This film goes by many names. However, whatever they call it in whatever DVD bargain bucket you find it in, it should simply be called 'rubbish.' It's low budget. Nothing wrong with that you might say – there are plenty of classic low budget films out there. But this isn't one of them. It's set in a house where four university students move in. The first thing I noticed is that, despite the four girls knowing each other for much of their university life, they actually hate each other – leaving me wondering why they would choose to live together! If their constant bickering wasn't bad enough, their landlord's a 'soul eater.' This, again, presented a problem for me, as the four actresses clearly don't have ever PART of a soul between them, which is going to leave Mr Soul-eater with barely an appetiser to fill him up on.Maybe I'm being cruel. Maybe the girls DO have a soul. It's just they don't apply said soul to their acting. They're terrible. All of them. Then again, they're acting is positively Oscar-worthy compared to the awful computer special effects when anything even remotely ghostly happens.Yes, the girls wear skimpy clothes. But, seriously, if you only watch this movie to see girls wearing vest-tops and engaging in some (not particularly nude) sex scenes, then you're better off looking that sort of thing up on the internet and saving yourself an hour and a half.This film left me wondering whether it was only made because the director to get four girls wearing minimal clothes in the same house for a bit while he filmed them making out?http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Four young women move into their first off-campus house only to find that the owner (Mike Campbell) is a soul-eater.Prior to seeing this film, I had never heard of Mike Campbell. Looking him up, I see he has been an actor for a while and has ventured into writing, directing, and such. Based on this one film -- which he did everything for -- I have a few recommendations.First of all, the overall concept and storyline are not terrible and in another director's hands could have been something. So, Mike, you may have a future as a writer. As for directing and acting, you are not particularly good. At all. Even your casting needs work, as the only actress in this film who had any charisma was Katherine Browning (whose credits seem to only be in Mike Campbell projects). I wish her the best.The film itself is poorly shot, fuzzy and shaky, and takes at least the first forty minutes to really get going. I was left with the impression that this was made for the purpose of getting four young women alone in a house, possibly with clothes removed. Well, even on that count, it failed, so the skin and gore factor could not redeem the lack of everything else.Being released from Breaking Glass Pictures means most people will never see it, which is good. The fact it was released at all, when other independent films languish on the festival circuit, is depressing.

Well here we go again another c grade horror film that will disappear into obscurity in say a month. Bad acting with risible dialogue is not my prescription for a good time. I knew I was in trouble as soon as the film started with some horrible special effects and some of the most cookie cutter characters. The director substitutes these two problems by tossing sex scene after sex scene after sex scene in which there was nothing sexy about those scenes. A lesbian couple that are so annoying and a priggish girl add to the broth that has boiled way over my patience level at this point. I love Indy films that are shot on a shoe-string budget ( Check out Family Demons from down under or the no budget film Evil Things to satisfy your c grade film thirst. )but this film doesn't hit any level and after I watched it, I have re-titled it 4 dead girls and 1 dead boy.......

Hi everyone! It has been brought to my attention that horror film criticism is definitely missing a feminine voice, what with Lianne Spiderbaby and Michelle Clifford in hiding – and for very good reasons – and to this end, I have offered my good friend BAMBI HERSHBERGER to review the new, female-oriented horror film 4 DEAD GIRLS, aka 4 DEAD GIRLS: THE Soul Taker. Take it away, Bambi! Okay, so like there are these four girls, these four college students, they luck into buying this really cool three-bedroom house for cheap off campus. They are: insufferable goody two-shoes Lily (Katherine Browning), her sleep-around friend Bianca (Tiffany S. Walker), Lily's lesbian sister Lori (Ashley Love) and Lori's lesbian lover Pam (Leah Verrill). It's a really cute house – they have a candelabra from Bed, Bath & Beyond that costs a cool $59.99 in the living room – and they move in. Oh, yeah, there's this guy (Mike Campbell) who is the landlord, a real, creepy guy who probably hangs out at parks and pays little boys to pull their pants down – yeah, he's that creepy, who is this "Soul Taker," a Naluso Chito – who really is a figure in Choctaw mythology, I looked it up on Google so it must be true – who has lured girls to the house before and has taken their souls. He wears this Grim Reaper outfit that you can get at Partytime! Stores with the skull cut out that you can get for $40. He says stuff, "I must have your soul," and stuff like that and then he sucks them out of the poor girls with video effects.So the gals move in, and the first thing you know, they start bitching at each other. Lily is a religious pain-in-the-ass who gives Bianca a hard time for having sex with men and gives her sister Lori a hard time for having sex with women. What do you expect, Lily? The rest of the world will conform to your expectations and not have sex? Hey, I don't sleep around with every guy I see, but come on! It's really just as well as Lori and Pam make "hot lesbian love" with their tops on! Come on, people! I don't know a lot about THAT world but I KNOW that stuff doesn't happen in real life! So anyway. They're all bitching at each other about how Bianca sleeps around with men older than she – but hey, what's the point? The actress who plays Bianca is well over 40, hanging out with girls just out of high school – she can do with her life as she wishes! And Lily is down on Lori for leading a lesbian lifestyle and how their parents wouldn't approve – part of growing up is making your own decisions, Lily! What's going to happen? Mom and dad are going to cut you off of their Christmas card list? Well, anyway, the Soul Taker guy comes and strangles Bianca after her latest college professor conquest. NO ONE NOTICES. The walls are paper thin and the gals don't hear Bianca getting STRANGLED in the next room. The next day they notice Bianca didn't go to school. Her bedroom door has remained slammed shut since the night before and no one noticed. What are these girls studying in college? ROCKET SCIENCE? Well, they open the door and Bianca is DEAD. Pam, the only funny one says "She looks really dead!" HA! Well they all scream and go OH MY GOD and try to leave the house but all the doors are locked and somebody slams shutters over the windows, plunging them into darkness. I guess this means they're trapped in another dimension now. Pam says "I'm hungry, let's eat before all the food in the fridge goes bad." A few minutes later, Lily says, "Why don't we knock out some of the windows?' Pam gets all huffy and says "What with?" Pam are you the STUPID ONE, NOW? DUH! What about the candelabra in the living room? Well, they try to break out a window with a chair and the chair breaks into pieces! Oh, we're done for! And so the Soul Taker person comes and says YOU ALL MUST DIE! Aaaaah! People get stuck with knives and then pull them out slowly and the Soul Taker chases Lily around the house but since it's not that big a house, it gets really really boring. I mean, the hallway is only three feet wide and what fun is it being chased down a hallway that's only a few feet long …..You want me to spoil it for you? Seriously, do want me to spoil it for you? Lily is the only one left alive because she's innocent and the Soul Taker guy wants her to become his real estate agent and lure more stupid college girls to the house. She goes NO NO NO and he chases her around the teeny tiny hose and hallway and she says YOU WIN! I'LL DO IT! And the film ends with her showing the house to another stupid college coed with the Soul Taker guy smirking in the background. The end.Oh, the film was also known as THE RENTAL while it was in production.