A few weeks ago we showed you the trailer for Wes Craven's MY SOUL TO TAKE and many fans loved it but compared it to another familar Craven film, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (this person asks if that's a bad thing?) Regardless of your thoughts the October 8th release date is coming and Wes is confident about the film calling it "STAND BY ME with a knife"...

Follow up:

MTV caught up with the busy director (Craven is of course at the present moment directing SCREAM 4) and talked about the film as well as the post 3D coversion process.

MTV: It seems like the trailer (CLICK HERE) great job of setting up the story without spoiling anything.

Craven: It’s a great trailer. We were very happy. I kept saying it’s kind of “Stand by Me” with a knife. It’s not really a grisly gore-fest in any way. It’s as much a family story and coming-of-age story as anything else, but it does have murders in it and it does take place among 16-year-olds, so it does fall into that genre. But I really tried to reinvent that genre by doing something that had a humanistic story to it and kind of a psychological and even spiritual story to it, so depending on how you look at it, it’s either a story about personality or about souls.

Scream gets a mention as a comparison point how a sequel could function…

MTV: Is this a standalone film, or is there potential for sequels?

Craven: I would say that I certainly did not design it to be that, but it does have an element to it that actually could make it as easily a franchise as the “Scream” franchise, where you have different killers in each film. The central character, I think, would be very interesting to follow through a few more films, but it depends on how the film does.