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.
Costume
Ligeia's wig budget apparently went to craft services instead.
Acting
Sofya Skya commits to feral intensity nobody else matches.
Director
Michael Staininger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of many failed Poe adaptations from the 2000s direct-to-video boom, when public domain horror was cheaper than original ideas.
This was Wes Bentley's post-rehab comeback era—he'd later call his 2009-2012 output his 'lost period' in interviews.
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