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The movie started with a good idea then quickly went south. At times the sound was weird and it was hard to understand Reid....Glad I saw it on DVD so I could run it back 15 times to catch what she was saying. Just too slow moving to be a good horror movie. I do give a thumbs up to the make-up on the main scary dude, to bad they wasted it on this movie. I had heard it was being compared to Nightmare On Elm Street, but I didn't see much of a connection. Nightmare On Elm Street was a well thought-out fully connected movie...Incubus was disjointed at times and Reid's character was empty. All in all I wouldn't recommend it to be your first pick to rent.

"Incubus" starring the always lovely Tara Reid, is a direct to internet, direct to DVD horror flick. In other words don't expect much. Six incredibly stupid friends are lost in the woods, duh! And seek shelter in an apparently abandoned compound. The only smart one, pay attention to her folks!, decides to risk the outdoors. Reid, playing Jay, her brother, a very irritating actor I don't know, and 3 others go inside. Ala, the descent to hell.

Inside is a man called the Sleeper, you dream, he takes your body, and kills. The director creates some good atmosphere and Tara does manage some good moments of "oh my God?" Basically this was a bad script. The story makes less and less sense as it goes. There are some good scares and some heavy gore, but when they finally go off on the killer the film collapses.

Supposedly the Sleeper has been held in stasis for five years, still once loose he jumps around like super-fly and takes people out~! Hello, five years? Wouldn't your muscles atrophy a bit? The end comes down to Tara and the killer as you must have known. This gets confusing. In a film with a plot like "Nightmare on Elm Street" I expected some good fantasy/dream sequences. There is only one, right near the end and its good, but it leaves you wanting much more. There is a nice final twist, which I won't give away, but its not quite enough to make up for about an hour of sludge.

"Incubus"-the title is explained fairly well- isn't the most horrible thing I've seen, but it could have been a whole lot better. There isn't enough back story given to make us care and there isn't enough of Tara shown if your wondering. This is for die-hard horror fans only and even then I hope it just inspires you to make a good flick of your own.

Jay(Tara Reid)and group of her friends are stranded in a building where they realize that a serial killer is terrorizing them by going into their dreams.Fairly routine plot offers nothing fresh or interesting.The acting is hysterical with the token black guy being the worst.Admittedly the location sets in Romania are mildly eerie and there is a bit of gore and suspense in the climax,but I was bored whilst watching this film.Of course I didn't expect nail-biting suspense or tons of splatter,I just wanted to be entertained and "Incubus" failed to do this.Just another quickly forgettable horror film recommended only for some rabid fans of low-budget crap.

It's a standard premise--people get into an accident in the middle of nowhere, look around, discover something they should have left alone, and murder and mayhem ensure.

Done right, you get the likes of Alien or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

But when the formula is implemented by ten spastic monkeys banging away at some typewriters, the result is Incubus.

Make no mistake: There will be a special place in Hell reserved for all who had anything to do with this piece of trash being made. This movie had not a single redeeming feature about it--bad acting, bad direction, and I could have eaten ten horror scripts, thrown up, and pieced together a script based on how the different chunks of partially digested script landed on the floor, and it *still* would have been more coherent than this.

You have been duly warned.

Can't believe anyone would think this is scary. Some of the worst acting and dumb story lines even for an grade Z movie. Tara Reid, what can you say about this actress. She has one expression, its like whats going on here, I'm clueless. I guess a look can take you so far even without any talent. I just wonder who is giving this a decent rating. Is the studio behind it doing it. AOL that had it to download? I actually checked the rating before watching and thought "well it might not be too bad, some people are liking it". There are so many good, small independent movies out there that are looking for distribution, why give this a release on DVD? To compare this to Nightmare on Elm St is just crazy.

I could not even get through this film. It had to be turned off. I tried to give Tara the benefit of the doubt since I had recently watched Devil's Pond and found it mildly enjoyable but this is just the worst film I have tried to watch in a long time. The acting and dialog are beyond corny and laughable.It's B-grade in terms of premise and execution.The concept of the film is so far-fetched its hard to even get into,I will venture to say its impossible to get into. Also, who ever dressed Tara in that see-through top needs to be exiled from working in film. The movie description makes you think you will see a nice Nightmare on Elm Street homage or something along those lines but trust me, you wont. the only horror about this film is the fact you have to pay to watch it. -the positive ratings here are obviously done by someone associated with the film, check their comment histories-

This is worst horror movie I have seen in a while. Story line is just awful, it feels like the director heard some stuff about astral traveling then some stuff about incubus and thought that he will have super storyline, he was wrong.. Acting? It feels like movie director got the worst actors available, I heard this movie had 5 million budget? Like what the hell? It looks like 10 000$ movie. Anyway, I strongly suggest to not to watch this movie, I feel that I have wasted my time big time. Its more like comedy, I actually laughed instead of being horrified.

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1 out of 10

I was looking forward to this movie, it sounded decent.. I had a hard time, though, getting past Tara Reid's constant look of pain, or of having something stuck up her butt for the entire movie. Also the continuity was a bit lacking to say the least. One scene Tara's bright blue shirt showed off her itsy bitsy teensy whiter than white bra, and in the next one you can hardly see through the shirt, her bra is much more covering and not so white, then we go back to the first one and shes bouncing almost out of her shirt, then back to the more solid sturdy version. What the??? Also the bloodstains near the end kind of got bigger then smaller, then bigger again, and I really just had to frown and wonder why I tried to stay awake for the whole 87 or so minutes...

After crashing their truck, friends decide to go look for help and come across a deserted house in the woods where they realize a series of medical experiments were conducted on a condemned serial killer that starts to affect their minds like him and must try to get out alive.

This here actually wasn't all that bad and had some good parts to it. One of the better ones is the overall look of the house and its thrilling atmosphere from the rather creepy and eerie location used. Since most of the time is spent in the hallways of the underground facility, this one gets really creepy in the first half with its usually-darkened state, the rash of discoveries and long, winding design that generates some big, tense moments in here. The early discoveries are the best, as them relying on flashlights exploring the facility leading to a couple of tense passages within the film as they head down the darkened areas. From the grim discoveries left lying around in bloody pools to the scenes where they're going through the laboratory with all the equipment on display, there's enough here to make it feel really creepy. As well, there's also a really great story to keep this one feeling strong with all the strange medical experiment lying around the facility, their limited knowledge of what's going on and the mystery gradually becoming clearer the longer they're in danger about the study going on with him which is rather intriguing, all backed up with a couple of dead bodies and a fantastic revelation sequence, this one has a pretty strong back-story. There's also a rather disturbing back-story that involves tongues which scores points for both being bloody as well as being genuinely disturbing and scores the film's biggest shock scene. The last big part here that works is the gore, which comes from some rather tense stalking scenes here from their first encounter in the tunnel to the big confrontation inside his protective cell. These here are what hold the film up as this didn't have a lot of flaws, but they were pretty big. The first is that there's a great deal of selected stupidity in here that doesn't always work. Frankly, choosing to go into an uncharted house in the dark is a really unwise move, as is the film's tendency to have them remain instead of trying to get out, as once it's established that something is wrong the focus shifts away from trying to escape and becomes more about trying to understand the situation. That makes no sense, as the situation grows to concern the others about the situation in what quickly grows tiring, the fact that nearly everything in here, from top-secret military experiments to how to operate the machinery and much, much more in here's explained by one of the characters despite there being no knowledgeable instances before where there's evidence of that. As well, there are also some pacing issues which really keeps the kills all the back-half of the film rather than spaced out more evenly. Along with the film's somewhat convoluted story, which can get a little over-explained at times, there's not much else wrong here.

Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

...why did you go down the dark tunnel into the creepy, weird place that looks like an old insane asylum that even the police don't go, then this is the film for you. For me, when an actor says "What's that?" and another replies "It looks like a kind of time machine" I say "This looks like $hit." And that's what I say about this movie. It's crap and whoever made it should be banned from ever making a movie again.....and Tara and the cast should be required to attend acting lessons. Here's the deal: You drop down an opening and then, instead of going back up that opening, you try to find another way out...in the meantime, some weird guy is manipulating your friends. You know this, and can stop it, but you don't. Why? How many times did I think 'go back there and climb out'?...Uh, each time I thought about it. DO NOT PAY TO SEE THIS MOVIE!! IT IS CRAP It's on par with a Troma production. If you know what that means, you'll either love it or hate it. If you don't, then you'll probably hate it.

This is without any doubt the worst movie I have ever seen, and I've seen some bad ones. The first warning sign should be Tara Reid in a serious acting role. The only serious thing about this movie is it's seriously horrible. Bad movies like "Trick or Treat", "When a Stranger Calls" , "Fair Game", "Stay Alive" should all be considered Oscar winners compared to this disaster. The plot is so utterly stupid it should have been labeled a comedy. This is the type of movie that if I rented it full price I'd lie and say it was unplayable just to get another rental. Watch paint dry, or grass growing for 90 minutes instead. Trust me, you'll thank me later.

i agree with some of the comments i have already read this film was awful! there was the usual car breaking down well accident which leaves you stuck in the middle of nowhere plot! as for the title if you take your time to look the word incubus up you will notice it hardly relates to the film and is a bit misleading! as for the anting expected better with someone like tara reid in the film!i would not recommend this movie it drags on and is boring! horror? if anything it was a comedy especially towards the end when baldy starts speaking! with that accent he sounded Australian one minute then American the next i could not decide.definitely give this one a miss and go to sleep for an hour and a half it would be more exciting.

After a car accident in the mountains of Montana, six friends – Jay-Jay (Tara Reid), her brother Josh (Russell Carter), Bug (Akemnji Ndifernyan), Holly (Alice O'Connell), Peter (Christian Brassington) and Karen (Monica Dean) – decide to find a shelter to protect themselves against the cold night. With the exception of Karen, the other five friends break in a facility using a rope through the skylight, but the rope breaks and they become trapped in the laboratory. They find two scientists dead and another completely insane, and they realize that the team of scientists was conducting experiments with a serial-killer in coma. When each youngster sleeps, the Sleeper (Mihai Stanescu) invades the dream turning his victim into a slayer. The survivors try to escape from the sleepwalkers and find an exit.

"Incubus" is awful and incoherent since the first dialogs. When the group of friends decides to walk trying to find a shelter, one of the girls says that she will stay because her shoes cost five hundred dollars. Then they decide to leave the winding road to walk through the woods in the night. Then they decide to trespass the gates of a facility because it is too cold outside. However, Jay-Jay takes her coat off as soon as she reaches the underground corridor. And the absurd situations go on associated to some of the most terrible lines ever. I do not know what is happening with Tara Reid, but since the last "American Pie" franchise, this former sexy and witty actress seems to be aged a lot, being completely unrecognizable. My vote is one.

Title (Brazil): "Pesadelos Mortais – Incubus" ("Deadly Nightmares – Incubus")

"Incubus" has been on the shelf for a while. Filmed in late 2004, it collected dust for a year and half and then premiered on AOL. It finally comes to DVD this February. It wasn't worth the wait.

The plot: Jay (Reid) and her group of friends are stranded in a building where they realize that someone or something is terrorizing them by going into their dreams. Can they stop the madness? Wow, this is one badly acted movie. The token black guy (Bug) was the worst. His line readings were awful. Time to go back to acting class.... Alice O'Connell (Holly) can be seen reading the cue cards - with no emotion whatsoever. I'll save the worst for last: Reid has been better ("Silent Partner" for example) but she doesn't show talent here. Just a blank expression. Her screams (and moans) are even miscued and lifeless.

The only saving grace was the climax\ending. It had some suspense and gore and was put together well. If only the whole movie was like that.

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Tara Reid and some of her friends seek shelter for the night in an old laboratory, only to become accidentally trapped inside. They find two dead lab workers and one survivor who has gone insane. They also find what appears to be a comatose man in a glass tank who may hold the key to the mystery. As they sleep, the coma patient (a killer, not surprisingly) invades their minds. The movie starts off promisingly enough, if a little slow, but then just sort of peters out. When Tara Reid is the only recognizable name in a cast and is listed as a movie's star, watch out. Wait until you see her tearful scene after one of the group is slain. It's strictly from hunger. I will say the guy in the tank looks pretty scary. Shot on the cheap in Romania.

This movie started out like many other movies in this genre do; a group of students go to a big, creepy haunted place for some type of experiment, and wind up crossing paths with a deranged psychopath who resides there. However, there are some plot twists and surprises thrown in as the film develops, and it dosen't drag out because there is plenty of action and suspense. Tara Reid fits the role well. The film works because the cast is balanced, attractive, and believe it or not, convincing enough that this film kept me guessing throughout. Without a doubt, Reid's finest performance. If you like films that are not big-budget Hollywood predictable fare, than you will enjoy this gem of a horror flick. If you are a Reid fan, you will like it as well. If you don't like movies like "Saw" and "The Haunting" than this may not be for you. Entertaining, scary fun with a twist at the end - can't beat that.

Tara Reid is not exactly a favorite of mine, so my expectations going in were quite low. Having said that, compared to her terrible miscasting as a scientist in the dreadful Alone In The Dark, she did okay. Her emotional scenes, seemed to be a little uneven, and over the top. As far as the gore goes, it's pretty dry, and mostly off camera, with the exception of a few scenes. I thought the rest of the cast did a decent job, and Mihai Stanescu in particular did an admirable job as The Sleeper. All in all it had some moderate suspense, and creepiness going for it. Stanescu was the best part, and with a little more gore, and a stronger female lead, this could have been much more. Not to be confused with The William Shatner film Incubus.

INCUBUS is an entirely sub-standard horror film set in some kind of abandoned scientific research institute deep in the woods (which still has electricity, of course). Into this setting stumble a group of unsuspecting twentysomething characters who proceed to get themselves bumped off by an evil presence lurking within the building. It's hardly the sort of thing to set the world on fire, is it?

Inevitably these days, INCUBUS turns out to be an almost unwatchable film. Everything about it is horrible: the direction, which tries to be edgy, and the script, which is just devoid of imagination or intellect. For most of the time I was laughing at the ridiculous dialogue, such as when characters blurt out "I'm down here!" and the reply comes "Are you down there?". Did anyone even edit or proofread it?

There are plentiful errors in the storyline, too, such as characters who randomly disappear only to suddenly show up later, and realism is virtually nil. The acting is quite poor, particularly from the single-expressioned Tara Reid, although I have to admit that Akemnji Ndifernyan does his best with the role he's given and at least he doesn't die first. The gore effects are cheap and schlocky and there's zero here to distinguish it from all the rest of the decade's trash, so it's a film destined for the bin and nowhere else.