The Tomb (2009)

Disappointment for a huge fan!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Liked the cast. Too many credits as usual. OK beginning but lacked a sense of urgency. It just didn't move along like a good horror movie should. Interesting plot line but fell short. The ending seemed jumbled and disjointed. I wanted more. I would not go out of your way to rent this one, but if you are a alone and nothing else to watch then why not.Poe is one of my favorites but this is NOT one of my favorite stories of his. They tried to make it interesting but for true gore horror fans I would skip this one...I would say it was well cast. I would say the locations are lovely but as a great horror movie..I would have to say um "No". Once again this is NOT one of my favorite Poe short stories and did not make a great horror movie.

this was a good movie, but had a few minor problems, one that it should have had a little better story line and two which is the most important it needed to show some raw nude action with Sofya Skya, but other then that it was a good movie but i have seen much better. and also it could have a little better acting but as always Sofya Skya remains hot as hell, but Eric Roberts did some what of a shitty role. could also be looked as a slap in the balls to Edgar Allen Poe, and the caretaker's niece needs to learn to speak Russian but then that is just a opinion by someone who is a perfectionist "me" and also i found the that it wasn't really fallowing the original "The Tomb of Ligeia"

Well respected author and professor, Jonathan Merrik (Wes Bentley) is drawn to the allure of exotic grad student( into the occult, her family alchemists), Ligeia(Sofya Skya), who has almost perfected the process of "seizing souls", extracting the lifeforce of victims so she can retain her youth and vitality. Young and rich (both his parents are deceased), Jonathan is engaged to a lovely young woman named Rowena(Kaitlin Doubleday), whose father is a pathetic drunk (Michael Madsen). Dark and brooding, Ligeia captivates Jonathan; he's overwhelmed by her haunting beauty and decadent nature. Rowena is an understudy singer who is charming, with a bright wattage smile, the perfect mate for a successful young professor with the world as his oyster, yet Jonathan has his doubts (he's further complicated by how smitten he is with Ligeia). Seductively capturing Jonathan by addressing the darkness inside him, Ligeia will not only attain his hand in marriage but convince him to purchase her old family's manor. Ligeia needs to find a means to keep her illness from overtaking her and this will drive and motivate by whatever methods are necessary. Meanwhile Rowena pines for Jonathan and will hope to win back his heart once Ligeia's true self emerges once and for all revealing to him that he had made a mistake choosing her as his bride. When Ligeia hurls herself from atop the manor to the sidewalk, Jonathan attempts to move on and does so with Rowena. But, Merrik hasn't heard the last of Ligeia who plans to take control of Rowena's body so she can continue to live on, absent a weakened fleshly vessel, but he will fight to win his second bride back. With Eric Roberts wasted in a nothing minuscule part as the manor's Russian caretaker and the vacuous Makenzi Rosman as his troubled niece who live near Jonathan and Ligeia. Ligeia will use Rosman and get rid of Roberts so she can get close to Rowena. Merrik will seek Rosman's help once Rowena has been possessed by Ligeia. In the silly plot of THE TOMB, the spirits are sucked from the bodies of victims, contained in little jars and held in a cabinet by Ligeia, who later stores them for safe keeping hoping they will assist in her experiments for immortality. The spirits of those robbed of their lifeforce appear in a green tinted mist(the face shown as an image within this mist). Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has a small role as the University Chancellor who Ligeia must destroy in order to keep his knowledge of her diabolical experiments a secret. Bentley barely registers a pulse in his performance leaving Doubleday the task of garnering sympathy from the viewer. Skya is quite easy on the eyes and Doubleday's no slouch(and her transformation once Skya takes over is actually quite convincing)helping to give this movie some much needed juice.

I don't know what the heck that was, or why people need to rip off Edgar Allen Poe for ideas, other than he's in the Public Domain and won't ask for a royalty! The plot, which kind of echoes Poe, is that an English professor is enticed from his engagement to a singer to a sultry Goth babe from Russia, and is convinced to use his immense wealth to rebuy her Russian estate while she looks for ways to extend her mortality through magic and science. What we get is a confused mess of body swaps and the kings of Direct to DVD, Michael Madsen and Eric Roberts, playing largely unnecessary supporting characters.Other than that, some parts of the film look quite good for a low-budget made in Eastern Europe mess...