Soultaker is an American fantasy horror film written by Vivian Schilling
and directed by Michael Rissi, released on October 26, 1990. It stars
Joe Estevez in the title role, alongside Schilling, Gregg Thomsen, Chuck
Williams, Robert Z'Dar, and David "Shark" Fralick. The film follows a
group of young adults who try to flee from the Soultaker when their
souls are ejected from their bodies after a car accident. Inspired by
discussions with Action International Pictures producer Eric Parkinson,
the script was based on a real-life car accident Schilling was involved
in. The film was shot in five weeks on a $250,000 budget. Originally
planned for a direct-to-video release, it saw limited theatrical
screenings, with eight prints distributed in United States. Since its
release, the film has received negative reviews, but won the Saturn
Award for "Best Genre Video Release" in 1992. A sequel was planned but
never made, and Schilling turned its premise into a novel titled
Quietus, published in 2002. Soultaker was featured in the tenth-season
premiere episode of the comedy television series Mystery Science
Theater 3000 in 1999.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soultaker_%28film%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1920:
Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after a
hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for
independence to international attention.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_MacSwiney>
1950:
Korean War: The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South
Korean II Corps and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division, marking
China's entry into the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Unsan>
1980:
Proceedings on the Hague Abduction Convention, a multilateral
treaty providing an expeditious method to return a child taken from one
member nation to another, concluded at The Hague.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention_on_the_Civil_Aspects_of_International_Child_Abduction>
2010:
Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly
violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Mount_Merapi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
croft:
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-
scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in
particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter),
especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate
pastureland shared by other crofters.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/croft>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial
hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the
Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make
a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who
impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who
frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials.
Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those
who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth.
Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who
would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and
private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to
the ruin of war.
--Henry Steele Commager
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Steele_Commager>