attacks. For example, he thanks you when someone hits him.

Then there is Brittany Cunningham, a very beautiful girl that Bug is secretly in love with. She is well aware of her looks and is often a little beast. The "Riverton Seven", as they call themselves, also include the religious moral preacher Penelope Bryte, who is entirely devoted to Jesus Christ and the Bible, the tyrannical Brandon O'Neal, who has already taken heavy guilt, the blind Afro-American Jerome King, whom everyone loves, as well as Asian-born Jay, whose way home is over a small wooded bridge that connects to the Riverton River.

On this bridge, Jay becomes the first victim of the ripper, who now wears long dreadlocks . Little by little it hits almost everyone in the group, with other random victims who are simply in the wrong place. The way they all die is horrible. Bug is blamed, especially when his sister Fang tells him that May is not his mother, but actually his aunt, and that his father is the Ripper and that she herself is a child of the Ripper, and as a little girl witnessed her father's murder of her mother. Her father also attacked her with a knife, but she owed her life to the arrival of the police who shot him.

Cops Paterson and Jeanne-Baptiste have their hands full piecing the puzzle together to form the complete picture. In the end, except for Bug, who can stab the killer, all children who were born the night 16 years ago are dead.

production

Production notes

Production of the film began on April 21, 2008, as its release was initially scheduled for October 2009. The film was shot in New Milford , Danbury , Tolland and other locations in Connecticut .

The film was shot entirely in 2D and then, due to the current success of 3D films , converted to 3D.

Soundtrack

  • Plague Bearers by Karl Buechner , Scott Crouse, Ian Edwards, Dennis Merrick and Erick Edwards,
    Lecture: Earth Crisis
  • Fang's Gang , written and performed by Danny Saber
  • No You Girls , written and performed by Franz Ferdinand
  • Impossible by Russell Marsden, Emma Richardson and Matthew Hayward, Lecture: Band of Skulls
  • Everything Touches Everything by Jesse Elliott, Lecture: These United States
  • I Want you to Keep Everything by Jesse Elliott, Lecture: These United States

synchronization

The film was edited by RC Production Kunze & Wunder GmbH & Co. KG. The dialogue book was with Tobias Neumann , the dialogue direction with Björn Schalla .

role actor Voice actor
Bug Max Thieriot Julius Jellinek
Jerome Denzel Whitaker Raúl Richter
Alex John Magaro Hannes Maurer
Penelope Zena Gray Julia Kaufmann
Brandon Nick Lashaway Vanya Gerick
Brittany Paulina Olszynski Marie-Luise Schramm
Jay Jeremy Chu Dirk Petrick
Leah 'catch' Emily Meade Anne Helm
May Jessica Hecht Sabine Falkenberg
Abel Raúl Esparza Marcel Collé
Chandelle Shareeka Epps Anja Stadlober
Frank Paterson Frank Grillo Nicolas Boell
Jeanne-Baptiste Danai Jekesai Gurira Sarah Riedel
Dr. Blake Harris Yulin Klaus Sunshine
Bratt Dennis Boutsikaris Michael Pan
Mr. Kaiser Félix Solis Erich Rauker
Dr. Richard Cooper Michael Bell K. Dieter Klebsch
news reporter Robert Clotworthy Helmut Gauss

reception

publication

The film was released in Kazakhstan and Russia on October 7, 2010, and a day later in the United States, Canada and Turkey, October 21, 2010 in Ukraine, and October 27, 2010 in the Philippines and November 2010 in Thailand. It was published in Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil and Greece in December 2010. In 2011 it was shown in Mexico, China, Poland, Egypt, Vietnam, Argentina (DVD premiere there), the Czech Republic, Peru, the Netherlands and Italy (DVD premiere there) and in Spain. The film premiered on DVD or Blu-ray in 2011 in Japan, Finland, Sweden and Hungary. In France, it was presented at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in June 2012 and was released in cinemas on August 1, 2012. It was also published in Estonia, Croatia, Portugal, Romania and Serbia.

In Germany, the film was released in cinemas on February 3, 2011. The film had the English working titles 25/8 , Bug and Untitled Wes Craven Project . The English DVD title is My Soul to Take or My Soul to Take 3D .

On June 16, 2011 the film was released by Universal Pictures Germany GmbH with a German soundtrack on DVD.

criticism

Kino.de attested to the film that the "seemingly absurd story" [...] was "without much tension or slashing effects worth seeing" and came to the following conclusion:

“The suspicions that point to various possible perpetrators remain half-baked and the explanation is not very convincing. The acting performances of the largely unknown actors are average, the virtually non-existent 3D effects are downright annoying (the film was converted afterwards). The overall result is a soulless slasher flick with sparse moments of shock, which one could believe that it was just about 'my money to take'. "

- Kino.de

Cinefacts was of the opinion that this Wes Craven film was a reminder "that the specialist in horror cinema in his long career by no means only produced successful works". “Still, you could have expected a little more than an unexciting teen slasher. Everything has been seen better before - partly at Craven himself. "With the exception of Harris Yulin, the actors are" largely unknown young actors who in turn do not stick in the memory ". Conclusion: "Unimaginative teen slasher of a horror old master who only warms up stale ingredients here."

The Moviepilot saw it a little differently , there they talked about “goose bumps in the cinema halls”. Up-and-coming talent Max Thieriot was certified to have drawn attention to himself again.

Filmfutter was of the opinion that although there were "some scenes and shots worth seeing", "the timing of the main plot, the murders, was often so inappropriate" that they would "cause more amazement than horror". Conclusion: “The return of cult director Wes Craven to horror relies too much on the well-known and flopps even in the sub-genre 'teen slasher', which is not too demanding. Just as well-intentioned advice: everyone who has nothing to do with this sub-genre should rather go quickly search. By no means are those who cannot stand blood and slaughter, because these are in a sense nonexistent in this 'Slasher' film. "

At Darkagent , the question is asked what a newcomer or commissioned director would have made of this material, but what one would rather not even imagine. Although the film has now "really not become a masterpiece either", the director somehow manages to "exude a peculiar form of hardened naivete", is "agile, experienced and in a word simply clever". It also said: “Horror film fans who just want to be showered will surely find this film boring here - too little blood flows, there is no sex and there is hardly any cynicism. But if you manage to read between the lines and manage to recognize all the unobtrusive references, then you will have a lot of fun with this old-fashioned 'serial killer horror movie charm'. "

The review at Filmfreunde also came to a similar result as Darkagent and found: “The sensual coarseness of the film is far too appealing to be able to dismiss the at least narrative confusion as mere amateurism. […] Craven also varies images from his previous films, reinterprets them or reduces them to absurdity in a sometimes infantile, then again highly fascinating manner. […] The curious anticlimax finale finally tops off this strategy (?), Which fluctuates between crazy and ingeniously ingenious: Wes Craven carefully lined up his storyboards in the credits to give structure to all supposedly haphazard nonsense retrospectively. "

Commercial win

Due to the low success, the production costs, which amounted to 25 million US dollars, could not be recovered. Worldwide revenues were around $ 21 million.

Negative award

  • 2011: Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
    • nominated for the Chainsaw Award in the "Worst Film" category

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for My Soul to Take . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 620 K).
  2. ↑ Michael Fleming: Craven to direct '25/8 'for Rogue , Variety . February 12, 2008. Retrieved September 26, 2009. 
  3. ↑ My Soul to Take in the German dubbing index
  4. ↑ a b c Kino.de: My Soul to Take Filmkritik sS kino.de (incl. Trailer). Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ My Soul to Take Fig. Universal DVD case
  6. ↑ My Soul to Take sS moviepilot.de. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ My Soul to Take sS filmfutter.com. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ My Soul to Take film review see darkagent.blogsit.net. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ My Soul to Take sS fuenf-filmfreunde.de. Retrieved August 16, 2018.