Shelter

Shelter/ 6 Souls (same movie)
Excellent movie. In the beginning of the movies, it seem familiar, that’s because I’d seen it before and the title was “6 Souls”. Same movie different titles.

Ironic…
I had to buy this movie from out of the country…watch it on my comp as a region 2….and as im watching it the scenery looks familiar….it was made right in my home town… i couldnt believe all that trouble and it was filmed here…ha anyway jonathan does a wonderful job playing duel characters the way he did..he really made each one different…although i was disappointed where they went with the story as it unfolded…i dont really know where i wanted it to go..however it wasnt there…..but the ending made it a tiny bit better. I would recommend it to people but i wish they would release it in the states..

Five Stars
Good story.

A Film Truer to the Real-Life Phenomenon of “Multiple Personalities Disorder” Than Most Viewers Ever Could Realise
I have to wonder how many viewers of this movie (very well made even if it was a film essentially made for video rather than for theatre release) have had direct experience with the phenomenon of multiple personality disorder. I have had such experience in my life, most directly for almost a full year, and, to some extent, the film corresponds to my own perception of this weirdness, i.e., THAT IT IS REAL, whether the explanation of it be purely psychological and neurological, occult, spiritual, or a combination of such factors.For example, the afflicted one’s trauma and anguish that occur as one personality gives place to another is part of what I have witnessed numerous times. It is deeply unsettling and frightening, as just about everything to do with this disorder, mental or (as in this film) spiritual, perhaps in both cases supernatural to at least some degree. In the case of a friend (whose case, preserving his anonymity, was thoroughly documented by paranormal researchers and resulted in several theses and dissertations about him, as I eventually was to learn), some of the physical manifestations even went beyond what this film shows. Allied to all of this, as the son of a Portuguese witch, were the extraordinarily vivid powers of E.S.P. and of telekinesis (or psychokinesis) of some of this friend’s personalities. Seeing the face change unrecognisably before one’s eyes and the body turn, variously, taut or looser upon the bones, the paranormal powers sometimes activate, too, is profoundly shocking to witness, not to mention to hear changes in dialect and in languages that the individual persons speak and/or understand. The changes in personality can be downright frightful.The film, “Shelter: before He Takes Your Life, He Will Take Your Soul”, a.k.a. “6 Souls” (of which the DVD with catalogue release number 210474-DV is the one viewed) handles these phenomena well, with restraint, and, believe me, in some ways less bizarre than they can take place in real life. To give too much a description of the supernatural nature of the tormented soul that Jonathan Rhys Meyers portrays would be to convey “spoilers” of the kind that many prefer not to encounter in a review. Let’s just say that the characters in this supernatural psycho-thriller are in for “quite a ride on the wild side” and leave it at that! I watched “Shelter” (“6 Souls”) for the second time the next evening after first having seen the movie, and it was as terrifying and vividly gripping as seeing it initially. The concluding moments, without verbalising anything, are of horrifying irony, like a stake driven into the viewer’s own heart.The movie’s setting is urban Pittsburgh and in the Appalachian hills and mountains, where old ways and folk religion have flourished in relative isolation, not far away from Pennsylvania’s metropolis. Most folks have heard tales of that region, so the cinematic milieu provides a credible sense of place and of primitive culture on which to peg the story. The result is a real work of art, however modestly this film has been marketed.

Non è un film che è diventato cult, almeno non in Italia.Trama, regia, recitazione (ecc…) è sopra la media e vederlo (e rivederlo) non guasta.Lo consiglio per gli amanti del genere horror/thriller.

visto al cinema e poi sparito, fortunatamente l’ho trovato qui. il dvd funziona perfettamente ed è arrivato nei tempi, lo consigli a tutti è davvero una bella storia