a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The first half of the movie is an in-depth psychological thriller, where a psychologist, played by none other than Juliane Moore, is investigating an interesting patient, who seems to be suffering from split personality disorder It gets really interesting as we get taken deeper and deeper into the lives of his split personalities, everything seems to add up and form a strong plot, up until they decide to ruin this movie in a sense by introducing a new reality - turns out these are not split personalities, but souls. This turns everything upside down and now this is a religious voodo shaman type of movie with witchraft and exorcisms. In my opinion, you can only go one way or the other, the premise was really great, up until the half way point i was really intruiged purely by the psychological investigation and delving deeper into the minds of Adam/David. The movie is not horrible nor is it great, they should have gone with the premise without introducing all the voodoo witchcraft. Nonetheless there is great acting, beautiful scenery at times and by no means it is a boring watch! Watch and decide for yourself, not the worst flick you will ever see.

Shelter (6 Souls): Forensic Psychiatrist Cara Harding (Julianne Moore) doesn't believe in Multiple Personality Disorder but her father (Jeffrey Munn), also a psychiatrist, tries to shake up her thinking by introducing her to Adam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who is also David and Wesley. Apparently some of his physical abilities and characteristics change with his personalities.Not just a tale of a disturbed patient, this film also brings in serial killing, Appalachian Folk Magic and a curse. Good Folk Horror but with perhaps a few too many forced shocks. At 112 minutes it would have benefited from a 15 minutes cut in it's running time. Convincing acting by Moore and Meyers. 6.5/10.

From the beginning, this movie can't decide what it is. A psychological thriller? A supernatural horror movie? Something else? I have no problem with a film that spans genres, or ever creates a new genre, but this film seems to fall into a narrow crack between genres.The story seems to be a hodgepodge of elements of other movies, including Soultaker (1990), The Green Mile (1999), and Fallen (1998). At just about every critical point in the film, my wife and/or I could predict the next event, or at least narrow it down to two possibilities. Very few surprises or original ideas.Julianne Moore's acting is palatable if not inspiring. Jonathan Rhys Meyers' acting is forced and cliché' and he comes across as a budget Jim Caviezel or an improved Eric Roberts.Also, so the movie makes a few references to "Night of the Living Dead," thus violating MST3K's Tom Servo's precept "Man, never show a good movie in the middle of your crappy movie." If it weren't so well filmed, with some great shots and scenery, I would have given this movie one star.

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.