The Worst Film Ever

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Soultangler (1987) * (out of 4)Anton Lupesky is a scientist who of course turns out to be mad. He creates a drug that will allow the users spirit to leave their body and posses corpses but of course there's a major side effect.SOULTANGLER is a film that I had never heard of before it came out onto DVD. I must admit that I had never heard a thing about it and after watching it I'm even more confused because there's really not too much here. I mean, was the company releasing this trying to pass it off as a cult movie? Perhaps as a movie that's so bad it's good? I'm really not sure what they were trying to do but it seems the filmmakers were going for something like RE-ANIMATOR but they didn't have a budget.For me the worst thing about this picture is that it just couldn't keep me entertained or glued into what was going on. Every once in a while we'd get some bloody deaths but there's not nearly enough to keep you entertained. As you'd expect the performances are pretty bad but this here can be forgiven. The film also features some pretty weak special effects but I will say that I enjoyed them for what they were. At least they tried to give us some practical effects with gore.I guess there might be some people who get some laughs out of the picture but it just didn't work for me. SOULTANGLER just didn't grab me or hold my attention.

"The Soultangler" is a very low budget film with an intriguing premise that takes a while to get where it is going but pays off spectacularly in the end. Dr. Anton Lupesky invents Anphiorum, a drug that allows the user's soul to leave their body and inhabit any corpse that still has eyes (yes being the window to the soul after all). The side effect is horrible, maddening hallucinations that kill most of the drug's users. Though the beginning is slow going as to be expected from a lot of trash horror films of this era, the story builds nicely and has a fantastically gore-soaked climax that makes the previous 70 minutes entirely worth it. Every ounce of the tiny budget is on screen and though the actors might not be professionals and the camera-work is shaky, there is a passion and a heart to this film that movies will hundred million dollar budgets cannot match.If you don't go in expecting constant action or thrills and accept that this is a micro-budget film determined to tell a surreal, dream-like story of science gone horribly wrong, you will enjoy it. Trust me though, stick with it till the ending and you will love this film.

... for I thought this movie fell out of another dimension. A dimension of horrible movies, that is. Some dimension where Redneck Zombies is Four Star or greater. I am sure it was a weekend diversion for some of no talent to create this film. That it was released to the public... unreal. I have better films of my dog rolling in dead rabbits. Funny thing is that I still own my copy and will likely never part with it. Why? Who knows. Life is like that. I bought a VHS copy for three dollars. Judging from the packaging alone, I paid too much. Once viewed however, I was sure I should have been paid to watch it. The use of Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream Within a Dream" was very disturbing. Not that it was being spewed by a spooky doll head, but that I like E.A.P., and am quite saddened they could not choose a worse poet to hack. Highlights? Well, in one scene, after the first bloody scenes, two characters are walking through a basement and you get to see a large box hastily marked "Ketchup". Now, with such poor effects (and no budget for Karo Syrup or even one of Raimi's recipes) I am sure that box belonged to whatever fool was in charge of FX. Not even cute, useless and boring as hell... ensure you are paid to watch this movie if ever at all. You have been warned.

this was a headache inducing B o R I N G very slow paced and stupid flick sure it was Extremely gory but the fact is it was too inane for me to enjoy it it has awful acting laughable dialogue a very weak script and a very lousy finale avoid this piece of cow dung at all costs you have been warned BOMB out of 5