[5][6] The film stars Max Thieriot as Adam "Bug" Hellerman, who is one of seven teenagers chosen to die following the anniversary of a serial killer's death.

[8] 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 then his psychiatrist, he is shot down and carted away in an ambulance, leaving his young daughter Leah and premature son orphaned.

7 children born on the same day as Plenkov's death, who supposedly carry his personality traits, are dubbed the Riverton 7.

16 years later, the Riverton 7 – the blind Jerome King, the unpopular Alex Dunkelman, the creative Jay Chan, the timid Adam "Bug" Hellerman, the religious Penelope Bryte, the beautiful Brittany Cunningham, and the athletic Brandon O'Neil — gather for the annual ritual of "killing" a Ripper puppet to prevent his return superstitiously.

That night, Fang, revealed to be Bug's sister and going by her name of Leah, gives her brother a birthday present: a rocking horse created by Abel Plenkov.

Alex visits a distressed Bug and theorizes that the Ripper's evil soul jumped into one of the Riverton 7, forcing them to kill off the others.

After Jerome dies, Alex reappears and suggests that Bug inherited Dissociative Identity Disorder from his father and had unknowingly killed everyone.

[10] Accompanying Thieriot is John Magaro as Alex Dunkelman, Adam's friend who is abused regularly by his sadistic and boorish stepfather, Quint (Lou Sumrall).

Nick Lashaway plays Brandon O'Neal, a "dashing, athletic jock" and "the handsomest boy in his school" who is attracted to Brittany.

Because of the rising popularity of 3D films, it was post-converted to 3-D.[17] My Soul to Take was theatrically released on October 8, 2010,[18] with screenings in 3-D.[17] The trailer was attached to Resident Evil: Afterlife and Devil.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Dull, joyless, and formulaic, My Soul to Take suggests writer/director Wes Craven ended his five-year filmmaking hiatus too soon.