Evil Souls (2015)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Valentine (Peter Cosgrove) is a Marquis de Sade wanna-be who kidnaps and tortured women complete with costume and harpsichord music. The characters in the film are the adults from the back and white childhood scene where Albert, the future priest, didn't participate. We don't know why, but he didn't. There seems to be a ghost story, demon story, and one of a satanic cult. Valentine's rambles on during the film and doesn't say much. There was no way to identify with the characters from the little to no build up. The "horror" aspect consisted of a lot of quick facila close-ups with some ominous music as well as the quick jerk camera with ominous music, generally without us knowing why the kid's furrowed eyebrows are supposed to frighten us. The acting wasn't there.Then there was the twist ending which could have made a good horror film a classic, but just made this one worse.This is what the film says about itself "A child is born with a prophecy preordained. The guardian of the room unleashes his wrath on those who challenge his will. His evil soul knows no boundary as he ravages his sister in sexual gratification, selling her to the highest bidder. Fate is written, but Valentine has to fulfill his destiny. kidnapping two girls he is intent upon unleashing hell, until a priest, sensing ancient evil, knows he must find a way to stop it. With subterfuge, hate, denial and lust, the journey to a room of terror has just begun.... "Some of this information comes late and none of which is actually clear. Peter Cosgrove's character really sucked.Guide: F-word. Bloody nude dead torso.

Horror? Really? This one made me reluctantly sad than being scared! Because you can't every time make a horror flick workout by showing an evil and a priest... Till the interval I felt myself to be in a total puzzle as to what the hell had gotten in a geek just relentlessly kidnapping probably single moms and harassing them for his lust...The worst part you want to know? The bastard didn't even leave his own prostitute sister (still...) Although some scenes were setup horrifically good, still more of blood lust was visible than horror. Movie also didn't even do any good while explaining the plot as one can't just think of just a simply old in day concept of priest preventing the birth of evil with so much over exaggeration.... The whore already amazes me much more when she on one hand has a thing for the priest but still assaults him! Really? How on earth can you name a psycho thriller as horror! Still somewhat fine for building tension at the end and the geeky brother...

Unless this film was a highly meta commentary on the nature of schizophrenia as shown through its film making style then it was an utter shambles. There are so many plot points that aren't properly explained and events that seem to have no purpose. It really does make you wonder why someone would throw this whole thing together.It fails to be a compelling movie on nearly every level: story, acting, directing, editing and music are all not really there and I still have no real clue as to what the goal for making this was.Overall it should just be avoided since there really is very little of note, even on a 'so bad it's good' level.

On the bright side the film was professionally shot. That is about it for compliments.Professional reviews and the summary here on IMDb gave the impression this is an intense gore filled "roller coaster". Instead it is a disjointed thrown against the wall to see what would stick mush of PG-13 gore (every time something gruesome happens the camera cuts away so we never honestly see what the "victim" was screaming about), loose possession, demonic ritual, insanity, God, De Sade, and children doing something really awful 25 years ago; but we never are clear on what exactly they did! Couple this with a music score that drowns out key portions of dialog and it is headache inducing!The icing on the cake is the actor playing Valentino. He is so over the top he was in the clouds! A parody of a parody of a joke of a madman.Whatever your taste is in genre horror this film gives you nothing to hold on to or praise as fulfilling a mission statement.