Product Details

• Actors: Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone
• Directors: Stephen Carpenter
• Writers: Stephen Carpenter
• Producers: Jonathan Shestack, Michele Weisler, Neal H. Moritz, Stokely Chaffin
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Dubbed: French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: February 26, 2002
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (121 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005UQ6G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,241 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Soul Survivors (The Killer Cut)" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Think of Soul Survivors as a more sincere version of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The night before Cassie (the Gwynethesque Melissa Sagemiller) starts college, she gets into a terrifying car accident with her boyfriend (Casey Affleck) and best friends (Wes Bentley from American Beauty and Eliza Dushku from Bring It On and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). But was it an accident? And who survived? Cassie starts college--but she also keeps hallucinating about frightening men she saw at a party prior to the accident, as well as about undergoing surgery after it. Is college itself the hallucination? These slips from one reality to the next build an increasing sense of discomfort and anxiety--though some viewers may be made more anxious by a scene in which Sagemiller and Dushku step into a shower together. Or do they... --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

College freshman Cassandra "Cassie" (Melissa Sagemiller) steps into a nightmare of otherworldly visitations after surviving a devastating car accident. Haunted by a grim reaper of a far different kind, her only hope is to cling to chance encounters with

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad at all. October 1, 2005

By Alexiel VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

This movie gets a bad rap for a couple of reasons. It's sort of a cheesy horror movie, and some people feel it's a cheat. But I don't grade movies like this against movies like "Schindler's List" or "Shawshank Redemption." I grade them on what they're trying to do and how successful there are. This movie doesn't have a lofty aim or a lot of ambition, so I'm not going to rip it apart for not being high art. It does what it wants to quite well.

Personally, I thought this was a better horror movie than any of the House of The Dead, Jeepers Creepers, Alone In The Dark, or House of 1000 Corpses bottom feeders. And to be totally honest, this movie has far fewer cheats in its explanations and mechanisms than say, "Momento" or "Mullholland Drive." So I don't see what people are complaining about. If this were a David Lynch movie, people wouldn't be crying that the movie makes no sense, they'd be lauding how subtle and brilliant it is for not "spoon-feeding you all the answers." But I digress.

Soul Survivors is about a college girl who loses her boyfriend in a car crash coming home from a rave with her friends. She's heartbroken. Then weird things start to happen. Crazy looking guys chase her around, then vanish. Her dead boyfriend begins to visit her with eerie messages. The plot thickens from there, and of course all is not what it seems.

Personally, I think this is a pretty entertaining and interesting movie. The casting is very good.... Melissa Sagemiller makes a good lead character, Luke Wilson is great as the sympathetic priest, Wes Bentley is good as the ostensibly nice but somewhat sinister friend, Eliza Dushku may never have been more gorgeous in her entire career as the wild child best friend who is of little help to her grieving friend and gets involved in some pretty strange situations. The setting for the rave that is revisited a few times is also gorgeous.

I could go on and on, but in short, I think this is a good movie that achieves what it sets out to. It doesn't have half as many cheats as more artistic and ambitious movies, the casting and setting are great, and you could do a lot worse in this genre. 4 stars. Read more ›

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as everyone is making it out to be... January 24, 2006

By SuperJenn

Format:DVD

I'd read so many bad reviews of Soul Survivors, but the plot sounded intriguing...like it was right up my alley. It's certainly not the best movie I've ever seen in any genre, but it was entertaining. It kind of reminded me of Vanilla Sky meets the Sixth Sense, if that helps. I found it for $5.50 at Wal-Mart so if you're into thriller/horror type movies, you can't miss for a price like that. It's something I'll definitely watch again and again. If you're still unsure, try renting it first. It was a pleasant surprise for me.

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I liked It! June 29, 2005

By J. Mahar

Format:DVD

At first I was almost afraid to watch it after reading all the bad reviews, but truth be told, I liked it. The true is that I have no clue who died and who lived, but I consider it a very enjoyable movie.

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good October 18, 2005

By SPIKE JAMES

Format:DVD

This movie has a good premise but is SOO confusing! I watched it like 3 times and still dont get it. I will admit that the only reason why I watched this movie in the first place is because of my beloved Eliza Dushku :) But its acutally not a bad movie. You really have to think and concentrate when you watch this.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars SOUL SURVIVORS December 18, 2001

By Jason Warner

Format:DVD

Four friends get in a horrible car accident and three of of them survive, and one doesn't. Then Cassie, the main character, begins seeing the dead friend, well her boyfriend, around campus and around town, and she begins having strange visions. But her dead boyfriend is the one who is drawing her closer to the light and closer to the truth, it is the two other friends that draw her further away and closer to the dark side.

This film is just incredible! It is scary, very suspenceful and the ending is just purely shocking! All the cast gives great performances, especially Melissa Sagemiller as Cassie and Eliza (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Bring It On) Dushku as best friend Annabel. Other cast members include Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Luke Wilson and Angela Featherstone. This is definitly a horror film you can watch over and over again and find something new, and it will always entertain you!

Overall: A great horror film with a purely shocking climax!

Grade: A+

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars POTENTIALLY SOMETHING REALLY COOL March 4, 2002

By Chris Kennison VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

This movie was confusing to say the least.

... and I'm not talking about the odd path of the dream-like, mysterious, what's going on storyline. I'm talking about the fact that it wasn't better than it was??

The movie had a lot of things going for it. It was very well shot. Cool images. A frightening opening scene that started to flesh out as the cast of characters attended a very dark and mysterious dance club. A club where, the audience knows they shouldn't be there, but the characters don't.

The cast was excellent. Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku and very creep Angela Featherstone, all performed well.

Yet, all of a sudden, the movie jumped into this dreamlike state, forgetting the story they had started, and took us in a direction that, well...

I'm confused. I don't know if it was supposed to be surprising? If it was supposed to leave me guessing? It didn't. I knew exactly what was going on. The first part of the movie was intriguing. But, quite frankly, The second part of the movie was an absolute yawner.

In baseball terms, SOUL SURVIVORS was a foul ball. A LONG foul ball, but a fall ball all in the same.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars title of review October 11, 2003

By pancake_repairman

Format:DVD

So up until I saw this movie I thought Valentine was the absolute lowest modern teen-horror movies could sink. Then I saw Soul Survivors. It isn't as hackneyed and generic as Valentine, but it is really, really boring. I had trouble telling the two male leads apart, they both had exactly the same haircut, and no distinguishing features. The plot just went nowhere. After the hints that something sinister is going on start presenting themselves, the plot goes nowhere. There is no progression towards figuring out what is going on and reaching a conclusion, the plot just stagnates, with numerous sinister occurances that are never explained. Even at the end of the film, we get no closure. The question of whether the people pursuing the girl were real flesh and blood people, paranormal manifestations, or merely her own personal delusions, is never answered. That just adds to the weakness of the film though. Even if there was a conclusion, it would still be unwatchably dull.