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.

not the film. only presence of few actors with clear potential for decent work and the choice for Edgar Allan Poe. because it is one from many confuse films about nothing, who use a great piece of literature for a real ambiguous purpose. the good intentions are not enough in this case because it has not a start point and a finish line. it seems creepy and inspired by Gothic but without relevant result. the Ukrainean flag on a Russian palace is the best proof for an improvisation who remains only game with old clichés. bad detail is the fact than the film has not desire to convince the viewer. all is only a boring travel among stereotypes of genre, ignoring substance or a little dose of credibility. only a fake horror who use Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts and Michael Madsen only as hangers for poor characters.

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"

There is nothing that will get a movie downgraded faster than false advertising. If you are going to get an "R", then make the movie an "R", not a PG-13. There was nothing in this film that you cannot see routinely on broadcast television. It was a huge disappointment when you have someone as gorgeous as Sofya Skya, and all you see is her back. Sheesh! There was no one in this movie to cheer for. Yes, I know it's a Gothic tale, and it really made the grade there, but I expect a little more emotion from the actors. Go back and watch the early Gothic before special effects and see what actors did then.It was painful to watch.