Coel Devereaux (The Haunting of Morella)

Coel Devereaux (played by the late Lana Clarkson) is the main villain in Jim Wynorski's THE HAUNTING OF MORELLA, based very loosely on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe.
In Colonial America, a young witch, Morella (Nicole Eggert) is put to death... crucified, with hot irons put through her eyes... as her distraught husband (David McCallum) clutches their baby.  Seventeen years later, the baby Lenora has grown into a beautiful young woman (also Eggert).  Her father himself is now blind and unable to see how his daughter is being manipulated by her governess, Coel, who also happened to be the dead Morella's lesbian lover/minion in witchcraft.
Coel secretly plans to reanimate the dead Morella's corpse using the blood of the house's virgin servant girls in order to share in the bounty of the vast estate. The innocent Lenora is torn between Coel's machinations and the love of young male paramour Guy (Christopher Halsted). 
After killing several girls for their blood, including her current sapphic squeeze Diane (Maria Ford) in a topless liaison under a waterfall, Coel fights Guy and is about to kill him with a pickaxe when she is shot and killed by a passing Judge, foiled in her devious attempt for riches and living again with her lesbian love. 
   
Category:1990s
Category:Blonde
Category:Devious
Category:Knife
Category:Lesbian
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Nude
Category:Sex
Category:Topless
Category:Witch
Category:Demise: Shot
Category:Fate: Deceased