As the second last film in one of the great contemporary horror filmmaker’s careers, it’s an extraordinary example of artistic self-reflection and development.

| Dec 12, 2023

My Soul to Take feels like a grave step backward for the director

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 3, 2023

Virtually every aspect of production disappoints.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

There are a few interesting murders, and a few not so interesting-and there's more than enough splatter, but not so much that it can cover-up the terrible acting and script.

| Mar 12, 2019

My Soul to Take is a little uneven, but at its best, it's remarkably good.

| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 2019

What [Wes Craven] wound up with was a witless stab-the-teen time-waster that could be his worst film ever. And considering 2005's wretched Cursed, that's pretty bad.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 15, 2013

Places too much time in the hands of disposable characters - so that it is neither a brainless slasher flick nor an immersive character piece based in a serial massacre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2012

"My Soul to Take" is one of the most banal horror films I've seen in the past few years, which makes it surprising that it comes from the mind of horror master Wes Craven, who gave birth to the legendary horror icon Freddy Krueger.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2012

A single-serving package of adrenaline that wears off quickly.

| Aug 15, 2011

The filmmaker's red herrings prove depressingly incapable of hiding the real fiend's identity.

| Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2011

Everyone in front of and behind the camera look and feel like they're lifting the heaviest, least horrifying ton of bricks invented.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Is it just possible that Craven fumbled the ball this time and gave us the equivalent of a fairly amateur teen horror flick?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 21, 2011

full review at Movies for the Masses

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 1, 2011

Clunky bird metaphors, blind kids grabbing for dangling ropes, a Horshack-ian best friend with an abusive stepfather, and a story that would be impossible if any of these kids drove a car, sum up most of the more obvious problems with the film.

| Feb 25, 2011

Confused, poorly executed, sporadic and incredibly messy, but despite its pitfalls, My Soul to Take is an enormously entertaining bad movie.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 10, 2011

There's some malarkey about each kid having inherited one of the maniac's personalities, though Craven never does much with that except to point the finger of suspicion at junior.

| Jan 5, 2011

...the film not only marks a low point within Craven's career but also within the horror genre itself.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 10, 2010

It's talky, schlocky and stalk-y.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 30, 2010

With either too much or too little happening on screen and a script juggling too many red herrings at once, My Soul to Take feels like Purgatory... in 3D.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Oct 27, 2010

The best thing about My Soul to Take is that it may force folks to revisit Wes Craven's past works and finally realize that he's always been nothing more than a hack in the horror field, a Uwe Boll with a better sense of where to place the camera.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2010