My Soul to Take

MY SOUL TO TAKE Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: February 8th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

Wes Craven has been making films for nearly forty years now, having made a huge impression with his 1972 picture Last House on the Left. And since then, Craven is just as likely to make a great film as a terrible one. Some horror directors – like John Carpenter – have an obvious hot streak, an uninrupted run of greatness, and most directors have periods where they’re doing great work, and off times. Whereas Craven followed A Nightmare on Elm St. with The Hills Have Eyes II. His 1996 film Scream is one of his best, which came a year after A Vampire in Brooklyn – easily one of his worst. Again, you never know. Craven is decidedly smart, but he’ll also pursue ideas that he seems passionate about or films that promise a paycheck. My Soul to Take was post-converted into 3-D and sat around for a while. It’s fascinating, though I don’t know which of the two categories it most belongs in – regardless, it leaves an impression. My review of My Soul to Take follows after the jump.

Weekend Box Office – THE SOCIAL NETWORK Stays On Top; LIFE AS WE KNOW IT Second; SECRETARIAT Third

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 10th, 2010 at 9:13 am

With some of the lowest totals I’ve seen since, um, Labor Day; Columbus Day 2010 got off to a weak start at the box office. Sure, The Social Network made a good showing in its second week, falling just 31% to push Life as We Know It into second place – but those two films combined could not match last year’s single debut Couple’s Retreat. Meanwhile Disney’s Secretariat stumbled badly, coming in a distant third in a race they hoped to win.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	The Social Network	$15,500,000	$46
2	Life as We Know It	$14,600,000	$14.6
3	Secretariat	$12,600,000	$12.6
4	Legends	$7,015,000	$39.4
5	My Soul to Take 3D	$6,900,000	$6.9
6	The Town	$6,350,000	$73.7
7	Wall Street 2	$4,625,000	$43.6
8	Easy A	$4,200,000	$48.1
9	Case 39	$2,630,000	$9.6
10	You Again	$2,470,000	$20.7

Friday Box Office – LIFE AS WE KNOW IT Number One with $5.2 Million; THE SOCIAL NETWORK Still in the Running as SECRETARIAT Limps

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 9th, 2010 at 9:05 am

As fall movies go, this weekend’s crop of new pictures was never the most interesting. Disney’s Secretariat, Warner Brothers’ Life as We Know It and the 3D horror release My Soul to Take all made modest starts on Friday; and with three days to go in this four-day Columbus Day Weekend it looks like the most fascinating aspect of the box office may be how close a race it will be between our top three contenders. That, of course, includes last weekend’s number one movie The Social Network, which placed second on Friday with an estimated $4.9 million. The natural front-runner for weekend winner, Secretariat, left the gate with $4 million – a fairly big disappointment for a heart-warming sports movie from Disney. That leaves the Katherine Heigl/Josh Duhamel baby dramedy Life as We Know It as Friday’s number one film with $5.2 million from 3,150 locations. With the horse movie running under and My Soul to Take not even on the same track, the weekend looks like a two-way race between the Facebook movie and the remake of Three Men and a Baby – neither of which is expected to make much more than $15 million by Sunday.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Life as We Know It	$5,200,000	$5.2
2	The Social Network	$4,900,000	$35.4
3	Secretariat	$4,000,000	$4
4	My Soul to Take	$2,700,000	$2.5
5	The Town	$1,800,000	$69.2

3 Clips from Wes Craven’s MY SOUL TO TAKE

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 5th, 2010 at 6:40 pm

We have three clips from Wes Craven’s first 3D film, My Soul to Take.  The story centers on a serial killer who swore to kill seven children who were born on the day he died.  Sixteen years have passed and it now looks like the killer is making good on his supernatural word.  The film stars Max Thieriot, Denzel Whitaker, Raul Esparza, and Shareeka Epps.

Hit the jump to check out the clips.  My Soul to Take opens in 3D this Friday.

New Images from HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, THE TOURIST, 127 HOURS, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, FASTER and More

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 30th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

With the fall movie season upon us, plenty of new images from upcoming movies have arrived online.  MTV has premiered new shots from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (release date: Nov. 19th), The Tourist (Dec. 10th), 127 Hours (Nov. 5th), Black Swan (Dec. 1st), Burlesque (Nov. 24th), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Dec. 10th), Faster (Nov. 24th), Gulliver’s Travels (Dec. 22nd), My Soul to Take (Oct. 8th), and Skyline (Nov. 12th).

Hit the jump to check out all of the images.

First Trailer for Wes Craven’s MY SOUL TO TAKE; Plus New Images and Poster

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: August 17th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

Before Wes Craven returned to the Scream franchise to direct a fourth installment, he assembled the likewise teen-centric My Soul to Take, his first feature since 2005′s Red Eye.  Universal has released the first trailer, and it works as a nice atmospheric tease for the horror film, centered around the legend of a serial killer who swore to murder the seven children born the night he died — “Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again.”  Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, and Denzel Whitaker star.  Check out the trailer, new images and the poster after the jump.

Wes Craven’s 25/8 Becomes MY SOUL TO TAKE

by Adam Charles    Posted: October 19th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

It took a while, but Wes Craven eventually realized that an extra hour added to each day doesn’t mathematically warrant an eighth day of the week, and has therefore opted to change the title of his latest film from “25/8″ to “My Soul to Take.”  When you say the two together it sounds like a made-up verse for the Freddie Krueger song by a child who hasn’t learned to count yet.  In any case, click the jump to hear more about the first written by/directed by film from Craven since 1994′s “New Nightmare.”

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