Lost Souls

2000

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22% · 92 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 11736 11.7K

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Plot summary

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.

Director

Janusz Kaminski Photo
Janusz Kaminski

Top cast

Winona Ryder Photo
Winona Ryder as Maya Larkin
Jamie Denbo Photo
Jamie Denbo as Sharon
John Hurt Photo
John Hurt as Father Lareaux
Tom McCleister Photo
Tom McCleister as Father Malcolm
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899.41 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
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862.36 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.8 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.73 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Spanner-2 6 / 10

I have mixed feelings about this one

In this horror effort, Winona Ryder (my has her career fallen) plays a young woman who once went through an exorcism (?) and now finds herself as the one person who can prevent Satan himself from occupying the body of a normally decent enough New Yorker (do decent New Yorkers exist??) Ryder does her best with the supernatural material and Ben Chaplin as the perplexed chosen one is decent. The story and direction (by first time director and award winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski) rachet up the thrills and suspense and arent afraid to offer a downbeat ending. Sometimes gets obsessed with style over substance however. GRADE: B-
Reviewed by djnoize 4 / 10

fairly run of the mill movie

Was this made for TV? Probably went striaght to rental. It's ok for a time filler, nothing much more. Couple of scenes may make you jump, or at least curl your lip. Not tooo slow going, just managed to keep my interest long enough until the anti-climatical ending. It's like reading a book only to find that the last page is missing, but then reaslise that it makes no difference...
Reviewed by jayraskin1 4 / 10

How Can You Go From "Little Women" and "Washington Square" to This?

Winona had just had a big hit with "Girl Interrupted," and Ben Chaplin was impressive doing Montgomery Cliff's "The Heiress" part in "Washington Square." So what possessed them to do a cheesy "Exorcist" meets "the Omen" and "Rosemary's Baby" formula movie? In any case, the movie has a good opening twenty minutes and promises real scary stuff to come. You don't know anything about the characters or what's going on and that makes it a little frustrating, but you can forgive the movie for that. Unfortunately, the movie becomes less scary the more the silly plot and characters gets revealed. Probably the silliest moment comes when Winona tells Ben that he fits the profile for the "antichrist" because he's never been baptized. It is hard to see how Winona Horowitz could say such a thing with a straight face.Apparently the first time director is a great cinematographer. That is usually not such a good thing. Yes, Stanley Kubrick did make the transition, but most cinematographers are too concerned with the lighting and have no idea how to direct actors. That turns out to be the case here, where everybody is just doing monotone line readings.I confess my love for Winona, but even her presence only makes the film barely watchable and not quite enjoyable or fun.
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