FRESNO
-- A startling American Art-film and horror classic has been uncovered after being
locked away for 35 years in a private collector's storage vault.
The film was thought to be lost until just recently when
producer Tony Taylor found the only surviving copy in France and managed to get
the movie re-released on video for home screening.
Originally released in 1965 and featuring a pre-Star Trek William
Shatner, Incubus is a strange and surreal trip into the paranormal with
its dialogue spoken entirely in the artificial language of Esperanto.
Filmed in the Big Sur country of Northern California,
director Leslie Stevens has created an imaginary, wind-swept place called Nomen
Tuum, where beautiful demons stalk the earth in search of pure souls in order
to destroy them. Incubus is daring, experimental and, according to the director,
more indebted to the Japanese cinema rather than to Ingmar Bergman, whose mystical
works it resembles. More...
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