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According to the Chicago Sun-Times, “It’s funny as hell in a drive-in splatter movie kind of way, smart and insightful and respectful in its depiction of modern-day teens, brimming with sly and satiric social commentary — and legitimately profound.”

There’s a fair bit of blood involved, but this isn’t an ultra-gory splatter movie, so much as a form of a cat-and-mouse slasher movie.

Picture it: In a world where realities merge, all the teenagers in an upscale cookie-cutter housing development find themselves caught up in a game that transforms the aggravations of their daily lives into the horrors of a splatter movie.

“Black Souls” is the antithesis of a sensationalist splatter movie.

It is, finally, a splatter movie trying to pass itself off as a Sundance film, and a few critics at Cannes were outraged by the tests of faith it presented: of Christian faith for the characters, of plausibility for the audience.