Soul Reaper

When I sat down in 2021 to watch the 2019 horror movie "Soul Reaper", it was because it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. And given the chance to watch it, of course I did. And I have to say that I actually found the movie's cover to be interesting.

So writers Bob Pipe and Richard Sandling had every opportunity to impress and entertain me where with "Soul Reaper", as I knew nothing about it, aside from it being a horror movie.

But wow, "Soul Reaper" with director Bob Pipe at the helm, just failed to entertain me in every aspect. The storyline was just too cluttered and lacked to have a proper structured narrative to it. So it felt like I was watching a series of random segments shots individually and then put together to make a horror movie. It just didn't work. And it most certainly wasn't entertaining or enjoyable.

The characters in the movie were bland and very forgettable. Now, I am sure that the actors and actresses involved in the movie were putting on good performances, but they virtually had nothing solid to work with in terms of a proper script or interesting characters.

I made it to the halfway marker, then I just gave up on the movie out of utter and sheer boredom. Nothing interesting had happened up to halfway through the movie, and I doubt that anything interesting would happen in the last half of the movie. And truth be told, I just doesn't care if it does or not, because the script failed to capture my interest entirely.

For a horror movie then "Soul Reaper" was just a swing and a miss. There was absolutely nothing scary about the movie. Unless you consider a pointless storyline as being scary.

My rating of the 2019 horror movie "Soul Reaper" lands on a two out of ten stars. This movie just isn't worth the time, money or effort. And ultimately, the movie's cover was the best thing about the entire ordeal.

One of the worst horror movies I have watched recently on Netflix. From bad acting, to a script written by someone who probably either never visited the UK, or bears a particular amount of malice towards the country. Come on mate, our pubs aren't really that unfriendly to begin with. And I say this having actually gone to some pretty remote parts of the country. Pubs are quite welcoming, and no one hates Americans!

Where to start? I'm about 40 minutes in and most of that was wasted. The characters are unlikable, the sound track is shockingly jarring and bad... We don't have cabins in the woods in the UK. You might find a caravan park or chalets, but we don't have Evil Dead style cabins like that here. We don't hate Americans (unless they're rude etc) and our small pubs generally welcome customers as they're all in fear of being shut down. Was this shot in America with a few Brit actors or shot in the UK with people who hate the country? There just isn't anything to like so far APART FROM (No spoilers) a hilarious scene with hammers - though I'm not sure it was supposed to be funny or menacing? The tone is all over the place, the script is terrible and ripping off a lot of much better horror movies. Is is supposed to be a 'so bad it's good' low budget horror is were they just bad at making it? I don't really care anymore, it's not worth the hassle.

If you enjoyed school of the damned you'll enjoy this. For anyone else 90%+ people it's crap, I wonder if Netflix got a job lot of crap films thinking the pandemic would make us lower our standards.

Soul Reaper: This film had potential: an English pub called The Jolly Hangman, full of odd locals; a gathering at a cabin in he woods. A well meaning Psychotic killer dispatching people with a hammer, Occult Rituals. Even a Gateway to Hell. But the whole thing is a mess, just does't hang together and the effects are wanting. Somehow it kept me watching until the end. Directed/Co-Written by Bob Pipe. On Netflix. 3/10.