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Keeper of Souls (2001) is just another lame "straight-to-video" d.v.d rental floating around at your local major video chain. It's lying in wait for another poor sap to rent this waste of a perfectly good D.V.D. ROM disc. This "movie" itself is not worth anyone's time. Even bad movie lovers will skip this one. This is another case of film makers being banned for life for making another "movie".

Currentally, this feature length video is under the name of Keeper of Souls. You might even find it sitting in the new release section for some reason. If you're foolish enough to plunk down $3.99 for this movie, then they should take away your rental card and cut it in half. A "movie" filled with phony plot twists and a bucket full of red herrings all wasted for naught. Don't be fooled by the cool cover. This is one sign of a lame D.T.V. movie. If the cover is cool looking, stay away. A good movie doesn't need a cool d.v.d. cover. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Keep away, stay away, just run away!!!

I am capable of enjoying most movies; especially when it comes to horror movies. Most movies have either a cute cheesiness, some hot chick, or they might have good (or decent!) and gory make-up. (Come on! That's why you watch these movies!) This movie has nothing. OK, a half-naked girl in the opening sequence, but that's about it. The music is awful, to call the acting crappy is to be kind, and the plot is not even interesting. The special effects are almost absent. There is one action sequence, but we don't get to see much. Even the sound and picture quality reminds one of home-made movies with a handy-cam... made when you were 15! The main characters (played by a pretty chick and the director, a ... er ... not-so-good looking fat bastard) are supposed to be a couple, although it looked rather incestuous: The guy might have been the girl's father, with his big belly, mustache and age. I was cringing in my sofa when I saw them kiss.

I am not going to spend more time dissing this movie. Bad movies can be interesting, but this one isn't at all.

Just forget it.

This movie is so bad; it's so unbelievable horrid that one can not concept its quality without actually viewing it. Actually, that one reason is the only reason anyone should ever watch it, so they can understand how bad it is, and also as proof never to hire Tim Card as a director. I really never hate movies; however, this is beyond bad there is no word to describe how terrible this film is. It's not even a film of standard, I was upset to give it a one star because there are a few Sean Penn films that are not shy away from 3 stars and guess what they are WAYYY better than this foolish production. OK, let's just put it this way... My friend got a free copy of the "The Keeper of the Souls" because the director/producer/everyone left free copies at Foxwoods casino for employees to screen. My friend and I watched it together... Now, to this day, he uses the DVD to kill moths when they get in his bedroom. Yea it's that horrid.

P.S. by the way, when he can't find the DVD he uses a deltron 3030 CD.

This piece of junk may have floated into the new release section of your local rental shop. BEWARE !!!! It is neither silly nor scary nor even cheseey. The movie is very much like the film "Coven" that the guys in American Movie were trying to get finished. Lots of smoke and many local actors featured in black capes and bad walmart halloween masks. Not bad if handled with a wink and a smile by the film maker. Problem here is that this piece of drek was done with a very heavy hand. Way too solem for it's own good. Do yourself a favor and avoid this movie at all cost. Do anything...read if you have too............ but stay away from this !!!

This is, by far, one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life. It wasn't even worth the cost of DVD rental. There was absolutely NO plot as far as I could see and the entire thing looked like it was filmed by some kid with a camcorder. The inconsistencies in the film were so obvious, that it ceased being fun to look for them about 20 minutes into the film. The acting was terrible (and that's putting it kindly.) The special effects were obvious and very poorly done. The scare factor? The only scary thing about this film is that it was NOT actually something a kid with a camcorder did with a group of friends in his or her city as a means of passing the time on a boring day.

Don't waste time on this.. there are so many other films out there to see..

Other than R.G Armstrong(who played "Franks" one of the Druids in Warlock: Armageddon - a cult fantasy movie from 93) you won't recognise a single person in this movie. Don't get me wrong i'm all for new talent but there's just no original appeal to this at all and it had the unfortunate added touch of reminding me of a Jim Wynorski flick, without the "is it or isn't it a porno" confusion of a first time rental victim.

This isn't even a B-Movie its just a collection of Bad actors talking to each other in that annoying "i know there's a camera in the room" way and running around in the woods for no apparent reason. I don't believe i'm going to actually say this but the Director Tim Card could have actually made this movie better if he'd have shaken the camera a few times and done a close up of some girls nose in a tent...Blair witch was better than this and it was crap...Don't rent it, don't even look at it and yes....i'm a harsh critic, but only because so much crap gets released onto DVD/video these days.

This movie is absolutely horrible. It was full of things that I thought made scooby doo look like Amityville. The cover is cool looking, and it did APPEAR to have a pretty good plot, so why not? I was so wrong. It was low budget CRAP!!!! I wasted my three dollars and my 2 hours, and I want them both back!!!!!! So a word of advice is to never rent this, buy this, nothing. I can't believe this film got a 2.5! That is amazing! I usually like horror movies, I've never really been too picky over them, but this one just really stunk, I'm not sure if my DVD player will ever be the same again, its scarred for life! If you're strolling through the movie store and see keeper of souls, run for the hills and don't look back!

Seriously, I tend to enjoy terrible movies, just to get a laugh at plot-holes, miserable acting and crappy effects. The problem with this movie is that there can't be a plot-hole simply because there's no plot. It doesn't even seem to be a story! The ending is just weird, without any relevance to the movie elsewhere whatsoever. Also, earlier in the movie, you see a scene of the main character sitting in a bar, then all of a sudden he is being beat up in the forest! I might be wrong about the bar-part, it might have been some other place, it's some time since I've seen it...the movie just is annoying. Miserable acting? I've never ever heard such terrible acting in my life! Actually, that part could be interesting for you to check out. This has to be the worlds worst actors. Effects? Slim to none. Fake blood is the best effect they've got ;)

Aka "Keeper of souls"

Wish I could give half a star - this must be one of the worst movies, I've ever seen. The actors are awful, the filming is awful, the lighting is awful. Good story though, just a shame, that everything else is Terrible.

Within the first 5 min I was thinking, that this didn't seem like a good movie. I gave it a shot, but after 1 hour I simply gave up, my life is too short to watch the ending - maybe the ending is amazing - i don't know, i don't care. I rarely make reviews but this movie was so bad, that i had to spend some time on warning other people to not watch this movie. Go watch some paint dry instead, I promise you, you will feel your time was much better spent on that :D

Watched this twice, to make sure it was as bad as I thought. It was. I believe I could do as well with about 5 fog machines, a working vehicle, a 400 dollar camera, and about 8 neighbors. (drunk or sober) It is just to bad to even leave a review on how horrible it was. They couldn't even kill noise that the fog machines made, to make the house look creepy. CHEEEEZE CAPITOL!

For a low budget film, we thought it did extremely well. In fact, it comes off like a medium high budget movie. The various stunts (like the snake handling) has you on the edge of your seat! Of course the acting from R.G. Armstrong is always terrific. He was in so many JOhn Wayne films (to numerous to count)you usually spot him right away. In "The Wakeing", his character kind of sneaks up on you. "Wow! That's ole R.G."!(usually plays a kind old gent) that all of a sudden turns out to be a despicable monster that makes your flesh crawl.

Reminds you of Fred McMurry in "Double Indemnity". A real nice guy, above suspicion, that turns out to be just as bad as anyone else.

Shades of Hitchcock... SURPRISE!

I was duped I tell thee!! It wasn't too bad I suppose. There were some bits that were ridiculous in it, but there were also some unexpected turns in the story that I didn't expect, which helped keeping me watching it. Luckily I did only rent it, as the summary on the DVD case promised so much. It was a good idea for a movie, it was just let down by bad everything else (script, actors, directing, etc.), there could have been a greater emphasis on the Keeper of Souls himself or his cult, rather than some woman's dreams.

Didn't expect her to kill her husband at the end though....that was nice, and it helped to put a bit of variation on the film. I thought it had been made much earlier than 2001 however, as the production values are similar to that of "Mutant" (aka Night Shadows) from 1984, as they have similarly bad trailer trash hair in this movie. The skinny bloke in this film really was quite a stereotypical inbred deep south, and that let the film down, with a lot of other things as well.

But like I say, the film was tolerable.

I was able to see the movie "The Waking" at a cinema draft house in West Melbourne Florida about 8 months ago and I must say that it was very well done and I think that this film has the potential to become a cult classic. I cant wait to see it out in the box office.

This movie is probably the worst film I'v ever seen... There are no special effects (the few that are, seem like they could have been done a whole lot better by a child with a ketchup bottle!), there are no naked girls (which normally is a good reason for watching low budget horror films), no psychos - no nothing! Only a couple of bad actors - one of them also being the director, and sometimes a light-tech-guy with his lamp, or the microphone or whatever...

I spent almost the entire movie speculating if this was some sort of joke, or if there was some sort of twist waiting. It is not, and there are not! It is just a really lousy movie - no, not even funny.

But most important: this movie is not the slightest bit scary! And it's supposed to be a horror movie. In conclusion: you should only watch this if you wanna see the worst film in history (and not be entertained).