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Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ... see more see more... , Mackenzie Rosman , Christa Campbell , Sofya Skya

Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, and Michael Madsen headline first-time feature filmmaker Michael Straininger's story of a successful writer and scholar who falls under the spell of a bewitching seductress ... read more read more...on an obsessive quest for immortality. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story of the same name, Ligeia tells the story of Jonathan Merrick (Bentley), a respected academic engaged to the beautiful Rowena (Kaitlin Doubleday), but unable to resist the advances of ravishing siren Ligeia (Sofya Skya). Ligeia suffers from a terminal illness, and in order to cheat death she extracts the souls of others. After tricking Jonathan into supporting her ghoulish endeavor, Ligeia gradually draws him into her mysterious world of darkness. Forsaking his beloved Rowena, Jonathan joins Ligeia in her lavish manor at the edge of the Black Sea. There, Ligeia's amaranthine presence slowly erodes the fragile psyche of her prisoner Jonathan, forever cursed to be the victim of his own undying lust. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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  • sykora259517
    December 6, 2011
    sykora259517
    This movie also known as 'The Tomb' stars Wes Bentley (which I swear is some distant cousin to Ian Somerhalder.. There's times I thin I see an Ian movie & its wes in it instead! So now we know if Damon on Vampire Diaries ever has a Doppleganger, who would have to play it!) a Prof... read moreessor and author who gets himself into a dark affair with a Russian student that is experimenting with the mortal soul. Can it be captured, and reweave into another body? This dark moody movie was interesting, and not really predictable. I swear Wes Bentley is the Dark half of Ian Somerhalder. There's been pictures where you look at a certain way or quickly & you'd swear it was Ian but not. C+

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Staci Layne Wilson
July 3, 2010
Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com

There are some good horror moments (especially when Ligeia is doing her black-magic voodoo by administering absinthe and trapping souls in her secret dungeon), but mostly the movie is talk, talk, sex,... Full Review

David Nusair
April 12, 2011
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

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