Mausoleum

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* Sexual Situations * Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1983/Color/96 Min./ Embassy Home Entertainment Motion Picture Marketing & Western International Pictures &  /Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.......Michael Dugan</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Robert Barich & Robert Madero</B></div> <div> <B>Music..........Jamie Mendoza-Nava</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.......Robert Barich & Robert Madero</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography..</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.......Jerry Zimmerman & Michael Franzese</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects Makeup by John Buechler</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Oliver Farrell.....Marjoe Gortner  (Hellhole)</B></div> <div> <B>Susan Ferrell......Bobbee Bresee</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Simon Andrews..Norman Burton</B></div> <div> <B>Elsie..............La Wanda Page</B></div> <div> <B>Ben the Gardener...Maurice Sherbanee</B></div> <div> <B>Aunt Cora..........Laura Hippe</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Roni Logan.....Sheri Mann</B></div> <div> <B>Young Susan........Julie Christie Murray</B></div> <div> <B>Delivery Boy.......Chu Chu Malave</B></div> <div> <B>Gallery Owner......Ron Cannon</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Look, this film was made in 1983. Funny black maids from the step and fetch it school just don't cut it. The special effects are a very mixed bag, often consisting of no more than tedious smoke bombs. We sometimes wonder why people even try hypnosis scenes. People in horror movies go under as easily as Shemp. The demon look is, however, adequate. The hypnotized Susan-demon is legitimately scary, and Susan's transformation into a gore crazed succubus is quite effective. Unfortunately, the acting here is generally quite spotty, the main offender on this score being Norman Burton as Dr. Andrews--a minimum wager. The banshee screams toward the end are pretty scary. However, if anyone can explain the very end of the film to us, we'd be much obliged. What is that gardener laughing about? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Aunt Cora can't get little Susan to leave her mother's grave. She has to live with aunt Cora until she's old enough to inherit her mother's estate. Stricken with grief the little girl runs through the cemetery and has a vision while at a mausoleum. We later learn that no first-born woman of the Nomed family may enter the mausoleum without possession, a curse that dates back generations. As a grown-up living in the inherited estate Cora sees that Susan (now 30) exhibits the same behavior her mother did before her death twenty years before. Susan is followed by tragic events. A drunk who bothers her and her husband burns up in his car before their eyes. Has the family curse struck  Susan as it did her mother? Apparently. She seduces the gardener, but there's a price--she rips him apart. Next it's Cora's turn, her nemesis of so many years. Oliver gets a glimpse of Susan as the demon in the rocking chair and calls Dr. Simon, Susan's psychologist and tells him of Susan's "changes". He doesn't know the half of it. Susan keeps her appointment with the doctor where he tries to discover her problem through hypnosis, which brings him face to face with a demon. A colleague, Dr. Logan correctly diagnoses demon possession and Dr. Simon reluctantly agrees to deal with the case as a possession. Time is running out as Susan falls more and more into the grip of the demon, devouring trades people to pass the time, and only Dr. Simon can save her--that is if she doesn't destroy him first.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>