Bickering couple Lisa (Lana Wood, sister of Natalie) and Carl (Don Galloway) move to an isolated beach house in an attempt to save their marriage. This doesn't work and lonely Lisa soon finds herself attracting a horny spirit (Kabir Bedi) that frequently seduces her and tries to possess the couple's daughter Michelle (Sherry Scott). Psychic best friend Ann-Marie (Britt Ekland) senses something is wrong and tries to stop it. This reminds me of the similar MAUSOLEUM but without the cool green lighting and effects. There isn't really much to this standard horror from director James Polakof as the first hour consists mostly of Lisa moaning and groaning as the General Zod looking spirit gives her the sexy eyes. There is a rather nice decapitation in here, but I had to deduct cool points since no one questions why there is a guillotine in the basement of their new home. The beach location is nice though and offers some early 80s location eye-porn. John Carradine has 4 minute bit as a priest who mutters some nonsense about "the devil attacking us when we are at our weakest."
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P3n-E-W1s321 April 2022Greetings And Salutations, and welcome to my review of Dark Eyes; before launching into my critique, here's a breakdown of my ratings:
Story - 0.75 Direction - 0.75 Pace - 0.50 Acting - 1.00 Enjoyment - 0.75
TOTAL - 3.75 out of 10
Oh dear me, this film doesn't have a lot going for it so I'll try to keep it short - if not sweet.
Evidently, being lonely and depressed opens you up to occult experiences. That means at least half the world's population must have had a demonic visitation. Mine must be way overdue, and if dear ol' Luci's reading this, please make mine blonde and shapely, cheers you ol' devil you.
The story is the first problem with the film. It starts as your run-of-the-mill sexual haunting, which The Entity accomplished much better. Though, by the end, it's transformed into a twisted love story. Unfortunately, the writers didn't have the skill to complete the conversion believably or smoothly. In all honesty, the story is as jagged as a werewolf's fangs. Every element from the dysfunctional family and their separate emotions to their over-sharing friends to the demonic love needed better explanation and structure. Due to it being a mess, it becomes implausible, which makes it tedious.
Regrettably, the direction is as sloppy. The director opts for a point and shoot approach with a single meandering tempo. So added to the tedium of the tale comes the lethargy of the filmmaking. The special effects are not special enough - only the decapitation is notable, and it's not that great either. Though, the worst is the double exposure. I'm still not sure what the globular shape represented - but what is important is that I didn't and still don't care.
I felt sorry for Britt Ekland and Don Galloway: Their talent is wasted in the film. At least Galloway gave his all, and I hope he had fun doing it - he is, by and far, the best of the bunch. Ekland's name was top of the bill to get the bums on seats. I think she realised this because her performance wasn't the best. As for the leads, well, they were so wooden the writers should have changed the family name to the Redwoods.
If you've not guessed it yet, I do not recommend Dark Eyes, or any other names it hides under, for your viewing pleasure. I don't know you, and I'm not giving you a reason to hunt me down, so steer well clear of this piccy.
Please feel free to visit my Absolute Horror list to see where I ranked Dark Eyes, or better yet, to find something more enjoyable to watch.
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ronevickers8 July 2008Anyone who had not seen this film, but had heard about its various titles, may expect something interesting and worthwhile. The reality is that this is a turgid, slow moving, load of nonsense! First of all, the soundtrack is quite abysmal, and the background sounds tend to drown out the dialogue, which is no great shakes anyway. The editing is quite appalling, and the film lurches from scene to scene without any great pattern to it. The ending is quite ludicrous, although after sitting through 90 minutes of dross, it is a welcome relief to the viewer. In all in, a sad effort which only merits two points courtesy of the lead, Lana Wood!!
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Michael_Elliott9 October 2017Satan's Mistress (1982)
** (out of 4)
Lisa (Lana Wood) is a bored housewife who has become sexually unsatisfied in her relationship. Before long she begins to have dreams of a sexual encounter with a mysterious man who might be much more sinister than she realizes.
SATAN'S MISTRESS has been released under a number of titles including DEMON SEED, DEMON RAGE, FURY OF THE SUCCUBUS and DARK EYES. No matter what you want to call it, this here is pretty much a show for fans of Wood. If you were disappointed that she didn't pop out of her suit in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER then you'll be happy to know that she's fully nude throughout this picture. Obviously with the plot and all the sex and nudity, this here is pretty much a sleazy horror picture and on that level it works.
We've seen countless possession movies but I will give this one credit in that it at least tries to be good. I say that because a lot of low-budget horror movies know there will be an audience out there for them so they can deliver crap if they want to and usually fans will except it. This film really wants to try and scare the viewer by delivering some psychological elements with the story. The film never wants us to know if the lead character is crazy or if she's normal. It's never clear if she's really having this sexual relationship or if it's all in her head. Is this man Satan himself or some sort of ghost?
Director James Polakof doesn't really succeed in what he tried for but, again, I give him credit for trying. The film is never suspenseful and it's also fair to say that the movie doesn't quite grab you like it should. What makes the film work is the fact that it is rather sleazy with there being several sex scenes and of course there's Wood willing to take it all off. There's full frontal nudity throughout the film and for the most part I thought she delivered a fine performance. Britt Ekland plays her psychic friend and John Carradine shows up as a Priest.
SATAN'S MISTRESS is a mildly entertaining film that at least tried to be something more than a low-budget exploitation movie. Again, I give it credit for at least trying but even in its failure it still remains an entertaining picture for what it is. -
drew-15510 February 2013When I'm hungry after cutting down a few hundred redwoods, I often enjoy a large stack of flapjack's. Generally I'll take a large one, lay a sausage patty on top, then put a chocolate chip on top of that. ZOMG! I've just described Lana Wood's tittays! Seriously though, this movie is not just for the woodsmen. It's for anyone who loves slappy flappy floppy sloppy mams, terrible sound work, and long romantic walks on the beach. Lana Wood longs for a "tall dark man" named Calgon® to take her away. She sees him in her shower. She feels him on top of her manhandling her flapjacks. She spends hours in the hot tub waiting for her man. This movie never ends. It goes on and on until you turn it off, or the world ends. That's totally OK with me.
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Gator6625 January 2007I saw this at a drive-in (shock!), but it was called "Fury of the Succubus". Its only real redeeming value, to me, is nostalgic: it's among the last of the drive-in second features ever put into wide release. From the late 40s, until they were effectively replaced by the direct to video market in the early 80s, countless of these gems at once horrified and amused the teenage clientèle after the families had pulled out of the lot to get the kiddies to bed. This was also the perfect example of the movies you stayed to NOT watch when you were there on a date. If not for "films" like this, a lot of us guys would have graduated high school as virgins!
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spiritof6730 October 2020This movie is a contemporary of (and ripoff of) The Entity. The differences are significant though: one movie had major actors, a decent budget, a plot you can follow and award-nominated actors. Then there's this one.
I can't figure out why so many "reviewers" here look at this as anything but what it was, which is my first sentence followed by "It's a B movie.". As a B movie, it's not bad. It has just enough script to almost cover its length, a couple of more-or-less recognizable actors in the cast and a reputation for being Lana Wood's corporeal showcase. She makes the most of it. Lana's body was quite spectacular and you can see it here whenever the photography permits. For Entity fans, I will say that Lana did not use a body double, spfx dummy or anything else.
And to those young kids who reviewed this film and relished using the word "floppy", please know that not all of us are looking for (1) obvious implants or (2) women who are built like 15-year-old boys. Big natural breasts move, kids.
I'd love to have had both movies (Entity and Dark Eyes) on the same bill at a drive-in.
As a movie, it's no Citizen Kane. But neither was Humanoids From The Deep .I like them both. They're B movies. -
plex7 June 2015Hey, I have the guts to be honest, the only reason I watched this was because I remembered " that chick from the Bond flick who's boobs came close to falling out of her top leaning over at the craps table!" Well that film was Diamonds Are Forever, and her character was Plenty O'Toole who later gets tossed out of a hi-rise hotel window by mobsters and in real life she's the bubbly, vivacious, curvy and beautiful Lana Wood. Apparently her 15-minutes was not enough for her because we fast forward a full decade and she's back, this time in the low-budget Satan's Mistress ( although the version I was streaming titled it "Demon Rage"). Over 5 minutes of the film goes by before the opening credits begin when I am greeted with the production company titled: " BJ Creations." This, along with the screen-caps of Lana Woods breasts, Lana's major nip-slips in the intro, compelled me to believe I was in for an enjoyable evening of typical gratuitous low-budget boobies, and general sleaziness. However the top billing went to Britt Ekland, another Bond co-star ( as agent Goodnight in "The Man With the Golden Gun") and Kabir Bedi yet another Bond co-star ( as Gobinda in "Octopussy") Hmm, 3 actors, 3 different Bond film. Whats going on here, especially after all of this time? Well Britt is hardly in the film at all, but of these 3 ex-Bond characters, she's the most-known, so I guess they needed her name for some street-cache. The film is irretrievably stupid, based on some premise ( which the producers try to sell as fact in the opening credits) that supernatural powers commonly cause people's loneliness. Buy hey, again, to be honest, I already outlined my "2-reasons" for wasting my time. We get a few brief topless scenes of Wood who has remarkable areola on her DD's ( just guessing cup size), 2 of which are her on her back, where she's aged just enough for them to start sagging and be headed towards her arm pits. Needless to say, I was disappointed and hardly titillated at all.....
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TokyoGyaru10 January 2021It's funny how they just gloss over how verbally abusive and aggressive the main character's husband is, as though his abusiveness and neglect aren't what's negatively affecting the relationship. This is a couple that I don't want things to work out for because it's established early on that he "gets" that way whenever he's focused on his work, meaning he'll keep ignoring her, getting angry when she gently tries to get his attention, and calling her curse words. THEN he gets angry when she rightfully separates herself and wants to focus on painting, slamming what she's working on to the floor. He also rejects her sexual advances, but when he comes home and hears her in the throes of passion "alone," he gets jealous. Like, wow, he can be neglectful, abusive, but she'd better not dare respond to it, even passively. He's AWFUL! But the movie treats it like SHE'S the problem! I just kept thinking it's not good for her daughter to grow up seeing that her mother endured that treatment as normal because it often does affect a child's adult choices.
Also, they start the story out already in the house, focusing on the nonsensical family drama and just making vague references to the house being evil or whatever. It's an awful setup. I think they were more focused on getting the wife's kit off and having her in bed, fake moaning with a distressed look on her face. The other characters are used weirdly, with the husband of the main character's best friend coming across as a creep, as he keeps making lustful comments about the main character and burying the attractiveness of his own pretty wife right to her face. The daughter is used in what should be a significant way, but the execution is so poor that she still comes across as a loose end.
Conclusion: Poorly written and paced, bland, unlikable characters, plays like a TV movie with nudity; 1 star.
S/N: Also, the misogynistic comments about her breasts in these reviews are far worse than the movie! -
I was watching Amazon Prime the other night and thought I was watching Demon Seed with Julie Christie. Nope. I was really watching this film. I thought with the end of the rental era that box art would never confuse me again! I was wrong!
Lana (Lana Wood, elder sister of Natalie, who is better known as Plenty O'Toole from Diamonds Are Forever) is in a loveless marriage with Carl (Don Galloway, Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on TV's Ironside). He treats her like absolute crap, as most 70's husbands tend to do in occult movies.
So she does what you or I would do: she starts doing Satan.
This movie is basically an excuse to get Lana Wood naked and having sex with an invisible demon. That demon eventually becomes a man played by Kabir Bedi, Gobinda from another James Bond movie, Octopussy.
Britt Ecklund from Asylum and The Wicker Man also shows up as the psychic friend of Lana, Ann-Marie. She's barely in it, looks great and gets top billing.
Later in the film, Anne-Marie introduces Lana's husband to the priest that comes to talk to her psychic group -- it was the late 70's/early 80's and again, these things happened -- and I was thinking, man, this priest role is perfect for Joh Carradine. At that very moment, the priest turns to the camera to reveal good old skinny Dracula himself!
Also known as Dark Rage, Demon Eyes, Fury of the Succubus and Incubus, this movie is pretty much The Entity if the sex was consensual. And enjoyed. And more graphic. And happened more often.
I'm basically telling you that if you love movies about possession and demons having sex with attractive former Bond girls, this is pretty much the movie for you.
Writer/director brought over several folks from this movie to make Swim Team, which also has original Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon Buster Crabbe in it. So there's that. And he also did The Vals, a Valley Girl rip-off with Chuck Connors, Sonny Bonny, John Carradine and Tiffany Bolling in it. Of course, you know I'm going to track that down now. -
mazgarathag19 October 2005If only the rest of the Bond girls were as dedicated to showing their assets as Lana Wood. I'd been looking for this movie for 14 years, having only remembered just one word of one of the alternate titles. Why has it been on my mind off and on for so long? . . . the best movie nipples of all time! (or at least that's how I remember them - now I have to find a copy!) As I recall, the plot was more or less irrelevant. That's not the point of this kind of exploitation movie at all. Showing some skin in embarrassing situations and leading up to that (or those) points is all that matters. It's not that this was the best skin flick or B film, the value of the movie rides on Lana Wood and I have to respect and admire her for all she was willing to show!
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kevin-1676 September 1999The movie is not a classic horror film by any means. I saw it when I was about 11 or 12 years old and one part that really did scare me is when the main character played by Lana Wood (yes that is Natalie Wood's sister) is running on the beach at night from this creepy looking guy with a weird outfit and even weirder looking mask. She constantly dreams about him and he eventually catches up to her and rips off her clothes and has his way with her. It's been several years since I saw it.
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I saw this in a movie theater back in 1982, and I knew it sucked, but there was a few things I remembered.
The acting all around is just plain garbage, especially the actresses playing the daughter, and the psychic friend. The Psychic friends husband, was he supposed to be the stand up comic, he sucked too. The guy playing Satin says nothing.
The story/plot/dialogue is even worse than the acting. If you don't have a story, you don't have a movie. But somehow they found the funding and the energy to put this thing together. Very little explanation as to what the husband does, the daughters activities, anything about the main character. The story is a mess.
The music and cinematography was OK. Nothing special. The fx? They used the disappearing blood trick like 3 or 4 times.
Who keeps a working guillotine in their basement. An ambulance is called, and the wife/psychic jumps in the ambulance with the pieces. John Carodine shows up in the last 15 minutes for some needed explanation about loneliness and the devil.
This thing was a mess all around. Boring/Slow Crap.
My rating is an F, 1 star. Raised to 2 stars for two reasons Lana Wood, and it's not because of her acting. -
DarthBill27 June 2004Plenty O'Toole... I mean Lana Wood, younger, bustier sister of the late Natalie Wood, plays a woman in an unhappy marriage who starts having a perverse love affair with a tall, dark, handsome stranger who happens to be a minion of hell. Well, at first the Hell-bound minion rapes her, but she later decides she likes it and they start getting it on regularly. After that, some occasionally stylish touches show up in this low budget sexploitation horror film.
Film is really nothing more than excuse to show Lana's breasts (probably to distract from the sight of her horribly big hair).
What's really disturbing is that this might have actually been based on a true story.
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Uriah431 January 2019This film begins with a woman named "Lisa" (Lana Wood) running on the beach screaming as loud as she can while being pursued by an unknown assailant. Just when it appears that she cannot escape she wakes up from her bad dream. A little while later we learn that Lisa is currently having marital difficulties with her husband "Burt" (Tom Hallick) which has left her terribly lonely and sexually frustrated. A few days later she begins seeing a ghostly apparition (played by Kabir Bedi) which appears to her one night and sexually molests her. Needless to say, this disturbs her immensely and in order to make sense of it all she subsequently isolates herself from her family by moving in to a spare room in the house. Not long afterward both her husband and teenage daughter "Michelle" (Sherry Scott) also begin to experience paranormal phenomenon of a sinister nature as well. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was not a good film due to large part because of the poor cinematography, a lethargic plot and a rather shallow script. That being said, while it certainly had potential, it clearly wasn't realized and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Below average.
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mark.waltz29 October 2023That's the message of this D grade supernatural horror film, better than I expected, mainly because of the large ensemble of D list actors who give it their all. Coming off one of the great tragedies of her life (the sudden death of sister Natalie), Lana Wood poured herself into work with projects like this and the soap opera "Capitol". I can't see this aiding in her psychological state of the time as her character is going through real hell thanks to the sexual torment she faces in erotic nightmares with a handsome exotic looking man, Kabir Bedhi, the studliest middle eastern actor outside of Omar Sharif.
It's no surprise that John Carradine pops up in a cameo here as it seemed to be some running gag that he's in practically every horror or sci-fi movie ever made, or at least a large percentage of them. He has a very dramatic scene as a priest, conversing with Wood's troubled husband Don Galloway and her spiritual leader friend Britt Eklund who is trying to get to the bottom of the state Wood is in. Bedhi plays a mainly silent character, but his presence is stirring and dominant. The special effects seem cheesy in modern terms, but compared to other horror films of this era, it's a gem. -
I_Ailurophile6 October 2023The premise sounds interesting. We do get some of the horror flavors that we crave. There are some recognizable names and faces appearing here. In and of itself I like some of Roger Kellaway's original music, flavorful and ostensibly providing atmosphere and tension. The practical effects are splendid. Would that the audio weren't so terribly imbalanced and downright unprofessional, for example rendering dialogue almost imperceptible amidst the roar of hot tubs, garden hoses, or even just the wind. Would that the direction were stronger, or the acting more reliably convincing and able to find a more stable middle ground between "obnoxious" and "sleepy." Would that there weren't choices made of editing, cinematography, and the use of music cues that raised a quizzical eyebrow, and/or inspired tired sighs. Would that the dialogue weren't irksome rubbish, or that the special effects weren't outdated by at least several years and resemblant of 'Psyched by the 4D witch.' Poor lighting renders some scenes mostly or entirely indistinct and indistinguishable; the painfully uneven sound design makes Kellaway's score grating on the ears even at its best. (I had to reduce the volume by 50% compared to my usual settings lest I blow out either my speakers or my ear drums.) Male characters are almost uniformly written as at best unlikable, and I would just say "despicable"; at times one might infer a sex-positive denunciation of patriarchal values if the writing were more capable, but such bigger thoughts are clearly well beyond the modest skills of the writing team of Beverly Johnson and filmmaker James Polakof. 'Demon rage' is a rather straightforward ghost story, when all is said and done, but it's not a very good one.
There were genuinely good ideas here. Were more thought and care applied in the writing then the picture could have been an earnestly sinister delight, a tale of visitation, manipulation, and corruption by otherworldly forces. The narrative is at least complete, and broadly interesting, and in fairness, the back end seems to have benefited from more judicious application of the abilities of all involved. On the other hand, the plot is shoddy as it presents, and the tale loses cohesion and coherence in the last small stretch. And still, in every capacity, the film-making and too much of the storytelling are so deeply troubled or downright weak that the best ideas flounder, and it's hard to particularly care about any of them. I was a little excited to watch based on the cast and the core concept, but right from the start the movie begins to illustrate how tawdrily it was crafted, and at large the blasted thing is far too dull, feeble, and irritating. I see what it could have been, but nothing can survive construction this humble. For the strength 'Demon rage' demonstrates at its best, and in the latter half, I want to like it more than I do, and maybe I'm being too unkind. For the flaws and shortcomings it predominantly carries, however, and the long, hard road we have to walk to reach that greater value, I think my harshest criticism is exactly on point. It remains true that there are worse flicks one could watch, but even if you're a major fan of someone who participated in this, the sad fact remains that there are too many other features you could be watching instead that are much more worthwhile, including others that play in a similar space. Alas. -
gavcrimson5 October 2020Y'know I must have seen more films starring Lana Wood than I ever have Natalie Wood...this may say allot about my taste in films...if not women.
I mean, Lana was a Bond girl, appeared in exploitation films and posed for Playboy, to me anyway thats far cooler than being in West Side Story...evidentially the better swimmer of the two as well. -
A lonely and neglected housewife (Lana Wood) living in a deserted house on the beach takes a lover. Unfortunately, that lover turns out to be Satan! Her husband and teenage daughter are naturally upset by this turn of events and enlist a family friend (Britt Ekland) who is a spiritual medium and the latter's obnoxious husband to help them out, with disastrous results for everyone involved.
This movie kind of resembles both the mainstream film "The Entity" and the X-rated classic "Through the Looking Glass", but it is not as good as either. It is surprisingly low-budget and obscure movie considering that it features two former Bond girls--Lana "Plenty O'Toole" Wood and Britt "Holly Goodnight" Ekland. (okay, not two of the most talented former Bond girls, but still--). A cadaverous John Carradine also makes an appearance (but then he showed up pretty much every time he sensed the distant whir of a film camera). Ekland, very uncharacteristically, keeps her clothes on for the whole movie, but the busty Woods more than makes up for this as she repeatedly scromps naked with the horny demon, moaning ecstatically. The film is not bad, at least before the completely confounding ending, but there are few too many supposedly meaningful shots of the waves crashing onto the beach.
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In how many movies did a topless Lana Wood dry hump an invisible incubus for most of the running time? This is it and a good reason to watch it. It deserves a BluRay release. Britt Ekland, no slouch in the sexy department during her prime years, does not have invisible sex with an incubus or even take her clothing off. That hurt. This is the film that horror king Paul Naschy should have made in Spain with Emma Cohen and Rossana Yanni. Apparently this troublemaking incubus likes to latch onto sex starved brunettes with big bazooms and disinterested husbands so it picks Lana for nightly pump parties, becoming more material and less ghostly with each visit.
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azathothpwiggins20 July 2021DEMON RAGE is about a lonely, neglected wife named Lisa (Lana Wood), who is tormented by an equally lonely spirit. Since Lisa's -obviously blind- husband won't take care of business, the demon moves in to fill the void. When the specter visits Lisa in human form, she forgets all about her inattentive spouse!
Meant mostly as a vehicle for Ms. Wood to be unclothed as much as possible, the rest is pretty silly.
It starts out sort of like THE ENTITY, or a devilish, more adult take on THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, but devolves into a cavalcade of typically languid, simulated sex scenes.
Co-stars Britt Ekland as Lisa's conveniently psychic friend, and John Carradine in a microscopic cameo as a priest.
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And that is really the only thing I can say about this movie. Lana Wood and Britt Ekland are fine in their roles as is Don Galloway but it is just your standard demon preying on unhappy woman movie that does not offer anything else. The Entity did it better. I also had problems at times understanding what the characters were saying because there was so much background noise, but that could have just been the print I watched.
With such a good cast, it could have been better. Kabir Bedi was fine as the demon lover and I always like John Carradine, but he is hardly in it.
It's okay but it's not one I would go out of my way to see again. -
lor_20 January 2023My review was written in October 1982 after a Times Square screening.
"Satan's Mistress", lensed in 1980 under the title "Dark Eyes", is a supernatural sexploitation picture sporting name talent but cheap production values. Weak story and direction hurt its theatrical chances but plentiful nude footage of buxom lead Lana Wood should create mucho vidcassette interest. Film went through interim title change, "Demon Rage" and "Fury of the Succubus" before its present moniker.
Silly premise is that dead spirits wander in limbo awaiting their final judgment, and in this lonely state are drawn to similarly lonely living folks whom the devil uses as bait to "catch" these spirits or souls. Lisa (Lana Wood) is just such a lonely woman, pining away at her beach house while being neglected by her busy with work husband Burt (Tom Hallick).
In a cheap effect imitating Al Adamson's 1977 "Nurse SherrI" film, a purple animated squiggle enters Lisa's bedroom one night and she is raped by some invisible entity. Next time, instead of invisible the spirit is personified by a dark, romantic man clad in black (Kabir Bedi). While both husband and daughter Michelle (Sherry Scott) are disturbed by Lisa's reclusiveness, she's getting it on almost constantly with the mysterious intruder.
With corny paranormal phenomena and hallucinations accelerating, plus the appearance of a black cat familiar, friend and mystic Anne-Marie (Britt Ekland)( tries to help, and local California priest Father Stratten (John Carradine) offers his advice. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman Belline (Elsie-Anne) tries to recruit Michelle to the devil's work.
Payoff is a gory death for Anne-Marie's husband (Don Galloway), very improbably killed by a guillotine that just happens to be stored in Lisa's basement. Fiey basement climax has Bedi the spirit nobly leaving Lisa and going to Hell.
With poor special effects (a monster that looks like a big pulsating eye and dream sequences which are blurry and eye-straining), filmmaker James Polakof is in big trouble. Problem is exacerbated by photography or printing which makes the interior scenes look too dark. A good cast is the film's drawing card, with Wood impressive in her frequent simulations of sexual passion and Bedi, currently costarring in "Octopussy", perfectly cast as the silent, Valentino-esque romantic stranger. Other roles, including top-billed Britt Ekland, are strictly functional.