Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

GazerRise Fantastic!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Mark Honhorst I'm not quite sure how to feel about this one. I want to like these art house type movies, but they can be a bit dull at times like this one. I liked it's use of Esperanto. It, and the fact that it takes place in a fictional place make it seem otherworldly, but it could have had more eerie moments and less of Shatner and the rest of the cast wandering seemingly aimlessly through the woods. And speaking of Shatner, I thought it was funny that he sounds less hammy while speaking in the artificial and ridiculous language "Esperanto" than he did in Star Trek. Anyway, I digress. I liked the movie's simplistic ideas regarding good and evil, and the ending gave me goosebumps, but...it's just one of those movies my mind refused to be disappointed by but I still kind of was. I went in with high expectations and left refusing to admit it wasn't as good as I had expected. It wasn't as scary as I wanted it to be.

funkyfry "Incubus" is a very strange movie to be sure – it's unique because it is the only film ever shot in the "universal language", Esperanto. It may be worth it for some viewers to see the film simply because it has camp-master William Shatner speaking his lines in this never-land language. But not for me. From the very first moments of the film you can tell what you're looking at – a good photographer with a bunch of amateur actors and an overambitious director gathered on the beaches of Big Sur in a desperate attempt to capture some of the magic of Ingmar Bergman's films "The Seventh Seal" and "Hour of the Wolf" and apply that magic to a straight-up horror film in the occult vein.The story is very confusing despite being very simple, due to the cryptic dialog and ineffective direction. I've seen it twice now so this is what I have been able to piece together – Shatner is playing a guy who is some kind of idyllic woodsman who lives with his sister in a cabin. A female devil worshipper sees him somewhere and gets a crush on him so she decides to corrupt him and make him a Satanist too, which her sister discourages. Soon Shatner is following the evil woman across a lovingly photographed wasteland, back to the beach again, and eventually he is involved in a confrontation with the "Incubus" (a male version of a Succubus, for those not in the know… this movie won't tell you so I might as well).The "Incubus" is literally a goat that someone put on top of Shatner that kicks him a bit and then disappears. Outside of some interesting but unoriginal photographic effects there really is nothing happening in this movie. Shatner's character completely forgets about the sister character, who has been blinded by a solar eclipse and spends most of the movie wandering around. There's no scares whatsoever. Maybe this movie appeals to people who like surrealist cinema. Usually I don't like that kind of thing anyway so I couldn't tell you if this is a good or a bad example of that school of cinema. My guess is that it's bad, and it's certainly bad from my perspective as someone who expects at least a minimum of character development and plot in a film.However the music is interesting and the photography is great. This is a good movie to watch if you were curious how to distinguish directing from photography because this is a very poorly directed but well photographed film. Other than that and the fact that it has Esperanto dialog there's nothing to distinguish it or make it memorable.By the way, I was able to see it this time in a 35mm presentation in the theater thanks to the producer Anthony Taylor who has a nice print and lives in Southern California.

Scarecrow-88 Kia(Allyson Ames)is a succubus working for the God of Darkness who is bored with luring already lost souls to hell. She wants to be a major factor in the Dark Lord's legion and thirsts for the desire to turn a pure soul to the dark side. Kia's sister Amael(Eloise Hardt), warns her that doing this might be a very bad idea, but she is determined to carry it out. The challenge she hungers for becomes quite great when she chooses Marc(William Shatner), a man who is deemed heroic by a warning Amael who says he saved several men from a fire without any fear of death. Marc's faith in God is strong. When Amael sees that Kia has fallen in love with Marc, she sees an opportunity to turn Marc over by abusing his sister Arndis(Ann Atmar)by calling an incubus(Milos Milos)to harm her. This film is truthfully about good versus evil, an age-old theme which never tires because so many difficult stories spurn from it. In this film, Marc will have to overcome a lot of adversity because the evil side are nefariously sneaky in causing great harm to your emotional state, challenging your will of purity at it's core. On the other side, Kia is shown as a woman of pure evil who finds love and acceptance from a pure man she can not seem to separate from. The film is very, very good..better than I possibly could imagine. It plays like a feature length "OUter Limits" episode and I was kind of hoping it would be that way. It has eerie, darkened black and white photography and the music is creepy. The way it is shot is also a plus..a lot of talented people came together to make this film. The novelty of it being in Esperanto does increase the film's cult status, but it's the overall ominous mood and the way the characters are lensed for which I'd say try this little recently restored gem(actually the restoration was produced by SCi-fi Channel).

Lee Eisenberg Obviously, the two things that "Incubus" really has going for it are that it's spoken entirely in the artificial language of Esperanto (listening to that language, it sounds like a bastardization of Italian), and that it stars William Shatner right before he became Capt. Kirk. He plays a man who gets involved with a devil woman. I know, it doesn't sound like much, but it's neat hearing Esperanto spoken. As it is, this movie seems sort of like a premonition of Shatner's movie "The Devil's Rain" (in which he also battles the Prince of Darkness).So anyway, this is a neat time capsule. And Esperanto sounds like a neat language. I'd like to learn it.