Incubus (2006)

A bunch of 20 somethings are going camping in the Bitteroot Mountains, Montana. However their car overturns (not shown--this is VERY low budget). They all try to get to the road but come upon a huge concrete structure. They get in to get help...but find dead bloody bodies and something stalking them...The reviews for this have ranged from some saying this is one of the worst movies ever made to others who love it. I'm somewhere in the middle. It's not good but it's hardly the worst horror movie ever. Let's deal with the bad things first. For starters--the title is wrong. An incubus is a demon that comes to you in your nightmares. That's NOT what this is about. SPOILER!!!! It's about a madman who uses his thoughts to take over your body (when you fall asleep) and force you to kill. That's about possession--not a demon. END SPOILER!!! The cast has no personalities and are pretty interchangeable. The plot is pretty run of the mill too with that stupid "it's not over" ending. On the plus side it's pretty well-made, the acting actually isn't bad (top billed Tara Reid is good), the cast are all attractive (especially Russell Carter as Josh) and there's some explicit bloody gore. For the record there's no nudity in this one at all.So--all in all--a pretty good horror film with some decent gore and a capable cast. I was never bored which isn't something I can't say for most recent horror films. I give it a 6.

"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.

A wreck leaves a group of adults, led by Tara Reid, stranded in the middle of the Montana Mountains. They seek shelter from the cold and find a seemingly abandoned scientific installation, housing something sinister within.The film opens with one lab-coated scientist chasing another female lab-coated scientist, which ends in both killing each other. The young cast finds the dead scientists and attempt to find any way out as quickly as possible. Their entry into the place, led down by a rope, snaps leaving them stuck inside..they must find a way out immediately because an experiment those scientists were working on, locked into a bullet-proof cell holds a comatose killer(..notorious for the murder of his kin) with feeding tubes inserted into his body keeping him alive. It seems that this killer has the ability to invade the dreams of those who sleep, taking possession of their bodies and minds operating them at will. He was the cause of those scientists turning on each other, behind a hidden scientist who murders one of them with a screwdriver when they attempted to find the generator which would keep the lights burning inside the installation, and soon invades members of the group when they fall asleep. Reid and company hope to find a way of stopping him, attempting to use his method of travel against him long enough to somehow escape the installation or else. But, the killer is far more powerful than they realize..To be honest, the methods of the killer are fleetingly explained in the film, mostly through the conjecture of Reid's character Jay, who read through some appropriately detailed papers and videotapes left by the scientists. Your liking this movie will solely depend on if you buy the premise of the killer's invasion abilities. Reid as your lead ought to dissuade more cautious viewers who might not wish to waste their time on this film. There's some graphic violence(the killer bites his own tongue out as a child in a flashback sequence, committing the same act through one of the characters we follow in the film he invades;the fate of Jay's brother, who is badly wounded by the attack of the scientist, with the use of a screwdriver;accidental suffocation with a plastic bag over the face of one of the remaining characters when an attempt to trap the killer while inside the body of another backfires;the unfortunate murder of one of the group believed to be still possessed by use of a wrench)and the darkened halls of the installation where a killer could be lurking around any corner provides some eerie moments. But, I couldn't really find much to recommend truthfully, unless you are a Tara Reid fan..she's certainly had better days, although her fake breasts jiggle up and down throughout her constant running from evil in pursuit. I found her dialogue, concerning the idea of leaving your body when you sleep, rather funny. The final ten or so minutes I found rather ridiculous(..well, I found the whole premise rather ridiculous, but getting back to my point..)as the killer somehow, despite what one remaining character along with Jay does to him, roams free, talking awfully well for someone without a tongue, as he easily snaps a neck like Chuck Norris.This flick is basically characters is search of an exit while being picked off by a killer that has a unique method of terror.

I usually like most horror films, even if they are bad, but it's usually because there is some redeeming value to it. Genuine scares, good plot line, etc.Sad to say, Incubus has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING valuable about it.So the film starts with some odd fight between two scientists in some run-down bunker. I suppose this is intended to "grab" the viewer and make them wonder what's going on. Not really.Then we come to our brave crew of young adults who will of course stumble upon some great horror. They suffer a car accident (note, you don't actually see the accident, just the car flipped over on it's side and a guardrail all twisted up.) Instantly you find that the dialog is terrible and the acting isn't much better.So our brave party trek off across Montana to find the nearest town or something and decide to cut through some woods when they stumble upon some mysterious compound complete with automatic lights but for some reason the fence is quite easily kicked-in. Now at this point in the film, you ask yourself why these people are so intent on getting inside the building, I guess it was supposed to be really cold outside and they needed shelter...despite the fact that it looked like it was the middle of summer and they all had camping equipment. Anyway, they climb up onto the roof and repel down a massive air shaft...first they send down Tara Reid...all alone and let her wander around while the others just stand around. Then they all decide to go down and look for Tara Reid except for one girl with a foreign accent who decides to leave and not tell anyone...Well our foolish band of heroes explore their prison after the rope gets cut on the air shaft and they find bodies and most surprisingly, a guy in a coma-state with all sorts of wires attached to him.Tara Reid suddenly because very interested in this guy for some reason, even after her brother gets killed by the last of the deranged scientists. Fast forward a bit, the scientist kills himself and one of the guys is now deranged and he attacks them. Tara, on her brief examination of the data figures out that they are conducting experiments on this guy and that he's actually a killer who was supposed to be executed. Tara then talks about how the government (CIA, NSA, DIA, etc) were all conducting experiments but those were shut down in 1995 but for some reason this one continued...deep in the Montana woods where lost campers could stumble upon a super-secret operation....hmmmSo anyway, Tara figures out that the serial killer is getting into people's bodies when they sleep and this is where the movie gets its name. Sadly, an Incubus did not this and instead would have sex with women to create more incubi. But I guess it sounded cool and they needed something to make people want to watch this film. The group then decides to somehow trap the killer by having one of them fall asleep. Idiots. Obviously the person who falls asleep then tries to kill them and they are forced to kill her. Hilarious...what did they think was going to happen.At this point, you're wondering why they don't just kill the serial killer and the one guy tries, though he only pulls out some tubes...rather than simply stab him or break his neck or something. And we all know what happens next, he comes alive and with only Tara Reid left, there's a chase scene and she outsmarts him and then kills him by making him fall down the air shaft and then she strangles him. Tara then falls asleep and has a dream of the killer pleasuring her and then eating her, ha ha. She wakes up to find police and she is taken outside. We find that the girl who left in the beginning apparently found the police and of course the last scene, we see Tara Reid with the killer eyes....The film leaves you with a profound sense of...regret. Bad acting, horrible dialog, a plot line that makes no sense and so many holes that it's almost like this was written by a budding drama student in about an hour. Not even Tara Reid's ultra-tight shirt can save this film. Normally, for mediocre horror films, I would tell you to go ahead and rent it on netflix or something...no, save your time.