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The Tomb
The Tomb

The Tomb (2009)

42% User Rating
1h 29min
Horror

"Her body, your soul."

Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy.

Michael StainingerDirector

Cast

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Wes Bentley

Wes Bentley

Jonathan

Kaitlin Doubleday

Kaitlin Doubleday

Rowena

Sofya Skya

Sofya Skya

Ligeia Romanova

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Len Burris

Mackenzie Rosman

Mackenzie Rosman

Loreli

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Joel Lewis

Eddie

Christa Campbell

Christa Campbell

Mrs. Burris

Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen

George

Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts

Vaslev

Lydia Hull

Lydia Hull

Bartender

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Stephanie Reuter

Club Performer

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Jessica Graves Davis

Club Performer

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Meredith Byrd

Club Performer

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Jessica Kunze

Club Performer

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Tina Morrison

Club Performer

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Ashley Vazquez

Club Performer

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Anastasia Belyaeva

Young Ligeia

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Jamie Zamudio

Club Performer

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Yekaterina Fedorchenko

Ligeia's Mother

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Ashley Salazar

Club Performer

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Scott Stoltz

College Professor

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Josh Faulkner

Student

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Jeff Most

Russian Priest

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Joe Hanrahan

Goth Pastor

Reviews (1)

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Wuchak
Wuchak
Rating 70%

February 22, 2025

**_Eerie cinematic style and beauty with Wes Bentley_** An engaged professor at Washington University in eastern Missouri (Bentley) finds himself attracted to a mysterious woman of dark beauty (Sofya Skya) as the shadowy events wind up near the Black Sea. “The Tomb” (2009), also known as “Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia,” is loosely based on Poe’s macabre short story from 1838. It transfers the characters to the modern day while switching the locations from England (as well as the Rhine in the heart of Europe) to greater St. Louis in middle America and Ukraine on the Black Sea. If you want gory horror, I’d give this a pass. It’s more artistic and Gothic in the manner of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” “THE ETERNAL Kiss of the Mummy” (1998) and Coppola’s later “B’Twixt Now and Sunrise” (aka “Twixt”). Costing $8.8 million, it lacks the blockbuster budget of the first two, but it had a little more money to work with compared to the latter two, which cost $4 million and $7 million respectively (not factoring inflation). Like those four films, the sumptuous Gothic ambiance is worth the price of admission. There's a dark, mysterious beauty to the proceedings, which makes the flick a pleasure to watch even if the story is confusing, dreary or dull, as some criticize. It’s clear that the writer & director were aiming for art more than common horror thrills. Blonde beauty Kaitlin Doubleday is a highlight as Rowena, as is petite brunette Mackenzie Rosman as Lorelei. While the latter might look 15-16 years-old, she was actually almost 19 during shooting. Raven-haired Sofya is yet another highlight, of course. Lastly, Wes reads Poe’s poem “The Conqueror Worm” during the end credits, which is a nice touch. It’s followed by the quality song “Ligeia’s Bed” by Jon Kahn and star Sofya Skya. The film runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot in the St. Louis area of Missouri (Washington University, University City, Kirkwood and Maplewood), as well as Crimea, Ukraine, which is the peninsula on the north-central coast of the Black Sea. GRADE: B/B-

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The Tomb (US release) previously Ligeia Trailer HD

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