The first 65 minutes of build up are actually pretty good, especially the dialouges spiced up using sign-language, as one of the groupmembers are deaf. it is a house in the woods like movie, with good jolts and uncomfortable scares, and a few snakelike demons,curling in below,and out above, in a big belsebubian scream of hell.

the actors ive seen in other movies,so they are not newbi's, and delivers pretty good. the quality of sound and photo are at times surprisingly bad, but youll soon forget that. the score gives a good boost to the suspense, and the twists spread out in the movie are original and good.

the only minus about this flick where the last 10 mins, were i lost track of the action, and had to rewind and remind to what and why it became so.

but dont let that scare you away, because this movie will for sure scare you well, so the grumpy old man ,with a tounge filled with thong, does recommend this to your next bottoms up-party at the summer cabin.

With a very interesting title, some creepy advertising and a concept that had a lot of potential, 'Soul to Keep' had enough to make me want to see it. Have a lot of appreciation for horror, although it is not one of my favourite genres overall (am more a thriller and mystery person myself),and really do try to not have any bias against ones that are low budget. Regardless of whether the production values are not great or at least okay, have seen low budget films that were surprisingly decent.

Do not think that 'Soul to Keep' is that awful but am going to have to join the camp of those that didn't care for it. Instead of jumping on the "anyone saying they enjoyed the film must be a shill" bandwagon, actually try to avoid saying or insinuating that in any of my reviews like the plague (unless it is so blatantly obvious and misleading, there have been and still are far worse cases of this on IMDb),am not going to hold it against anybody that found some above average value to it, lets just say different strokes for different folks.

'Soul to Keep' is not an irredeemable film. The opening credits both unnerves and intrigues. The score has some degree of atmosphere.

Kate Rose Reynolds and Sandra Mae Frank give well above average performances, Reynolds' creepiness in particular was striking. Thought it was a very brave move casting a real life deaf actress as a deaf character and the film handled it remarkably sensitively with Frank's equally sensitive performance, it was that aspect of the story that came off most successfully.

The rest of the cast is pretty dire. Craig Fogel and Derek Long in particular are irritating beyond belief and make amateur dramatics pantomime acting seem award-worthy in comparison. Didn't care for a vast majority of the characters, with the exception of Tara, we don't learn much about them and the frustrating behaviours make one endear to them less. Felt my toes curling at hearing a lot of the stilted and cheese-ridden dialogue.

Also felt that the rather thinly plotted story never really came to life for me, with the only interesting aspect being the sign language/deafness angle. The pace is leaden, with the less eventful parts (too many of them) being slower than a snail, and the film suffers from a complete lack of suspense. The scares are too few, there is actually more unintentional humour here than scares, and those that are there are predictably executed and bland, the too loud and obvious sound effects not helping. The conflict is never really scary and has a cheap look. Got exhausted too watching the chaotic photography and my head is still aching.

In conclusion, not that awful but mediocre. 4/10

When Pop-Pop dies, his twin offspring inherit the remote home. His body was never found, but he is dead anyway. They go up there with a gaggle of care-free friends and party like it's 1999 with drinking, drugs, and obscene songs. It's all fun and games until the lights go out...and then they discover that there happens to be a demonic triangle and spells in the basement to conjure Beelzebub. I don't have to tell you what comes next.

I really liked the film up until the point they conjured the demon. After that, it became the same as any other demonic cabin in the woods, run around possessed films.

Guide: F-word. Sex. brief partial nudity