Lost Souls is the chilling 2000 directorial debut of Academy Award winning cinematography Spielberg regular Janusz Kaminski (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan). Father Lareaux (John Hurt), Father Jeremy (James Lancaster), Decon John Townsend (Elias Koteas) and a young woman named Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) visiting a patient named Henry Birdson (John Diehl) in a mental institution upon his request who happens to be a convicted killer and seemingly possessed. The four visitors perform an exorcism which causes a brain aneurysm and renders Henry speechless. Sometime later, Maya deciphers some notes in Henry's room which leads her to the name Peter Kelson (Ben Chaplin) who has made a career out of studying murderers and writing books on them. Maya believes that the Devil will possess Peter and thus take on human form just as God did with Jesus. Maya tracks Peter down to his home in New York, as events start to happen that ultimately convince him that he will indeed be possessed by the Devil...moreless