Father Lareaux travels to a home for mental illness to perform an exorcism on a patient, a well-known scientist who has slaughtered his own family following a moment of madness. The ceremony will be very exhausting, but something very important leaps out of it. Maya is Father Lareaux's assistant and knows the method of decrypting encrypted messages. From her analysis of some papers collected in the invader's room, the name of Peter Kelson, a well-known criminologist who is incredulous that there is evil in the sense of an evil presence, comes up. Maya gets in touch with him and gives him the recording of the exorcism so that he can get his own impression of the affair. Many disconcerting phenomena of unknown origin nag at the lives of Maya (previously herself freed by an exorcism) and Peter, whose belief about the absence of occult forces begins to waver. Some signs are unmistakable: the reign of evil is about to come over in the form of an ordinary mortal... and it will be Peter himself who will decide where to tip the balance!
Films about the advent of the antichrist have come out in spades, and this Lost Souls adds nothing to the cauldron of the already offered. Technically it is well done and the acting is within the classic patterns of the genre, but it lacks salt to a rather bland and, at times, almost boring script. At times one feels like hitting the fast-forward button on the video, to watch a few more eventful scenes, and watch only the last 20 minutes, where there is finally no shortage of excitement. The color choice is apt, wrapping the film in a gothic flavor such as few manage to evoke.
Despite the lack of originality, and for fans of the genre, the film is still worth a look; others go brush up on titles such as Rosemary's Baby and The Omen...
Review by Maxena
