Leslie Stevens (writer)
November 1966 (France) more
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil. full summary | add synopsis
Ingmar Bergman Meets `The Outer Limits' more (57 total)
| William Shatner | ... | Marc | |
| Allyson Ames | ... | Kia | |
| Eloise Hardt | ... | Amael | |
| Robert Fortier | ... | Olin | |
| Ann Atmar | ... | Arndis | |
| Milos Milos | ... | Incubus | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jay Ashworth | ... | Monk (uncredited) | |
| Forrest T. Butler | ... | Monk (uncredited) | |
| Paolo Cossa | ... | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Ted Mossman | ... | Monk (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Leslie Stevens | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Leslie Stevens | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Elaine Michea | .... | associate producer | |
| Anthony M. Taylor | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Dominic Frontiere | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Conrad L. Hall | |||
| William A. Fraker | (uncredited) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Richard K. Brockway | (as Richard Brockway) | ||
Costume Design by | |||
| Forrest T. Butler | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Fred B. Phillips | .... | makeup artist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Maurice Vaccarino | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Ted Mossman | .... | property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Jay Ashworth | .... | location sound | |
| Arthur Cornell | .... | sound editor (as Arthur J. Cornall) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Jordan Cronenweth | .... | assistant camera | |
| Norman C. McClay | .... | electrician | |
| Charles Rosher Jr. | .... | assistant camera (as Charles Rosher) | |
| Charles Rosher Jr. | .... | camera operator | |
| William A. Fraker | .... | camera operator (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| John Caper Jr. | .... | music editor | |
| Dominic Frontiere | .... | conductor | |
Transportation Department | |||
| Richard Margrave | .... | transportation | |
Other crew | |||
| Gary Adelman | .... | restoration consultant | |
| Richard S. Brummer | .... | restoration consultant | |
| Mary Chaffee | .... | continuity | |
| Wayne Fitzgerald | .... | title designer: main titles | |
| Mona Skager | .... | assistant: Mr. Stevens | |
Incubus (France) [fr]
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78 min
1.85 : 1 more
Just one year after this film came out, as its prints were being destroyed, William Shatner was cast in "Star Trek" (1966), cinematographer Conrad L. Hall got his first Academy Award nomination, actor Milos Milos murdered the estranged wife of Mickey Rooney and then killed himself, and actress Ann Atmar committed suicide. more
Factual errors: The eclipse proceeds too fast, holds too long at totality, then ends too fast. It becomes way too dark during totality. more
Amael:
He has faced death, Kia.
Kia:
They all face death, all of them.
Amael:
He was unafraid!
Kia:
Is that so pure and noble? The beasts in the fields have courage. The smallest bird will beat its wings and claw a weasel in its nest.
Amael:
But his courage went beyond self-preservation.
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It's tempting to jokingly call this the best William Shatner movie in Esperanto I've ever seen, but it deserves better than that - it's a delightfully weird low-budget horror film that might best be described as "Ingmar Bergman Meets `The Outer Limits.'" The reference to the 60s TV series is apt, since several of the creative forces from that show were behind this film: writer-director Leslie Stevens; future Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, and composer Dominic Frontiere (although I suspect they simply borrowed his "Outer Limits" themes to score this film). In fact, "Incubus" looks, sounds and feels so much like an episode of the "The Outer Limits," there were times I half-expected it to fade to commercial; a flash of nudity reminds us this isn't a TV show.
In "Incubus," a seductive female demon - a succubus - named Kia becomes bored with luring morally corrupt men to their eternal doom and sets her sights on a virtuous soldier named Marc, played by a pre-"Star Trek" Shatner (who guest-starred in an "Outer Limits" episode titled "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"). The bucolic out-of-time setting reminds me of the medieval Sweden of Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," and Hall's black & white cinematography is starkly beautiful. The Esperanto dialogue lends an exotic flavor with its vaguely recognizable European word roots. It also dresses up dialogue that might have been too over-the-top in English (in his DVD commentary, Shatner can't help chuckling when Kia declares, "There are no heroes burning in the fires of Hell!"). I'm reminded of the old joke that a movie seems more "artistic" if it's in a foreign language with subtitles - I guess Esperanto, originally intended to be a universal language, effectively makes "Incubus" a "foreign film" to just about everyone.
Shatner, as the young, handsome, dashing hero, is unmistakably Shatner, even in Esperanto. Allyson Ames is frostily beautiful as the evil Kia, while Ann Atmar is sweetly vulnerable as Marc's sister, Arndis.
I don't mean to over-praise "Incubus." It's a very well done little film, comparable to the original "Carnival of Souls" - if you don't expect too much, you may be pleasantly surprised at how much there is. It's definitely worth a look.