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SOUL SURVIVORS

Cassie (Melissa Sagemiller), her beau, Sean (Casey Affleck), her ex, Matt (Wes Bentley), and saucy minx Annabel (Eliza Dushku) all pile into an SUV and head off to college in a quaint New England town. They party a little, check out the frat scene, then head off to a goth rave in a fire-bombed church. On the dance floor, a masked freak accosts Cassie; later, Matt steals a kiss from her, an action Sean witnesses. Confrontations and emotions run wild, and the evening takes a real turn for the worse when the SUV slams into a carload of ghoulishly dressed ravers. Sean dies and Cassie is left a head case. She sees Sean around campus and thinks the masked raver is stalking her; blood gurgles from every drain and shower head she uses. Is director Stephen Carpenter's little chiller a slasher flick (it's more than a little haunted by I Know What You Did Last Summer), a modern-day retelling of the Orpheus myth, or just a demented woman's nightmare? That question is the one guilty treat in this inept ripoff that loiters somewhere between the living and the dead.

By Tom Meek

Issue Date: October 5 - 11, 2001