Soulkeeper is for the over 10 age group. It is a great get-together movie. It is a combination of comedy and horror. It is a good movie for teens to watch over pizza or popcorn. It is not too gory. It has enough humor in it to relax whatever horror is in it. It has a predictable plot. No overall surprises. The cast do an adequate job in interpreting the film. It is not one of those memorable horror films. It is an average so-so horror film. Take it for what it is. It does kill time. It is just under 2 hours in length, a perfect time for the movie. A few ugly creatures, some horror, and some comedy make it an OK horror film, not a real mind bender. Enjoy the low budget film for its comedic horror. You won't remember it in 10 minutes after the flick is over. Two thumbs up.

Soulkeeper starts as two thieves Corey (Rodney Rowland) & Terrence (Kevin Patrick Walls) are contacted by a guy named Mr. Pacal (Brad Douriff) & are asked to find & steal the ancient Ark of Lazarus, with a potential $100,000 up for grabs Corey & Terrence accept the job. The first clue to the whereabouts of the Ark is a dead body in a graveyard & from there it gets even weirder as Corey & Terrence come up against the forces of Satan & the fate of the world lies in their capable hands...Written, produced & directed Darin Ferriola I assume that Soulkeeper is meant to be some sort of light hearted supernatural comedy, my main problem with it is that it's not funny in the slightest & I personally didn't even crack a smile during this thing let alone actually laugh. The comedy is both slapstick & of the one-liner variety but I just don't find someone asking for a divine sign & then someone else farting straight after funny, many of the one-liners are references to current pop culture (a lame joke about The Backstreet Boys for instance) & will obviously date the film & I suspect many of the one-liners will simply go over people's heads, gay discussion about perfect penises & having sex with a pretty girl who suddenly turns into your mother is not my idea of comedy & it all came across as rather forced & none of it particularly funny. The actual supernatural elements of the plot are a disaster as well, the film limps from one set-up to the next, it introduces various silly character's who disappear as quickly as they are introduced & not that much actually happens except for these two guy's randomly going from one place to another in search of an Ark that becomes a Rock by the end of the film for some reason. I wouldn't actually call Soulkeeper a horror film in any way, sure it has supernatural overtones & a big monster at the end but otherwise there seems to be no effort by the makers to include any horror here at all, all the set-pieces & situations are geared up to (try &) be humorous (which they are not) rather than for scares. Basically I didn't like it & at well over 100 minutes Soulkeeper felt like it went on forever.The script is a mess, I am not even that sure what the thing is about, there's a pre credits sequence set in 1964, living dead girls, people with glowing eyes, a castle, a monster who is the servant of Satan, a dead body in a grave & a black guy who boasts he has a perfect penis before he is possessed. This is just a mess of ideas all hoping to be humorous which it most definitely isn't. Boring is more like it. Forget about any gore as there isn't any & I mean there like isn't a drop of blood in the entire thing that I can remember. There's a bit of nudity but nothing excessive. The big monster at the end looks pretty good actually & the special effects are cool but it's only on screen for about a minutes & doesn't do anything other than roar a bit.The production values are decent actually & it's quite well made but the films sucks so it doesn't really matter. There's a cameo from Michael ironside who literally phones in his performance while genre favourites Robert Davi & Brad Douriff are wasted in small roles. Ex-teen pop star Deborah Gibson plays herself.Soulkeeper is a comedy that commits the ultimate sin of being totally devoid of any humour, add that to the awful plot which is a mess & a zero horror quotient apart from a cool monster at the end & Soulkeeper is definitely not a film I could recommend.

Corey Mahoney (Rodney Rowland) and Terrence Christian (Kevin Patrick Walls), two small time thieves, are hired by Mr. Pascal (Brad Dourif) to heist a powerful and magic stone, which would bring evil souls back to earth. The two nice crooks get in troubled situations while looking for the stone. This movie is very disappointing, staying between comedy-horror-action, and not being good in any genre. I myself have had an additional problem, since I have watched it in a horribly doubt in Portuguese VHS. I hope one day the Brazilian distributors understand that the speech is an important part of acting, and therefore dubbed movies become ridiculous and senseless. Some jokes, which might be funny in English, or even depending on the pronunciation of the actor or actress, are lost in the dubbing process. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): `O Guardião das Almas' (`The Soulkeeper')

Two thieves down on their luck get hired to steal the Rock of Lazarus, an ancient relic capable of returning evil souls to earth. "Soulkeeper" has everything a good horror film should have-- a coherent plot, good acting (Karen Black notwithstanding), great special effects and lots of surreal images. Unfortunately, none of these formentioned elements pay off. The humor is unnecessarily vulgar and is delivered in all the wrong places (i.e. during serious situations or in the presence of danger) and the screenwriter/director daren Ferriola can't seem to make up his mind wether he wanted to write a excellent, refreshing horror film or a lousy teen comedy. Sigh........ My rating for "Soulkeeper"--4/10.About the DVD: first Look pictures has given the film a very respectable treatment for it's DVD release. The sound is nothing spectacular but has a little "umph" and a fairly stimulating surround-sound soundtrack. The widescreen picture is acceptable as well, with bright colors and only minor grain in darker scenes. For extras we have a "Making of the beast" featurette, which, despite running less than two minutes, is a interesting look at how the films various monsters were created. Next up is some brief behind the scenes footage, covering location scouting and how the film makers choreographed the final set-piece. We also get some cast and crew filmographies, trailers,a in-depth plot Analysis, and animated menus. my rating for the DVD--8 over 10.