6 Souls (2010)
7/10
Thrilling psychological-themed slasher with some flaws
5 October 2015
Agreeing to take on a strange case for her father, a psychologist finds that her charge is harboring the souls of murdered victims together under the guise of a personality disorder and must race to stop him when his true plans are revealed.

Overall this one was quite a decent if altogether flawed effort. What really works here is the fact that it manages to maintain a rather impressive air about it that allows for this one to really get some effectively creepy scenes throughout, which is mostly due to the practice of this one attempting to come off as a character study and researching the different personalities associated here. While the different investigation techniques aren't all that impressive or enjoyable, there's the manner in which these bring about the different shocks here with the different personalities appearing at unwarranted times in order to keep things guessing as it goes along in trying to detail how he managed to accomplish this feat and slowly unravel the truth about his identity as he continues to play a great cat-and-mouse game to torment her in this half of the film. That leads into the second half here which is almost better with the film really going all-out to make the suspense work in unraveling the truth about his identity which is quite chilling and helps with the discovery of the different bodies throughout here that are found which enable this one to turn into quite a fun time here with the attacks on her friends finally bringing about the big chase into the finale where the action manages to make for quite a rousing time in the end. These here are enough to make this hold out enough to compensate nicely for the few flaws here, as this one does manage to make a few small blunders. The biggest here is in how this one goes about wasting so much time here on the different personalities that are clearly not that interesting, as once it's learned who they are it drastically reveals quite a lame and rather unappealing style of events that really bring this one to a halt here as she travels the countryside digging up the different people that are never once brought back to light as proof of his misleading them as the first one who died years before he was actually alive should've been enough to lock him up on the spot and then rendered the stalking as irrelevant based on that alone, which is where this one does tend to fall somewhat by not being all that truthful about the source of his secret. The other part that lowers this one is the fact that there's a rather lame reveal here for each of the identities, merely causing him to tilt his head back and snap into a new persona in a series of rather lame scenes that are supposedly terrifying but instead come off as laughable, especially when it happens in the final half during some of the more intense sequences where he's trying to get at them and renders this a little more comical than expected. These here are what keep this one from what it could've been.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and children-in-jeopardy.
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