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The Tomb

  • 3.7 /10

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Plot

Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy.

Cast

Wes Bentley as Jonathan
Wes Bentley

as Jonathan

Kaitlin Doubleday as Rowena
Sofya Skya as Ligeia Romanova
Sofya Skya

as Ligeia Romanova

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Len Burris
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

as Len Burris

Mackenzie Rosman as Loreli
Mackenzie Rosman

as Loreli

Joel Lewis as Eddie
Joel Lewis

as Eddie

Christa Campbell as Mrs. Burris
Christa Campbell

as Mrs. Burris

Michael Madsen as George
Michael Madsen

as George

Eric Roberts as Vaslev
Eric Roberts

as Vaslev

Lydia Hull as Bartender
Lydia Hull

as Bartender

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • November 5, 2009

Production Companies

  • Jeff Most Productions

  • Lamplight Films

  • Poe Vision

  • Yalta Film Studio

Production Countries

  • Ukraine

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $8,800,000.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.48 hrs

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**_Eerie cinematic style and beauty with Wes Bentley_** An engaged professor at Washington University in eastern Missouri (Bentley) finds himself attracted to a mysterious woman of dark beauty (Sofya Skya) as the shadowy events wind up near the Black Sea. “The Tomb” (2009), also known as “Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia,” is loosely based on Poe’s macabre short story from 1838. It transfers the…