She is the older sister and nemesis of the film's protagonist Adam 'Bug' Hellerman. Abel soon discovered that he was the notorious serial killer called The Riverton Ripper.
Abel tried to get his pregnant his wife and daughter out of the house, but his alter ego caused him to murder her right infront of Leah. Plenkov then saved his unborn child. Plenkov was then shot by the police and taken to the hosptial, the very same night that seven children were born. Leah and her brother who was named Adam were then taken in by their late mother's' sister Mae Hellerman. Mae raised Adam as her own son. Because Adam had survived his dead mother's womb the entire town of Riverton saw it as a miracle.
This caused Leah to hold a long hatred towards him. My Soul to Take is a American horror psychological slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven. The film stars Max Thieriot as the protagonist Adam "Bug" Hellerman, who is one of seven teenagers chosen to die, after his father, Abe Plenkov, was a convicted serial killer suffering from multiple personality disorder, prompting seven of his personalities to inhabit the bodies of his friends that were born the day he died.
Or so they thought. Family man Abel Plenkov, a sufferer of Dissociative Identity Disorder, accidentally discovers that he is the Riverton Ripper, a local masked serial killer.
After killing his pregnant wife Sarah, and his psychiatrist, he is gunned down, and carted away by ambulance, leaving his young daughter Leah and premature son orphaned.
On the way to the hospital, a paramedic suggests that Plenkov is innocent, but he houses multiple souls, with the Ripper being one of them. Near death, Plenkov revives unexpectedly, slashes the throat of the paramedic, causing the ambulance to crash and burn and seemingly escapes. Sixteen years later, the Riverton Seven:.
Bug is elected but fails. Not only that, Jay is murdered by the reappeared Ripper. At home, Bug begins to redo his class project, exhibiting Jay's creativity. At school, Brandon torments Bug and Alex, on orders by Fang, a tyrannical bully. Bug and Alex spy on Fang, to see if Brittany has a crush on him. During their surveillance, Fang cruelly alleges that Bug has been in institutions for killing people.
Bug unwittingly begins imitating the Riverton Seven, including Fang. If anything, I distrust people who always agree on everything. But I did call foul on a few critics who labeled Wes Craven's film My Soul To Take as "another generic slasher" or something along those lines, because love or hate the film, there is absolutely no way one could say it was "generic" if they actually watched the movie.
Sorry, but if I had a nickel for every slasher movie that killed its female characters off first, had a protagonist dress as a California Condor and puke on a bully, and let the hero get the living shit beat out of him by his sister out of nowhere, I'd have precisely one nickel.
Before I start my defense proper, I want to put a disclaimer here - this is not some unsung masterpiece. Originally shot in , there were extensive reshoots and rewrites in and then a 3D post-conversion that delayed it until October of ; some seem to be his choice but many were enforced by the studio, which was understandably nervous about this peculiar, high-concept blend of psychological and slasher horror. I have yet to fully piece together the original way the movie went, though it seems at one point it was more like a blend of his Freddy Krueger and Horace Pinker characters, with the deceased serial killer returning from the grave to exact revenge on the children who were born the night of his death.
We never get to see all seven of them in action in Esparza's character; just the killer and a "normal" one, so it's unclear nor does it really matter who's who when we cut to 16 years later as the "Riverton Seven" are celebrating their joint birthday, but it DOES give a decent excuse for their stock personalities.
One is a hothead bully, one's an overly religious "weirdo," one's an artist, etc. The hook of the movie is the possibility that he's snapped and is the one killing his friends, as he seems to be absorbing their personalities as they die. For example, Jay Jeremy Chu is the artistic one who creates the giant puppets used in their annual Ripper Day celebrating their birthday and the anniversary of the Ripper's death - how did this tradition start, exactly?
Shortly after, Bug suddenly displays the skills to create a "puppet" of sorts - a California Condor costume for his best friend Alex to wear during the film's nuttiest sequence which speaks volumes. Not all of this is exactly clear; we haven't known Bug long enough to know that he didn't have that ability already anyway, but that's an interesting concept all the same - and seems to be of far more interest to Craven than the usual slasher scenes, which tend to be quick more than one kill is off-screen entirely, in fact.
I actually tried to find a clear shot of the killer in the movie, and this was the best I got - not exactly standard procedure for a "generic teen slasher.
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