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The Tomb (2009 film)

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The Tomb
Directed byMichael Staininger
Written byJeff Most
Based on"Ligeia"
by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced byDonald P. Borchers
Jeff Most
StarringWes Bentley
Sofya Skya
Kaitlin Doubleday
Michael Madsen
Eric Roberts
CinematographyJamie Thompson
Edited byDanny Saphire
Music byPatrick Cassidy
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Tomb (also known as Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia) is a 2009 horror film directed by Michael Staininger and starring Wes Bentley, Sofya Skya, Kaitlin Doubleday, Michael Madsen, and Eric Roberts. It is based on the short story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Plot

Jonathan Merrick, a best-seller author, falls in love with a fascinating girl named Ligeia. But she keeps a deadly secret, she is ill and she needs to steal souls to survive. In her quest to immortality she will do anything to keep the death away. Jonathan, haunted by her beauty, breaks up with his girlfriend Rowena. Ligeia and Merrick take a house on the shores of Black Sea and he enters in a dark and hopeless world.

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