Mary Loss of Soul

I thought the directing and writing was horrible. The actors did their best. The actress playing the Mother Catherine Black was really good and the only redeeming quality of the movie. She had all the lines and did an amazing job delivering all that corny dialogue and making it sound natural, which must have been very challenging. Overall just a B rated TV drama movie, not horror. I think all these negative reviews are disgruntled horror buffs who hate woman.

This movie fails to know what it is. The story idea is interesting, but the execution is poor. It's easy to blame the acting because there is no clear point of view, so we can't relate to anyone. The actors all do a great job despite these odds against them. The actress playing the mother, Catherine Black, is given the challenge of carrying the bulk of the dialogue and delivering all the information, yet the movie isn't about her, so it's confusing why she does all the talking. Her dialogue is over explanatory and corny, yet she does an incredible job delivering it and making it feel natural. Despite having all the dialogue, the movie isn't told through the mothers point of view, so it falls short. Everything is explained and not shown, which makes the actors look bad, and the story unbelievable. The movie should have been about a mother fearing the loss of her child's soul, but it's not. Mary Loss of Soul doesn't know what it wants to be, a horror movie for kids, a supernatural thriller, or a drama...it's never clear. A lot is missing from the story, and the POV jumps around, so it's impossible to relate to any character or to the circumstances. Everyone does a good job, the cinematography is good, the actors all good, but unfortunately the script and direction have many holes. It feels like something is missing. However, children might really enjoy this movie.

Mary Kaylee Bryant goes missing at her family's lake house. When she returns, the 15 year old has been relieved of much of her soul. To mark the difference between the depressed Mary and the earlier, perkier model, we are treated, in flashback, to moments of family life that are so coated in sugar, things threaten to become hyperglycaemic.

Mum has the lion's share of exposition and turns into a wise-crackin' ass kicker at the end, dad keeps telling the police they either 'need to send some people round', and when they arrive, that they 'need to leave.'

My favourite character is May's younger sister Sophia, largely because of Anne Bex's unaffected performance.

A horror for youngsters or possibly teenage girls is no bad thing. I certainly wouldn't be arrogant enough to decry this film for not catering for a beleaguered old horror git like myself. Roles are played broadly, which was probably deemed necessary to convey large amounts of often heavy-handed dialogue. If this was intended for youngsters, then I honestly think they would find the vast amount of the running time rather dull. My score is 5 out of 10.

It's pretty funny actually how people are trying to call this a horror movie. It's not scary. Not only that but the animations were so bad I laughed out loud; Sci-Fy channel movies are better. The whole movie is slow and boring. It's old and tiring. The acting was annoying. The story wasn't good. Also the writer/ director said she wrote this movie in like 2 weeks, and well, we could tell. Hahaha. It was obviously written in such short time. Anybody could realize that. Not to mention that the choice of cast was wrong. I could not connect to any character. The only good actor in the whole entire movie was the Irish psychic. Everyone else was bad. The movie was just plain awful. Walking out of the screening people were laughing at the movie and calling it a joke (cause that's what it is, a big joke). It's not a movie to be proud of and it's not a movie I would be proud of to tell my friends or a stranger on the street that I saw. If you want to see a cheesy, boring, movie filled with bad acting, go ahead. At least you'll laugh at the end at how terrible this movie is.

I really liked this movie. I watched it with my wife and our 13 yo daughter and 12 yo son. Its creepy but not in the way a gory horror movie is that I don't let my kids watch. Its more of a 'who done it' with some twist that r cool so I like that plus my kids were interested but not scared out of their wits which was good. I liked the characters plus the fact the father is good and I don't see movies like that a lot. Overall its well done & was a really good movie & better than most of the stuff we watch on Netflix. I read another persons review and I don't get all the criticism at all. also the movie just came out a few weeks ago so how could the person review it in January that is over 10 months ago? Overall its a very good movie with lots of twist so I'd recommend it to anyone that likes some scary but not gory with an interesting topic.