The Soul Eater

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The Soul Eater

2024

1h 48m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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When violent and gruesome deaths starts plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

A chilling mystery about an isolated community who capitalism left behind, The Soul Eater is a thrilling, thoughtful addition to the serial killer film tradition.

Aug 5, 2024

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

While the procedural elements may feel more rote, at least in an era inundated by crime thrillers, Maury and Bustillo pull from their horror toolkit and plunge into dark subject matter with aplomb.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 31, 2024

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Casey Chong

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Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's latest movie combines a decent police procedural and folklore horror.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 26, 2024

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

What a Scream Podcast

...with images within the last sequence that will burn itself into audiences’ brains, Bustillo and Maury have once again retained the power to ruin people’s days.

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 3, 2024

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Matt Donato

Collider

The Soul Eater doesn’t push the limits of the horror procedural subgenre, but still succeeds as a folkloric whodunit with a dash of hellacious imagery.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 20, 2024

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C.H. Newell

Father Son Holy Gore

The Soul Eater is really about the stories we tell and for what purposes we tell them.

Rated: 5/5

Aug 4, 2024

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Wolfgang G

Als es in einem kleinen Bergdorf zu gewaltsamen und grausamen Todesfällen kommt, taucht eine alte Legende über eine bösartige Kreatur wieder auf. Der Film ist zweifellos einer der eindringlichsten, verblüffendsten und albtraumhaften Folklore/Mystery-Filme, der jemals auf Art eines Psycho-Thrillers gedreht wurden.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/24

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Gerald H

Clearly inspired by the wonderful Austrian series PAGAN PEAK, this movie manages to get you hooked for almost the whole running time because of its staggering reality … and then - as we’re used to just so often - goes off the rails, overdoing it completely, suddenly reality gives in to spectacle and fantasy. Please directors: do one thing or the other! Do „Silence of the Lambs“ or do „Pan‘s Labyrinth“. Bit do not mix it incoherently.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/10/24

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B P

Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo’s Investigative Thriller is Suitably Dark

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/31/24

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Julien Maury

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Alexandre Bustillo

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Paul Hamy

Franck De Rolan

Virginie Ledoyen

Élisabeth Guardiano

Sandrine Bonnaire

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Francis Renaud

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Synopsis

When violent and gruesome deaths starts plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.

Director: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Screenwriter: Annelyse Batrel, Ludovic Lefebvre
Production Co: Phase 4 Productions, Place du Marché
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 1h 48m