Incubus

Plot synopsis:
In a lake at a rock quarry, a young woman named Mandy and her boyfriend, Ray, are swimming. The two spend the night at the lake camping, but are attacked by an unseen figure; Ray is killed, and Mandy is taken to the hospital with a ruptured uterus and serious trauma. As the attack occurs, teenager Tim Galen experiences a recurring nightmare he has in which a woman is tortured by a monstrous figure; his grandmother, Agatha Galen, tries to dissuade him of his suspicions about the premonitory dream. At the hospital, Mandy is treated by Sam Cordell (John Cassavetes), a surgeon and physician in the small community of Galen.
Sam's teenaged daughter, Jenny, is dating Tim, but he disapproves of their relationship. At the hospital, Sheriff Hank Walden (John Ireland) questions Sam about Mandy's injuries, and a nosy local reporter, Laura Kincaid, arrives to question Walden, who forces her to leave. That night at the local library and museum, a librarian named Carolyn Davies is brutally raped and murdered while closing the building. During her autopsy, Sam finds she suffered similar wounds as Mandy, and finds an inexplicable amount of semen in her vagina.
Attempts to question the comatose Mandy about her attacker are futile. Sam shows Laura pictures of his deceased 2nd wife and their amazing resemblance to each other. The following day, local farmer Ernie Barnes and his two daughters are brutally slain at their farmhouse. Tim again is tormented by his vision, and runs into a local movie theater in an attempt to distract himself. While there, a young woman is raped and murdered in the downstairs bathroom of the theater, and the metal stall door is found nearly bent in half. Sheriff Walden and Sam arrive at the crime scene shortly before Laura, who insists she may be able to help the investigation. She confides in Sam that she discovered historical records detailing Satanism and similar crimes occurring throughout the town's history.
Tim confronts Jenny at her home, hysterical, and says he believes his dreams are responsible for the crimes. Sam gets a sample of Tim's semen to compare against that which was found inside the victims, but they do not match. Tim and Agatha meet with Sam, Jenny, Laura, and Sheriff Walden at the library that night, where Laura reads a passage from a book detailing the shapeshifter known as the incubus, which manifests through dreams and can appear in human form. Agatha reveals that Tim's mother had died before his birth and had been accused of witchcraft due to psychic powers she possessed; Agatha claims that the Galen family has a legacy of witch hunters, and that his dreams are a result of this.
Laura and Tim return with Sam and Jenny to their home. As Laura takes Jenny upstairs to go to bed, Sam attempts to induce Tim's dream to prove its connection to the murders. Tim goes into a seizure-like state and runs upstairs into Jenny's room where he tries to attack Laura with a dagger given to him by Agatha, but Sam intervenes and stabs him to death. Laura then approaches Sam, and her face briefly shifts into that of the monstrous incubus; it is revealed that Laura has in fact been the incubus all along, manifesting in female form. As Laura embraces Sam, he looks over her shoulder to see Jenny's dead body lying on her bed, blood pouring out from between her legs.

Tags: violence, flashback

Review:
Nightmare On Elm Street was a well thought-out fully connected movie...Incubus was disjointed at times and Reid's character was empty.
It's a standard premise--people get into an accident in the middle of nowhere, look around, discover something they should have left alone, and murder and mayhem ensure.Done right, you get the likes of Alien or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.But when the formula is implemented by ten spastic monkeys banging away at some typewriters, the result is Incubus.Make no mistake: There will be a special place in Hell reserved for all who had anything to do with this piece of trash being made.
This movie had not a single redeeming feature about it--bad acting, bad direction, and I could have eaten ten horror scripts, thrown up, and pieced together a script based on how the different chunks of partially digested script landed on the floor, and it *still* would have been more coherent than this.You have been duly warned..
Some of the worst acting and dumb story lines even for an grade Z movie.
I actually checked the rating before watching and thought "well it might not be too bad, some people are liking it".
Jay(Tara Reid)and group of her friends are stranded in a building where they realize that a serial killer is terrorizing them by going into their dreams.Fairly routine plot offers nothing fresh or interesting.The acting is hysterical with the token black guy being the worst.Admittedly the location sets in Romania are mildly eerie and there is a bit of gore and suspense in the climax,but I was bored whilst watching this film.Of course I didn't expect nail-biting suspense or tons of splatter,I just wanted to be entertained and "Incubus" failed to do this.Just another quickly forgettable horror film recommended only for some rabid fans of low-budget crap..
I tried to give Tara the benefit of the doubt since I had recently watched Devil's Pond and found it mildly enjoyable but this is just the worst film I have tried to watch in a long time.
The movie description makes you think you will see a nice Nightmare on Elm Street homage or something along those lines but trust me, you wont.
"Incubus" starring the always lovely Tara Reid, is a direct to internet, direct to DVD horror flick.
There are some good scares and some heavy gore, but when they finally go off on the killer the film collapses.Supposedly the Sleeper has been held in stasis for five years, still once loose he jumps around like super-fly and takes people out~!
In a film with a plot like "Nightmare on Elm Street" I expected some good fantasy/dream sequences.
There is a nice final twist, which I won't give away, but its not quite enough to make up for about an hour of sludge."Incubus"-the title is explained fairly well- isn't the most horrible thing I've seen, but it could have been a whole lot better.
Story line is just awful, it feels like the director heard some stuff about astral traveling then some stuff about incubus and thought that he will have super storyline, he was wrong..
Anyway, I strongly suggest to not to watch this movie, I feel that I have wasted my time big time.
I had a hard time, though, getting past Tara Reid's constant look of pain, or of having something stuck up her butt for the entire movie.
as for the title if you take your time to look the word incubus up you will notice it hardly relates to the film and is a bit misleading!
as for the anting expected better with someone like tara reid in the film!i would not recommend this movie it drags on and is boring!
Bad movies like "Trick or Treat", "When a Stranger Calls" , "Fair Game", "Stay Alive" should all be considered Oscar winners compared to this disaster.
...why did you go down the dark tunnel into the creepy, weird place that looks like an old insane asylum that even the police don't go, then this is the film for you.
It's crap and whoever made it should be banned from ever making a movie again.....and Tara and the cast should be required to attend acting lessons.
After a car accident in the mountains of Montana, six friends  Jay-Jay (Tara Reid), her brother Josh (Russell Carter), Bug (Akemnji Ndifernyan), Holly (Alice O'Connell), Peter (Christian Brassington) and Karen (Monica Dean)  decide to find a shelter to protect themselves against the cold night.
I do not know what is happening with Tara Reid, but since the last "American Pie" franchise, this former sexy and witty actress seems to be aged a lot, being completely unrecognizable.
After crashing their truck, friends decide to go look for help and come across a deserted house in the woods where they realize a series of medical experiments were conducted on a condemned serial killer that starts to affect their minds like him and must try to get out alive.This here actually wasn't all that bad and had some good parts to it.
INCUBUS is an entirely sub-standard horror film set in some kind of abandoned scientific research institute deep in the woods (which still has electricity, of course).
The acting is quite poor, particularly from the single-expressioned Tara Reid, although I have to admit that Akemnji Ndifernyan does his best with the role he's given and at least he doesn't die first.
It wasn't worth the wait.The plot: Jay (Reid) and her group of friends are stranded in a building where they realize that someone or something is terrorizing them by going into their dreams.
This movie started out like many other movies in this genre do; a group of students go to a big, creepy haunted place for some type of experiment, and wind up crossing paths with a deranged psychopath who resides there.
If you like films that are not big-budget Hollywood predictable fare, than you will enjoy this gem of a horror flick.
This movie is so scary, i loved it, and i am counting down the days until February 6 2007 (Unrated DVD) because i cannot wait to add the DVD to my horror collection, and i recommend everyone does the same!
Tara Reid, is very good in this (better than devils pond), the acting is passable and the plot is very good, it IS reverse Nightmare On Elm Street....So Horror Fans, And Nightmare On Elm Street Fans, I Recommend this movie to you guys...you guys will love it, it's awesome!
My friend said she will never watch this movie again, because she got nightmares for over a week...because of the sleeper.
Tara Reid and some of her friends seek shelter for the night in an old laboratory, only to become accidentally trapped inside.
When Tara Reid is the only recognizable name in a cast and is listed as a movie's star, watch out.
The other cast, i was very surprised, how well they acted, if you like gory films, this is very gory!
i am very Happy that i decided to download this movie, because if i would have known it was this good, i would have thrown a Halloween party, i can't wait until the DVD comes out, because I'm gonna buy it, and plus February 6 is my girlfriends b-day so we will order a pizza call up a bunch of friends, pop the DVD in the TV, i know they will love it!
First, I would like to emphasize that I'm actually a fairly easy guy to please when it comes to movies.
I notice that a few movies on IMDb with bad ratings make me feel that watching them wasn't a complete waste of time.
So keep that in mind.Now with that said, Incubus happens to be the worst movie I've ever watched in my life, so far.
What is truly abysmal about this movie is the script...it cannot be described by anything other than abysmal, and to give you examples: characters talking about 'dark' and 'darkness' when the whole place is obviously very well lit (I appreciate this could be a lighting problem, but if for a technical reason the lighting couldn't be sorted, someone should have changed the script accordingly to fit the budget / circumstances / status quo), a character shouting in fear 'Please don't hurt me...stay away from me!' then immediately killing himself with a tool he could've used to defend himself for instance, and countless instances of events that don't make sense and comments & exclamations that literally make you go like, 'Where did THAT come from?' or 'What does this have to do with what you just said?' After script taking the icing of the cake, I can easily say directing was bad.
Finally, acting was also corny & bad no less than 80% of the time, save for the 2 cast members with the smallest roles and perhaps the black guy.
But I'm sure the script & directing had major roles in producing such awful performance.I picked this movie only because I was interested in seeing the work of a specific cast member, nothing more.
But it bordered on painful to try & keep watching the movie to the end so I don't miss any scenes where that cast member appears.The idea behind the movie or the main plot of the story is perhaps the only element of the movie that is more positive than negative.
And you can know the main idea from reading the summary anyway.Avoid wasting your time on this movie unless you have a similar 'research' interest..
A Bit Too Much For Me. I like pg-13 horror movies (the fog, when a stranger calls etc.) i thought i would give this a chance, since it was getting good reviews, but i should have listened, they were right!
after all, horror fans seem to really enjoy it, but i can't take that kind of stuff, if you can you might really like it, if you are like me, you won't like it trust me, the movie was alright, this is why i gave it a 4:1) The acting - Better than usual direct to DVD films 2) Scary - If you want to get scared, this is your movie 3) Good Story - Good plot reminded me of Nightmare On Elm Street 4) Tara Reid - Im Just Very Pleased4/10.
i Don't really know who Tara Reid is though because most of her films all goes to DVD, but i am really interested in her new scary movie, the Canaan one, sounds interesting.
Anyways ya incubus, is very good, but i could have sworn that when i saw this at the movies it was called 'Heart Stopper' anyone know why?
Tara was good in this, and ya this was 100000000000000000000000000 times better than alone in the dark, if this movie had a better cast (with the exception of Tara) and it went theatrical and it had a better director like glen Morgan or James Wong, this flick could have actually been really good.
other than that it was good and if you want a good horror movie that will scare you, then i recommend it.
now, i can't say it was amazing, because, well, it wasn't.i cannot give it more than a 6/10 because i did have a few problems.1) The Acting EXCEPT Tara Reid (Awesome) I Did Not Know Anyone In This Film Other Than Tara!
I have a feeling it would have done excellent in theaters, but film company's these days, they let crap through (The Fog, When A Stranger Calls, Stay Alive, Alone In The Dark.) But Leave Good Movies Out!
but this is not the movie's fault.It was a pretty good flick, but don't watch it alone, you will sh*t your pants...I'm serious.
watch it with lots of friends.I hope You enjoy the movie!
6/10 = "The BEST Tara Reid movie yet!".
Basically from the very first minutes on you know this is not going to be a very good movie.
After seeing such a thing you know you are in for a bad and cheap genre ride.I just don't get this movie.
In fact, it even makes the movie unintentionally funny and clumsily to watch at times.
Some real ridicules stuff in this movie, that's not even really worth watching for the genre fans.No, you also shouldn't go see this movie and expect at least some good or original killings from it.
Tara Reid is one of the worst actresses I've ever witnessed, the script is so thin it's not even funny and the only character you'll have any kind of sympathy for is the "insane psycho murderer".
Jay: Opening The Door...They don't get any better.I don't recall seeing Tara Reid in another movie.
I usually love watching bad horror movies.
The only thing that will help me now is telling Holly about my out of body experiences as a kid, which has nothing to do with the plot, other than a cheap attempt to explain what could be happening." Jay is a medical student?
Tara Reid in another of her "Awesome" movies..
Awful is probably the best word to describe the entire movie, seriously, i haven't seen something this bad and hilarious ( in a bad way) in months.All right, the fun moments, like Tara Reid's acting.
There are so many other plot holes like these.Probably the best-of-the-worst scene is in a flashback, where we can check a little more of the killer's life.
There's even one character that disappears in the beginning and appears again in the end just to deliver the worst line in the whole film.So..i must say that Tara Reid is the best thing about this, now you can imagine how the rest is like..
Most of the reasons were covered here already.Campers lost on a single road in a place with so few roads that a globe should have been enough to help them find their way...Campers afraid to camp outside in the summer on a perfect day......A severe roll over accident in a van should have left someone with at least a scratch on them......And how they came to the conclusion that the factory was long ago abandoned when it obviously had working electricity....And they fact that they did not feel that there was an immediate risk of death when the bodies they found were obviously recently killed....And since there was at least one medical student in the mix, one should have noticed the bodies could not have been dead for more than six hours based upon the way they looked...Even Tara Reid looked a bit, well...
I usually like most horror films, even if they are bad, but it's usually because there is some redeeming value to it.
Genuine scares, good plot line, etc.Sad to say, Incubus has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING valuable about it.So the film starts with some odd fight between two scientists in some run-down bunker.
Now at this point in the film, you ask yourself why these people are so intent on getting inside the building, I guess it was supposed to be really cold outside and they needed shelter...despite the fact that it looked like it was the middle of summer and they all had camping equipment.
Tara then talks about how the government (CIA, NSA, DIA, etc) were all conducting experiments but those were shut down in 1995 but for some reason this one continued...deep in the Montana woods where lost campers could stumble upon a super-secret operation....hmmmSo anyway, Tara figures out that the serial killer is getting into people's bodies when they sleep and this is where the movie gets its name.
But I guess it sounded cool and they needed something to make people want to watch this film.
And we all know what happens next, he comes alive and with only Tara Reid left, there's a chase scene and she outsmarts him and then kills him by making him fall down the air shaft and then she strangles him.
We find that the girl who left in the beginning apparently found the police and of course the last scene, we see Tara Reid with the killer eyes....The film leaves you with a profound sense of...regret.
Bad acting, horrible dialog, a plot line that makes no sense and so many holes that it's almost like this was written by a budding drama student in about an hour.
Not even Tara Reid's ultra-tight shirt can save this film.
They get in to get help...but find dead bloody bodies and something stalking them...The reviews for this have ranged from some saying this is one of the worst movies ever made to others who love it.
It's not good but it's hardly the worst horror movie ever.
On the plus side it's pretty well-made, the acting actually isn't bad (top billed Tara Reid is good), the cast are all attractive (especially Russell Carter as Josh) and there's some explicit bloody gore.
For the record there's no nudity in this one at all.So--all in all--a pretty good horror film with some decent gore and a capable cast.
A wreck leaves a group of adults, led by Tara Reid, stranded in the middle of the Montana Mountains.
Reid as your lead ought to dissuade more cautious viewers who might not wish to waste their time on this film.
Not a terrible film, but still a waste of time..
NONE of this makes sense.I never expected this movie to be any good, especially after watching one episode of Tara Reid's show about being a drunken strumpet a LONG time ago.
I can not rehash the wasted time that was spent.I really do not understand the lustful sequence at the end, after "Jay" kills the "Sleeper".
Otherwise, this title makes no sense as well as the characters' description of the "Sleeper" as being an "Incubus".People really aren't that stupid, or are they?
Try to build a movie around Tara Reid and what do you get?