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The Tomb
Film poster
Directed byMichael Staininger
Written byJeff Most
Based on"Ligeia"
by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced byDonald P. Borchers
Jeff Most
StarringWes Bentley
Sofya Skya
Kaitlin Doubleday
Michael Madsen
Eric Roberts
CinematographyJamie Thompson
Edited byDanny Saphire
Music byPatrick Cassidy
Production
companies
Most Films
Saphire-Borchers
Aberto Entertainment
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release date
  • November 13, 2009 (2009-11-13) (St. Louis)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Tomb, also known as Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia, is a 2009 horror film directed by Michael Staininger and starring Wes Bentley, Sofya Skya, Kaitlin Doubleday, Michael Madsen, and Eric Roberts. It is based on the short story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe.[1]

Plot

Jonathan Merrick, a best-seller author, falls in love with a fascinating girl named Ligeia. But she keeps a deadly secret, she is ill and she needs to steal souls to survive. In her quest for immortality she will do anything to keep death away. Jonathan, haunted by her beauty, breaks up with his girlfriend Rowena. Ligeia and Merrick take a house on the shores of the Black Sea and he enters into a dark and hopeless world.[2]

Cast

Release

The film premiered at the 2009 St. Louis International Film Festival.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ profilbaru.com. "The Tomb (2009 film) - Profilbaru.Com". profilbaru.com. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  2. ^ The Tomb (2009) - IMDb, retrieved 2023-05-02
  3. ^ https://cinemastlouis.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/SLIFF_program_2009.pdf[bare URL PDF]

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