While her husband suffers through a midlife crisis, a woman begins having mysterious and increasingly sensual experiences in their new home on the Pacific coast. Before long, she comes to believe her sexual feelings are being awakened by the spirit of a long-dead man.
Subgenres: ghost, gothic
Director: John Korty
Starring: Jane Seymour, Gerald McRaney
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This is the stuff of a gothic romance, and trhe movie, unfortunately, knows it. While I certainly prefer the film's overcooked approach to the exploitative brutality of The Entity (a film with a similar hook but totally different execution), I found the thing horribly corny. This story needed to be written for the big screen, not the small one (if it had to be written at all); I'm not suggesting Jane Seymour should have been naked as she's enjoying her ghostly paramour's attentions, butr the film is shot in such a way that at times--especially during the "climactic" sex scene--we're not quite sure exactly what's going on. Add some poor execution of mediocre special effects and music straight out of a bad period romance, and you've a film that a decent performance by Gerald McRaney only partially redeems. I do want to know one thing, though: the floating ghost-head, made so memorable in films like Tormented and Echoes, puts in an appearance here. It should fire its agent. (Aug 1999) | ||||||
