My Soul To Take (2010) 6/10

Starring : Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker, Zena Grey, Nick Lashaway, Paulina Olzsynski, Jeremy Chu, Emily Meade, Raul Esparza, Shareeka Epps
Director : Wes Craven
Running Time : 108 mins

The legend of a serial killer has lead to local kids celebrating the annual River Day and a legend that tells that the killer will return to kill the seven children born in the town of Riverton on the day he died. When people start disappearing sixteen years later, Adam ‘Bug’ Heller (Thieriot), one of the seven, starts having visions of their attacks.

Wes Craven treads over familiar ground with the Scream-like horror that does little to refresh the genre. The idea is a nice piece of folk lore – a killer that vows to kill those born on the day he dies unless certain rituals are followed – but the execution is a little shaky and I’d have expected better from the king of horror, especially with a closing twenty minutes that feels just like a supernatural version of Scream. A little more humour wouldn’t have hurt, either.

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