6 Souls (MOVIE: 2013)

6 SOULS
Directed by Bjorn Stein and Mans Marlind
2013
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Suspense
Notable Actors: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy and Brooklynn Proulx

Rating: 3 out of 10.

SPOILERS.

I don't review horror....like ever. For a good reason, I have the reflex of a box full of cute puppies. Cuddly and not at all terrifying. The movie follows Dr. Cara Harding, who is a psychologist (she may be a psychiatrist, however I'm not sure what really is the difference...so please ignore my ignorance.) Her husband passed away and it is shaking her faith in Christianity, however, she still believes in scientific logic (which makes sense to me.) To make her become more accepting of psychiatric theories, her dad call her up and introduces her to Adam. He has multiple personalities in his body. Adam physically adapts his body for every soul that occupies it.  To even the playing field, Dr. Harding, brings in one of the personalities mother. She found him looking as a different individual in a yearbook and tracked down to his old house. His mother was able to even confirm that the soul was her son. Turns out, Adam's "personalities" are murder victims. This went from being a very interesting horror film about psychiatric illness and turned into murder spree and did a cheap ass throw away backwoods hoodoo and non-believing in God storyline. Adam goes on to murder and suck up the soul of her father, her husband and her daughter. All because there was once a priest in the 1800s who vaccinated his children and told the rest of the town to believe in God. So a witch woman of the hills cursed the priest for the rest of his life and to take those with him who also don't believe. Like...what.

Really, the real question is how did they get Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and even Frances Conroy to do this movie? Like all of them had careers with many roles. Feels like they all owed somebody and that somebody had something to do with this horrible movie. This was an interesting start, however as Nicolas Rapold of the New York Times said on Rotten Tomatoes, "...eventually trades serial-killer intimations for backwoods bad mojo before becoming just another dimly lighted pop-up-stalker flick." and that is probably the truest statement I've ever heard.