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Lost Souls
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Pierce Gardner (also story)
Betsy Stahl (story)
Directed by: Janusz Kaminski
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 13, 2000
DVD: February 27, 2001
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for violence/terror and some language
Starring Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, and John Hurt
Maya (Ryder) is a young girl who belongs to a group of exorcists and discovers a conspiracy that would lead to the unleashing of Satan on Earth. At the center of the problem is best-selling true-crime writer Kelson (Chaplin).
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What The Critics Said
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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
A grade-B rumination on what a nasty guy the devil can be.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Possesses the art and craft of a good movie, but not the story.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Full of atmosphere and visuals, it's empty of anything that really matters.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
So filled with illogical twists and ridiculous turns, that eventually it evokes unintentional laughs.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
A screaming, silly cliche -- and somehow not a bit scary.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Silly, undone by lack of faith in its own subject.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
While Kaminski understands that movie terror comes in at the eyes, he has little skill for connecting sensation to hearts and minds.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Preposterous plot, bad acting, and dialogue that provokes more laughs than shivers.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
While it's beautifully shot, it's way too slow.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
His (Kaminski) first feature is so thoroughly awful, it isn't even interesting to look at.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
The most intriguing thing about Lost Souls is how it managed to attract so much talent.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It's a loose reassembly of plot points from "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist" that never achieves the emotional intensity of either.
Read Full Review >Variety Lael Loewenstein
The hallucination sequences are among the pic's creepiest.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Muddled tale of demonic hijinks and devil worship. It's terrible.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A lugubrious sub-"Exorcist" demonic possession film that's absolutely no fun at all.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
A pretty dreary affair to sit through. It's not even scary.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
Can be blamed foremost on its fire-and-brimstone screenwriter, Pierce Gardner.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
What emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
The only thing about this movie that will haunt you is its boggling ineptitude.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
If the devil made them all do it, he's one dull bastard.
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Another "Exorcist" bastard -- one with a chick-flick pedigree.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mark J. gave it a0:
The script is awful and full of cliches. Just a boring movie with zero suspense and a plot seen 1000000 times... Avoid!
Luis B. gave it a7:
I enjoyed this movie. It might be because I like supernatural thrillers, but I thought this was pretty well done.
Rob gave it a 1:
I don't know what was worse, the fact that I paid money to see this, or Winona Ryder's charcoal bricket eye-shadow job.
Kapil R. gave it a 1:
No words to tell you about the movie.
Nick D. gave it a 9:
Great story, very suspenseful.
Maria C. gave it an 8:
Saw it twice: didn't think much of it the first time, but really appreciate and understand it the second time. My advice to viewers: You must know something about narcissistic personality disorder to appreciate this movie. How discouraging it must be for the screenwriters Pierce Gardner and Betsy Stahl to have so many reviewers dismissing the story and just not getting it.
