GL84 After a car accident involving her and her friends, a young woman becomes increasingly unhinged with the belief that someone is stalking her as everyone else around her fails to understand her situation.An absolute piece of junk, which has so many flaws it's hard to know where to start. First off, the twist ending at the end is so blatantly obvious that there's no surprise at all when it's revealed, the tame rating never allows it to do anything and the fact that there's no deaths, no kills or anything at all beyond her acting scared of her shadow makes this one just so boring and dull that it's hard to get excited about anything. Even the fact that the lifestyle that they live out isn't exactly all that interesting is another factor to overcome. Even more depressing, it doesn't have a positive aspect beyond a professional sheen, so overall, this one isn't worth it at all.Rated PG-13: Violence

Scarecrow-88 Cassie(Melissa Sagemiller, whose face is forced into the background of the movie poster behind the recognizable faces of Eliza Dushku, Casey Affleck and Wes Bentley, despite being the main star)shares a forbidden kiss with an ex-boyfriend, Matt(Bentley)who still carries a torch for her as current beau Sean(Affleck)watches. Annabel(..the absolutely sexy Dushku)was dancing in the goth club playing loud industrial rock music as Sean went after her as Matt pursued that "innocent" kiss with Cassie, whose head-over-heels for Sean. With Sean mum due to being appropriately angry with that kiss he witnessed, Cassie's eyes are on him when a car in front of her Bronco(..carrying "thrashers" who were inside the club) skids leading to a head-on collision. Awakening to find Sean supposedly dead while the remaining party survived, Cassie attempts unsuccessfully to move on with school, but her whole world spirals out of control as people appear and disappear, those thrashers(..one with long hair and a facial scar, another wearing a mask)often either follow her, chase her, even threatening her life, and visits from Sean begging her to return with him. Matt returns from Harvard to help guide her through the pain and misery of Sean's death, while attempting to win her adoration, meanwhile Annabel begins to carry on relations with the third thrasher in that car the night they wrecked, Raven(Angela Featherstone). For about 70 minutes, we watch as Cassie attempts to convince Matt and Annabel that people are after her and that Sean is with her. But, we see that perhaps everything that happens to her may be fiction created by some sort of head trauma as a result of her crash, or maybe even some sort of near-death journey with a "priest", Jude(Luke Wilson, never more angelic)trying to help her.About 70 minutes of this film is rather disorienting with constant nightmare scenarios, characters who behave normal one minute and oddly the next, blood making appearances often in bizarre ways(..from Cassie's nose, mainly), constant dangerous figures who appear and vanish, with Cassie constantly wondering what the hell is going on. I must admit that I found this rather frustrating, but I guess that's part of what director Stephen Carpenter is aiming for, creating a difficult experience where nothing is what it seems and questioning Cassie's mental state. I do feel Carpenter is certainly ambitious, trying to challenge the viewer, but I personally found this rather tedious. I think those who buy into the "love conquers all" concept at the heart of the film(Cassie and Sean's love can go up against any odds, including death), will like this best. But, the film's freakish nature, constantly hurling one bizarre sequence involving Cassie and her remaining pals(..and those creepy folks after her)after another, might turn many off. After a while, I gave up on it, but the ending does bring everything full circle, and Carpenter does shed light on various characters and things Cassie sees which don't make sense at first, so maybe it's a sleeper for horror fans looking for this sort of thing. Not really as violent or lurid as it could've been thanks to the teen-friendly PG-13 rating. Fans of Dushku might wish to check it out just to see her in tight little outfits and during certain scenes with the goth look. She's a babe, no doubt. Pretty blond Sagemiller spends most of the film conflicted, frightened, and miserable. Bentley is wooden and Affleck plays up the perfect, sensitive, gentlemanly dreamboat boyfriend every 18-25 year old girly could possibly hope for. I think the film echoes "Carnival of Souls" in some ways, with Cassie(..like the character is CoS) actually trying to escape fate.

bxnikki420 This movie has a good idea that, minus a couple of scenes, would of made it a lot less complicated for some. My interpretation is a little different from the last one I read. Instead of the state that she was in being 2 different ones, I see it as she is in a state of death, where everyone is jealous that she is not yet completely dead(in a coma in real life). Luke Wilson, since he is a priest who has died, is the only sense of reason, and the only one not trying to keep her there, letting her make her own decision. Her boyfriend is alive, sitting next to her comatose body, talking to her, and she is imagining his actual body in her world, which is only his voice. I think what is confusing is that they showed her boyfriends funeral, which I think was shown by the writer, just to confuse, and make you think that she is still alive, trying to give you a sixth sense sort of plot twist.

marcus_stokes2000 *Soul SPOILERS* On their way home from a rave, friends Cassie (Melissa Sagebrecht), Matt (Wes Bentley), Annabel (Eliza Dushku) and Sean (Casey Affleck) get in a terrible accident.Sean dies, and the other three try to get on with their life. Cassie, though, begins to experience mysterious phenomenons, like seeing and hearing Sean, mysterious dreams, and a lot of confusion...This movie stood on Artisan's shelf for more than a year, and after having watched it, I can understand why; the actors do their best (which in case of newcomer Sagebrecht really isn't much), but the script, which tries for a 'Carnival Of Souls' - 'Jacob's Ladder' thriller, is way too muddled, having the ending being both obvious and confusing (quite a task!).Nothing to say about the directing if not that it's the most anonymous this side of Alan Smithee.End line - this movie is boring. Handle with care.Soul Survivors: 3/10.