Synopsis
Crucified, blinded and buried... Now she's back!
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
Directed by Jim Wynorski
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
Возвращение Сатаны, Morella kísértése, Το Στοίχειωμα Της Μορέλα, El hechizo de Morella, 邪灵复活, Morella: O Espírito Satânico, 邪靈復活
"She gave you life. And now you will share your life with her! Can't you feel it, Lenora? Her blood in your veins, her soul in your body! Her thoughts in your mind!"
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Delicious witchcraft and blasphemy! Roger Corman returns to the world of Edgar Allan Poe, this time producing for director Jim Wynorski in a brisk 80-minute interpretation of Poe’s "Morella" short story. This gem treats us to a real power trio, showcasing Nicole Eggert as both the late (then resurrected) titular temptress and her possessed teenage daughter Lenora, the esteemed David McCallum as Lenora's blind father Gideon, and then the MVP, Lana Clarkson as the villainous governess Coel Devereaux.…
Jim Wynorski's secret ingredient for an effective Edgar Allan Poe adaptation is boobs, lots of boobs.
Like sensuously slinking into a sleazy late-night cable blood jacuzzi. A Wynorski-Corman-Poe trifecta, so its all tits, blood and bargain-bin gothic thrills. True it’s kinda languorous at times but that only deepens the mood, letting you drift through its gauzy atmosphere of cozy Victorian interiors, candlelit crypts, and steamy baths of blood.
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23. Watch any horror movie with "haunting" appearing in the title.
Jim Wynorski tackles Edgar Allan Poe in this atmospheric gothic tale and by atmospheric I mean lots of nudity. The beginning of this flick sets up the rest of the movie as a witch is being burned. I guess she could float and they weren't sure if she was a duck or a witch but either way she had to burn. Years later the spirit of the burned witch wants to make a comeback but things aren't as easy as one would expect.
The effects in this movie are better than they have any right to be. It looks like Wynorski was…
Wenn Hexen hexen und sich nackig machen, kommt die Watchparty in Wallung. Zusammen mit glimmer und Sammlung…
Viel kann ich einige Tage nach der Sichtung nicht mehr über dieses Hexendrama mit Titten zu Protokoll geben.
Über den Plot will ich sowieso gar nicht zu viel reden, der ist relativ rudimentär. Wer auf solche Filme steht wird bedient. Grosse Erwartungen sollten dennoch nicht formuliert werden. Horrorfeeling kommt selbstredend keines auf. Dafür gehen die Kostüme in Ordnung. Auch der Blutanteil lässt sich sehen. Einige der Damen, die sich regelmäßig nackig machen, sind sehr hübsch.
Nicole Eggers ist hier zweifellos das Highlight und darf teilweise in ihrer Doppelrolle auch brillieren. Leider zeigt sie sich nur mit Hilfe von Bodydoubles nackig. David McCallum (langjähriger…
The Jim Wynorski guarantee of cleavage every five minutes and heaving exposure every ten maybe wasn't the best approach. In a quest for immortality, a witch's corpse possesses her own daughter to gather blood from slain buxom lasses. Producer Roger Corman loosely revisits his Poe/Price cycle with their rich Cinemascope elegance replaced by direct-to-video ogling. And sure, the actresses are stunning in any matter of dress, but this leaves styrofoam tombstones, bored performances, and inserts recycled from Cormans of yore. Frivolous next to what Charles Band accomplished with a few choice Romanian rentals during those same years. If interested, avoid the Blu-ray since it's missing snippets. Watched via New Concorde's DVD.
Watching immediately after Transylvania Twist had me primed for jokes and hijinks, and with one of the first lines being “...under the crimes of witchcraft, blasphemy...and murder”, which I thought was a sly dig at religion, I was bit surprised how accomplished at was at being an actual tale of evil, not really a haunting through.
➡️Masters of Schlock & Awe #5 - Jim Wynorski
The rest of the film plays like a classic horror story, and Wynorski doesn’t “tarnish” the material by trying to make it goofy. He does add a whole lot of blood-covered and water-drenched boobs though, so his magic touch isn’t completely unseen.
I say classic horror story material but it doesn’t do an awful lot with…
Forever bored, quoth the raven.
There's 2 types of Wynorski movies, both are dumb but some aren't straight faced and some ARE and this one IS and zzzzzzzzzzzz
Jim Wynorski and Roger Corman enter the 90s with a more exploitive take on Corman's classic Edgar Allan Poe movies.
This means more boobs, more blood and also boobs covered in blood.
There are also a few charming practical effects like Morella's skeleton bleeding and screaming with glowing eyes. Besides being more straight and serious in tone, this still feels very much like a classic Wynorski film in some of the best ways. It's entertaining for the most part and the cast is actually pretty good. We have David McCallum in the role Vincent Price would have played in the 60s and Nicole Eggert als Morella and also her teenage daughter Lenora. We also have Lana Clarkson and Deborah Dutch…
Im Spukhaus von Graf Porno gefangen zusammen mit glimmer und Oliver
Auf den war ich ja schon lange scharf, weil der noch zu der Zeit gehört, als unser Gottkönig Jim Wynorski noch die Gaudis rausgehauen hat und richtig Roger-Corman-Kohle hatte. Praktisch also, dass der Glimmer den jetzt seiner Auswahl hatte.
In der Kolonialzeit wird die Hexe Morella hingerichtet, während Ehemann und Baby zuschauen. Jahre später ist die Tochter erwachsen und soll ein Erbe antreten. Genau da will Morella wieder zurück, indem sie sich den Körper der Tochter schnappt.
Darstellerisch enttäuscht der Jim mal wieder überhaupt nicht und karrt alles ran, womit er später noch ordentliches Tittenkino gedreht hat. Allen voran Nicole Eggert, Lana Clarkson, Maria Ford und Gail Harris sind…
More like the kinda boring lousy score drenched wannabe Countess Bathory stylee narrated tales of unsheathed globules of female chest meat.
Damn you Six Feet Under for stealing the movie poster for your first album cover and burning it forever into my need to see list!
A respectable, real movie by Wynorski? A rare breed indeed. This plays out like a regular Victorian drama, horse and corset-style, but also with a few glowy eye corpses and naked succubi thrown in. I haven't read the Poe story, but I wouldn't be shocked to find out it's a faithful adaption. A welcome and wholesome surprise.