Pluskylang Great Film overall

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

TdSmth5 In the intro somewhere in Europe a little girl's mother dies. The mother gives her some necklace and when she dies, her ghost escapes out the window.Years later in the US Jonathan, a literature professor, is very successful in his lectures. A strange, dark, and attractive students follows him to wherever he gives a presentation. The dean tells him a little bit about her. At some point they meet. The girl, Ligeia, is seductive and interested in him. But he's engaged to another girl who's father is some good for nothing drunk. We learn that Jonathan is very wealthy.In the meantime, Ligeia, who's a religious studies major, does experiments in the morgue. She somehow captures the spirit of the dead in a container. The dean catches but she has leverage on him. Eventually she throws him off a building and he ends up in the hospital. Still, she manages to capture his soul as well.By now Ligeia has managed to make Jonathan fall for her. He dumps the other girl, marries Ligeia, buys her family's former estate in Russia, and moves there. Turns out she has some debilitating disease, sees the grim reaper, and faints repeatedly. But she also continues her experiments. She collects these containers with souls, transfers them into wine, and drinks the wine. Also, on the property live a caretaker and his daughter who also has condition.Ligeia ends up dying, and is interred on the property. But from the grave she manages to control things via the girl. Jonathan gets back together with his ex and brings her to Russia where Ligeia's spirit continues to be up to no good.The tomb has a lot going for it: the stunning Sofya Skya, the lovely Kaitlin Doubleday, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Wes Bentley, good locations, a very good story that mixes ghost story with metaphysics. But the execution fails somehow. Obviously, this is a lower budget B movie. There's a lot going on, unlike most movies today were the story doesn't offer a whole lot. But somehow the filmmakers struggle with making the story sensible. The story advances is spurts leaving some pretty big gaps that no one bothers to explain. I'm still not clear what Ligeia was trying to accomplish with her experiments and exactly how she meant to achieve it. They could have lengthened the running time a bit to explain things, or instead of wasting time on repetitive exterior shots could have added more dialogue. This movie is worth watching for the girls and the story.

whitemike2000 this was a good movie, but had a few minor problems, one that it should have had a little better story line and two which is the most important it needed to show some raw nude action with Sofya Skya, but other then that it was a good movie but i have seen much better. and also it could have a little better acting but as always Sofya Skya remains hot as hell, but Eric Roberts did some what of a shitty role. could also be looked as a slap in the balls to Edgar Allen Poe, and the caretaker's niece needs to learn to speak Russian but then that is just a opinion by someone who is a perfectionist "me" and also i found the that it wasn't really fallowing the original "The Tomb of Ligeia"

innocuous I would normally give "The Tomb" about five stars, if only because it was made in a competent manner (i.e., you can hear everything, the editing is reasonable, shots are framed, etc.). But I have to deduct one star for being so blatantly derivative and one star for being an insult to Mr. Poe. No, wait...I'm taking another star away because everybody is just so BAD in this film.The story is only minimally based on Poe's short story. I can hear the producer's now..."What? No children in danger? Add one! No sex? Add some! How does she come back from the dead? Through strength of will alone? No good! Add some satanic rituals and symbols. While you're at it, go find out how much Michael Madsen and Eric Roberts want for small, crappy parts. Nobody else is hiring them, so we ought to be able to get them for a song." (Madsen and Roberts have two totally irrelevant and shoddy roles in this production, but I guess that Madsen has to buy black hair dye somehow.) What is more fatal to this film than anything else is that we just don't care about any of the characters. We don't hate any of them, we don't like or sympathize with any of them. They just sort of exist to deliver their lines.As far as excitement, forget it. There isn't any. No nudity (worth mentioning,) no gore, no mystery, no chases, no fights (of any length or quality,) no shocking or surprising moments. It's just drab.Overall, a very stinky film. Don't bother.

lewiskendell "We will never have to pay that price. We can live forever."I don't know why I watch movies like these. They're clearly going to be awful. All the reviews I read further reinforced the fact that it was going to be awful. But, I still felt compelled to see it, anyway. And yep, it was awful.The problems were myriad. The scares and horror aspect of The Tomb were surpassed by most of The Goosebumps books I read as a kid. The story was silly and bland. The attempt to appeal to the audience with sex fell flat with scenes that would hardly earn a PG-13 rating and had no chemistry between the participants.The absolute worst things about The Tomb, though were the acting and the script. The entire cast was uniformly wretched, especially Wes Bentley and Sofya Skya. Sofya is certainly a very beautiful woman, but she would be wise to reconsider this whole "actress" thing. And Bentley came close to achieving the feat of making me never want to see another movie that he's in, ever. As for the script, describing it as "amateur" would be an insult to everyone who has ever been an amateur at anything in the history of the world. The dialogue is abysmal, and I can't imagine that anyone spent more than a few hours writing this.I don't know what kind of dire financial situations are responsible for Eric Roberts and Michael Madsen being in this dreck, but I'm willing to offer money out of my own pockets to help them never have to be in anything this terrible, again. The only possible entertainment to be gained from The Tomb is from making fun of it. It's hilariously bad, but still too boring for me to recommend even for a laugh with your friends.