Nothing wrong with elevated horror but sometimes it's so elevated you don't have the required sex, suspense, violence. This is a version of Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars. It takes too long to get going - should have started with the birth, Stephanie Zimablist is too nice and polite in a role that needs someone exotic and strange. Charlton Heston is fine. Susannah York isn't bad just feels under-utilised.
The story hints at themes not developed - incest, death, so on. I can see why Orion asked for it to be recut. The writers Chris Bryant and Allan Scott adapted Don't Look Now and what this needed was Nic Roeg not Mike Newell at the start of his career.
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