

We then cut to that infant now grown (Jesse James) and living with his aunt (Geraldine Hughes), who the re-named Johnny Petrie, believes is his mother. Torrance Downes) with only an hidden infant spared. Davis in a small but crucial role.ĭead Souls opens with a disturbing ritualistic murder/suicide of a family by it’s minister patriarch, Benjamin Conroy (J.H. Also stars X-Files‘ ‘The Smoking Man’ William B. Sad, because the basic story had potential. The film also takes far too long to really get going and once it does, it comes to a climax we saw coming for at least an hour before.

The cast go from bland to adequate with Bowden’s Christy being the liveliest of the characters, though, one of the least used. Not to mention, characters doing some really stupid things and making some really bad decisions to move the plot along and put themselves in needless danger.

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It’s TV movie style works against it, as does the neutered shocks to get it’s PG-13 rating. There is just too much predictability and far too little of the suspense and scares one watches this kind of flick for. This film is directed as by-the-numbers as you can get by Nicholas Goossen and from a script that is far too sloppy to work by Dan Hannon and Scott Sandler. Along with new friends Mark (Dave Franco), Lisa (Shannon Woodward), Taylor (Josh Emerson, who played basically the same character in Jennifer’s Body) and romantic interest Christy ( Katrina Bowden), they unravel a history of death and missing persons and decide to check out the man’s home for clues…bad idea. Barry) who lives on a secluded property that the shortcut leads through. His interest provoked after his little brother (Nicholas Elia) is frightened by the man and his apparent murder of a dog, when dared to take the shortcut by schoolmates. PG-13 horror focuses on new kid in town Derek (Andrew Seeley) investigating a shortcut through the woods, with a bad reputation, and a mysterious and strange old man (Raymond J. Sadly this moderately budgeted fright flick, produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions…re-dubbed Scary Madison…and released straight to DVD, is a very pedestrian and only minimally entertaining tale. After putting together my Halloween Hotties post about up and coming scream queen Katrina Bowden, I became intrigued by her first horror and thought I’d take a look.
