Soul Reaper

Wait... horror? Not to close!

Close to ridiculous I say! Not even a sense of British humor (someone wrote it). Amateur, low budget, horrible effects, plot and cast.

One star cause there isn't 0 on IMDb!

Don't bother!!!

This has an absolutely atrocious start, the music sounded like someone farting loudly in a tunnel and combining that with obnoxious characters it's pretty much unwatchable right from the start. What's with the red filter over some of the stock footage of trees? From the dreadful music to the unlikeable characters and horrible cinematography this is clearly not worth watching right from the start. I did watch it all, admittedly at 1.5x and I can confirm it's terrible throughout. The hammer is the best weapon in any movie, one hit is instant death. Anyway, it's like a 15 minute movie dragged over 90 minutes. This avoided the dreaded 1/10 because some of the creative decisions they made were laughable and that entertained me.

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.

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.

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.