Hunting Souls

The evil entity was slimy enough and looked rather similar to many other actually scary monsters. The young child was the best actor of the bunch. (Great under water scene, which is why I gave it a two. Not a spoiler.) Child also showed superior intelligence at 1 hour 23 minutes. I don't know who she inherited her brain from, certainly not the parents. Maybe she was adopted. This could be a sort of spoiler: A ROPE, what? I have seen a few thousand horror movies in my almost 77 years, fan since I was allowed to see my first one when I was 10 and that was a first, you will know what I mean, if you make it that far. As expected in a horror movie, plenty of dead people, mostly due to stupidity. I watched the whole thing so I could review it fairly.

Terrible acting by all. The monster did the best acting ffs. Anyone who gave this a good review must have been paid, family member, was their first movie or they have an IQ of 54 or less. Daddy's boss did the acting.

Okay story but the acting and the dialogue was cringe and weird multiple times. There's some weird interactions happening, like when they enter the hospital the dad is yelling for a doctor (which makes sense seeing as his child is unresponsive) and the nurse is offended by that; "you don't need to yell... we always take care of her." Then later the doctor and nurse are discussing a previous similar case to that of the child, and the nurse says "well they were best friends." How does she know?? They're 7 year olds, how would she know who their best friends are? Also, of course the first and only person to die in this movie was the one POC in it...

Lastly, the true horror in this movie is corporate America: Mike's boss not caring that he is taking many days off because his daughter is sick and making him choose between his job and his family.

The 2022 horror movie "Hunting Souls" from writer and director Diego Silva Acevedo was a movie that I hadn't heard about prior to getting to sit down and watch it. I must admit that I was drawn in by the movie's cover/poster art, and the fact that it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen.

While "Hunting Souls" was watchable, it was also a movie that was lingering on the threshold of being an ultimately bad low budget horror movie. I mean, the concept idea here was adequate, although very, very generic. And Diego Silva Acevedo was essentially playing on every stereotypical trope that these demonic stalking movies tend to share. But hey, at least you know what you are getting here.

The acting performances in "Hunting Souls" were for the most parts of the movie fair enough. However, here and there throughout the course of the movie there acting performances and dialogue so cringeworthy that you just stop dead in your track and shake your head in disbelief. These moments were horrible and sort of made the movie feel somewhat of a rollercoaster ride.

Now, I wasn't familiar with the cast in the movie, and that is something I tend to enjoy when I sit down to watch movies. And it was adequate enough in "Hunting Souls", despite the fact that some of the dialogue and performances were perplexingly horrible to bear witness to.

Visually then "Hunting Souls" was adequate. I mean, the demonic entity was low budget for sure. I mean, you have a guy dressed up in a latex body suit that is made slick with some kind of lubricant. Yeah, that just doesn't scream creature from the depths of Hell.

For a horror movie then "Hunting Souls" was pretty straight forward. It was generic and pretty much followed the how-to-make-a-demonic-stalking-movie blueprint to the letter. It wasn't a scary movie, not even in the least bit. Then there was the ending of the movie. While I will not spoil anything here, I just have to say that the ending was pretty bad.

My rating of "Hunting Souls" lands on a four out of ten stars. There are far better movies of a similar type out there, so this movie is not something I would recommend you rush out to get your hands on.

This movie started perfect. But then the writers got stupid and forgot it's a fictional movie not reality. Started perfect until the point where the demon arrives. Upon the wife seeing the demon and running to get a knife, hearing his wife shriek the husband rushes towards her calling out in the house for his wife but unbelievably she doesn't hear or answer back to his calls even though she sees a demon sitting at the table. Then shortly after their daughter shrieks in terror but the parents only walk towards the bedroom where there young daughter is about to fall out a window. The horror movie cliche of a door slamming shut when they arrive frustrates the viewer even more. The ghost buster or demon buster later in the show is called in but at one point stands in a circle ⭕ in the homeowners kitchen while bedlam is going on all over the house. The movie writers forgot all about her being in the script. They aso completely forget that the movie character reveals that a similar horror case took place in the town. A priest was called in to save the victim. So in the end why wasn't a priest or exorcist called to help. Instead the Father is taken to a looney bin. Ruining the movie ending completely also. That said (and it was more clownery in this movie to add) this movie could have been very good if the storyline remembered it's a fiction horror movie so make it believable in the world of fictional horror. Finally, I will finish with the demon guy. It's never impressive to have a guy in a rubber suit playing a supposedly scary demon villain in a horror movie.