History Film / Soultaker

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: The detective investigating the crash tries to [[Series/{{CSI}} get his Grissom on]] by questioning the odds of a car doors opening by themselves in a high-speed, head-on collision. In the MST version, Crow quickly and correctly points out that the odds are actually quite good.

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: The detective investigating the crash tries to [[Series/{{CSI}} get his Grissom on]] by questioning the odds of a car door opening by itself in a high-speed impact. Crow quickly and correctly points out that the odds are actually quite good.

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!!Tropes used in ''Soultaker'':

* GetOnWithItAlready: "This has action ''and'' nostalgia, because we've seen it before."

'''''Soultaker''''' is a 1990 fantasy film starring Vivian Schilling (who wrote the screenplay and co-wrote the original story), Joe Estevez and [[LanternJawOfJustice Robert Z'Dar]]. The story involves a group of teenagers - unaware that they were killed in a car crash (due to the carelessness of their coked up driver/good friend) - on the run from an [[TheGrimReaper angel of death]]. As they flee from "[[{{Psychopomp}} The Soultaker]]", he begins picking them off one-by-one and becomes infatuated with one of the teenagers, Natalie, who is the spitting image of his lover in a past life. The two remaining teens, Natalie and her ex-boyfriend Zach, attempt to reunite their souls with their hospitalized bodies before their parents decide to pull the plug.

* TheEighties. Depressingly so. (Production ran in the late '80s.)

* ReincarnationRomance: Toyed with. [[spoiler: Natalie apparently resembles the woman that the Soultaker shot in a previous life when her caught her in the act of infidelity. The movie isn't clear if she ''is'' reincarnated, or if Natalie just looks like her, but regardless, the Soultaker thinks she is.]]

* EvilWearsBlack: How the Soultaker dresses.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Joe Estevez, younger brother of Creator/MartinSheen and star (of about two scenes) of the ''[=MST3K=]''-featured film ''Film/{{Werewolf}}''.
** And B-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar, who [=MSTies=] will recognize from ''Film/FutureWar''. More general schlock enthusiasts will know him from the ''Kabuki Kop'' movies, as well as ''Film/ManiacCop'' and ''Pocket Ninjas''.

'''''Soultaker''''' is a 1990 fantasy film starring Vivian Schilling (who wrote the screenplay and co-wrote the original story), Joe Estevez and [[LanternJawOfJustice Robert Z'Dar]]. The story involves a group of teenagers - unaware that they were killed in a car crash (due to the carelessness of their coked up driver/good friend) - on the run from an [[GrimReaper angel of death]]. As they flee from "[[{{Psychopomp}} The Soultaker]]", he begins picking them off one-by-one and becomes infatuated with one of the teenagers, Natalie, who is the spitting image of his lover in a past life. The two remaining teens, Natalie and her ex-boyfriend Zach, attempt to reunite their souls with their hospitalized bodies before their parents decide to pull the plug.

* DistressedDamsel: Natalie constantly needs to be rescued by Zach.

* FanService: The ''extremely'' lengthy sequence of Natalie taking a bath is clearly only in the film to add this element. Stranger still that the actress actually ''wrote'' this film.

* NoNameGiven: The Estevez soultaker.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Zach Taylor shares a name with [[ZacharyTaylor the 12th President of the United States]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Joe Estevez, younger brother of Martin Sheen and star (of about two scenes) of the MST3K-featured film ''Film/{{Werewolf}}''.

** And B-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar, who [=MSTies=] will recognize from ''FutureWar''. More general schlock enthusiasts will know him from the ''Kabuki Kop'' movies, as well as ''Film/ManiacCop'' and ''Pocket Ninjas''.

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Apparently, they can be stuffed into rings and carried around like {{Pokemon}}.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Zach Taylor shares a name with the 12th President of the United States

* AuthorAppeal: Vivian Schilling was in an auto accident that nearly ended her life and has inspired much of her work. Vivian's book ''Quietus'' has received positive reviews and is about a plane crash survivor who is haunted by angels of death.

Completely unrelated to the {{anime}} series [[Anime/SoulTaker with the same name]].

** And B-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar, who [=MSTies=] will recognize from ''FutureWar''. More general schlock enthusiasts will know him from the ''Kabuki Kop'' movies, as well as ''Film/ManiacCop.''

''Soultaker'' is a 1990 fantasy film starring Vivian Schilling (who wrote the screenplay and co-wrote the original story), Joe Estevez and [[LanternJawOfJustice Robert Z'Dar]]. The story involves a group of teenagers - unaware that they were killed in a car crash (due to the carelessness of their coked up driver/good friend) - on the run from an [[GrimReaper angel of death]]. As they flee from "[[{{Psychopomp}} The Soultaker]]", he begins picking them off one-by-one and becomes infatuated with one of the teenagers, Natalie, who is the spitting image of his lover in a past life. The two remaining teens, Natalie and her ex-boyfriend Zach, attempt to reunite their souls with their hospitalized bodies before their parents decide to pull the plug.

* StairwayToHeaven: There's apparently an elevator to get there. And a ladder.

* DistressedDamsel: Natalie

* FingertipDrugAnalysis

* GunsAreWorthless:
-->'''Crow:''' ...So a 7-iron knocks him cold but a gun does ''nothing.''
** Well, the implication was that the Soultaker didn't see Zack coming with the golf club and thus couldn't go intangible, but because he knew Natalie was going to shoot him he could prepare in advance.
*** So why not always go intangible?

** And B-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar, who [=MSTies=] will recognize from ''FutureWar''. More general schlock enthusiasts will know him from the ''Kabuki Kop'' movies, which I assure you are real.
*** You may also know Z'Dar as The Film/ManiacCop.

* RedHeadedHero
* ReincarnationRomance
* SelfInsertFic

* StairwayToHeaven: There is none, apparently.
** It's more like an elevator connected to a hallway to Heaven.
** There is, however, a ladder.

* ViewersAreGoldfish: So very, ''very,'' '''very''' much.

*** You may also know Z'Dar as The ManiacCop.

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