Soulmate (2013)

Widowed Audrey retreats to an isolated Welsh cabin after a failed suicide attempt, to recuperate. Still haunted by the tragic death of her husband and struggling with her psychosis, she begins to hear strange noises.

Director:

Axelle Carolyn

Writer:

Axelle Carolyn

Stars:

Anna Walton, Tom Wisdom, Tanya Myers

3 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Anna Walton	...	Audrey
Tom Wisdom	...	Douglas
Tanya Myers	...	Theresa
Nick Brimble	...	Dr. Zellaby
Emma Cleasby	...	Alex
Guy Armitage	...	Tristan
Rebecca Kiser	...	Nell
Amelia Tyler	...	Nell (voice)
Felix Coles	...	Young Theresa
Anubis	...	Anubis

Storyline

Widowed Audrey retreats to an isolated Welsh cabin after a failed suicide attempt, to recuperate. Still haunted by the tragic death of her husband and struggling with her psychosis, she begins to hear strange noises.

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Plot Keywords:

horror directed by woman | suicide attempt | suicide | f rated | suicide attempt by slitting wrists | 

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Taglines:

She Thought She Was Alone

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 July 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Родственная душа

Filming Locations:

Brecon, Powys, Wales, UK

Box Office

Budget:

GBP600,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Forecast Features, ScreenProjex, Sterling Pictures Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Sound Mix:

Matrix Surround

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Nick Brimble was only cast the week before filming replacing a originally cast actor.

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Alternate Versions

For the UK release, the BBFC requested compulsory cuts to the pre-credits suicide sequence, as they felt that the risk of imitation was too high to be acceptable even at the 18 category, given the level of detailed focus on the suicide technique shown in the scene. The original cuts requested totaled sixteen seconds but the director, Axelle Carolyn, felt that implementing those cuts seemed to romanticize the suicide, so she instead cut out the entire scene.

User Reviews

Hello, I'm a ghost! Look at my white face! Awfully sorry for scaring you back there!

To be honest, Soulmate is a semi-decent film, in an escapist-fantasy-about-vulnerable-woman-who-meets- unattainable-man sort of way, but what it's not by any stretch of the imagination, is a horror film. And it's this fact that kind of makes it a victim of its own construction; the slow build of the first third (which is both effectively creepy and unsettling) ends up working against the film by setting a tone that the leads the big "reveal" and it's fallout to seem utterly silly and laughable. It's literally like Emily Bronte started a ghost story, and then it was picked up and finished by an aspiring self published YA author who's done too much Twilight fan fiction. What starts with one set of audience promises, just dives into a Gothic soap opera which aside from being a crippling disappointment, I found impossible to take seriously. If the film had launched straight in with the "reveal" (which it could easily have done without losing anything in terms of the narrative), I think it would have set a bar it could have sustained and been a reasonably engaging fantasy drama. As it stands, though it's just a very disjointed and untraditional ghost story that pulls in two directions and doesn't really succeed in getting anywhere in either.