Like the Poltergeist's curse, Rosemary Baby's Curse, and lastly the Omen's Curse, many people connected with the film met unfortunate sad fates after the film wrapped, giving rise to an urban legend that Incubus was a cursed production. Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere. Actress Ann Atmar whom played Arndis committed suicide twelve days before the film's premiere. The daughter of actress Eloise Hardt was kidnapped and murdered. William Shatner's third wife drowned in a pool. Lastly, the Director Leslie Stevens and actress Allyson Ames divorced, and Stevens' production company, Daystar Productions, went bankrupt. The film was even lost for many years because the original print of the film burned in a fire and all copies were reported lost, destroyed, or worn away, but a copy of the film with French subtitles was found in the permanent collection of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2001. So finally we the audience get to watch this lost-long haunted film, and it wasn't good. The whole movie is first off, is a foreign language film of a language not many people know of called 'Esperanto'. Esperanto was created by a Dr L. L. Zamenhof, designed to be an international auxiliary language, to be learned to communicate across cultures. Sadly it didn't become that way. The producers thought by having Esperanto be the focus language, they can reach the most audiences. They should have done more research. The Esperanto-speaking audience is thinly spread around the planet, and virtually every country has little Esperantists. Not a very effective marketing strategy, as it turns out to be for them. Incubus was the second feature film primarily using Esperanto ever made. The first, Angoroj (Esperanto for Agonies) appeared in 1964 also failing to connection a audience. Esperanto speakers are generally disappointed by the pronunciation of the language by the cast of Incubus whom had to learn the language quickly. William Shatner sounds like he is forgetting his lines. My opinion is the movie dialogue is well enough pronounced, considering the short time they'd all been speaking it. Only in a medieval fantasy can you have a story line where Esperanto is spoken. It didn't help that the director Leslie Stevens has prohibited the film dub into other languages. The film is set in the town of Nomen Tuum haunted by succubus whom seduce tainted souls leading them to their deaths in order to offer their souls to Hell. A prominent young succubus named Kia (Allyson Ames) get bored, and wanted a challenge by seducing a good person. Her sister succubus, Amael (Eloise Hardt), warns Kia of the danger that a pure soul will bring something stronger than them: love. Kia persists anyway and attempts to find a man to seduce into darkness. Enters soldier Marc (William Shatner) and his over-acting whom come to their sacred water to heal his battle-wounds. She fails as her task, and falls in love with him. While the movie is call 'incubus', we don't see one until late in the movie. It's should be call Succubus. Her sister finally summons an incubus (Milos Milos) that attempts to kill Marc. The rape scene between the incubus and Marc's sister is probably the most disturbing thing in this film. The incubus actor is just awfully bad, mostly walks around in the buff and make weird faces. The movie is full of silly scenes, most noticeable is Kia fighting a goat. The movie is also a bit too preachy, as the film basically hangs on Marc deciding to have pre-marital sex or not, rather than worrying about going to hell for the fact that he murder people in the war. Arguably very Catholic viewpoint. The best part of the film is the black and white cinematography, due it remind us of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Using natural lighting, Conrad Hall contrasts light and shadows throughout the eerily setting to create an ominous feeling with a minimum amount of artificial props. Individual shots often qualify as art pieces—his camera shoots between ferns and wildflowers, through creeping fog and up through the ocean. The long shots of the black-robed succubus slowly proceeding on the beach is amazing. I thought it was very atmospheric. Somebody must have seen Shatner on those two Twilight Zone episodes and thought he would be perfect. Check it out, it's a must for Shatner completest.

Incubus is my new Gold Standard of bad films. I used to think "Robot Monster" was the worst film ever made until I saw "Plan 9 From Outer Space". I used to think "Plan 9 From Outer Space" was the worst film ever made until I saw "Manos – Hands of Fate". I used to think "Manos – Hands of Fate" was the worst ever until I saw - - "Incubus". "Incubus" has what is needed for a fun bad film - pretentious photography, silly plot line, bizarre acting, Junior-High-School-profound dialog. But mainly – William Shatner! William Shatner, overacts with inappropriate pauses and emphasis, in a language he is speaking phonetically (barely). Gather your friends and have a good time laughing and shouting "MS3TK" style insults at "Incubus". You…will have…a GOOD time!

Pretension is arranging the surface perception of being deep without actually being deep. That's why 'Last Year at Marienbad' is not pretentious (It's the real deal). And it's why 'Incubus' is pretentious. It shoehorned full of 'poetic' hyperbole ...foisting wall-to-wall pap on viewers in case they might miss it. Poetics are something a filmmaker stumbles across along a structural path. Half-hearted poetics decimate the structure here. There isn't a single gambit, or any stakes here that concern a viewer.If you'd seen this as a kid, it would have done an end-run around your growing adult taste, and bought your affection with some deliriously well-crafted visuals for a horror movie. The effort behind the camera is very accomplished, and suggests a careful study of old noirs. Really nice work. They can't seem to decide on what night looks like; but day for night looks better here than it ever did in noir.Then there's the horrid acting and that whole Esperanto thing.

Kia(Allyson Ames)is a succubus working for the God of Darkness who is bored with luring already lost souls to hell. She wants to be a major factor in the Dark Lord's legion and thirsts for the desire to turn a pure soul to the dark side. Kia's sister Amael(Eloise Hardt), warns her that doing this might be a very bad idea, but she is determined to carry it out. The challenge she hungers for becomes quite great when she chooses Marc(William Shatner), a man who is deemed heroic by a warning Amael who says he saved several men from a fire without any fear of death. Marc's faith in God is strong. When Amael sees that Kia has fallen in love with Marc, she sees an opportunity to turn Marc over by abusing his sister Arndis(Ann Atmar)by calling an incubus(Milos Milos)to harm her. This film is truthfully about good versus evil, an age-old theme which never tires because so many difficult stories spurn from it. In this film, Marc will have to overcome a lot of adversity because the evil side are nefariously sneaky in causing great harm to your emotional state, challenging your will of purity at it's core. On the other side, Kia is shown as a woman of pure evil who finds love and acceptance from a pure man she can not seem to separate from. The film is very, very good..better than I possibly could imagine. It plays like a feature length "OUter Limits" episode and I was kind of hoping it would be that way. It has eerie, darkened black and white photography and the music is creepy. The way it is shot is also a plus..a lot of talented people came together to make this film. The novelty of it being in Esperanto does increase the film's cult status, but it's the overall ominous mood and the way the characters are lensed for which I'd say try this little recently restored gem(actually the restoration was produced by SCi-fi Channel).