Incubus (1975 movie)

Incubus is a horror movie about a traveling family on a road trip. During this road trip, the family unfortunately gets a flat tire where they stumble upon a nearby community village that seems pretty isolated in the middle of the woods. While there, they learn of an eerie cult that the village grows concerned of somewhere in the woods. Unable to find a place to stay while their car is being fixed, the family ends up finding the house of the cult. Contrast to the community rumors, the family discovers that the cult is very accepting and welcoming and gladly let the family stay as long as they want. However, soon the women of the family find it very uncomfortable with the cult members as they get separated from the family and are taken advantage of. They eventually become abused, raped, and killed by these cult members from crazed obsessions and the men of the family find it difficult to escape. Soon the men are conformed into the cult and join them in their obsessive beliefs and habits.

The movie will cast some several growing stars to help build up a growing audience and attract viewers. Dustin Hoffman plays as one of the cult members, Clint Eastwood as the cult leader, Richard Dreyfuss as the family father, Julie Christie as the mother, Melissa Sue Anderson as the daughter, and Jason Bateman as the son. The cast here we chose because many of these actors are known for their serious roles and hope that this movie will help spark their acting careers. The director of the film is William Friedkin who also directed The Exorcist. He has shown that he can direct a very successful horror, specifically a horror film about demonic superstitions and corrupted people. The studio helping to make this movie is a small studio called Laurel Group Inc. which was involved in the Night of the Living Dead. Our distributing company was Bryanston Pictures which also has helped in the horror industry such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Devil's Rain.

The genre of this movie is obviously horror. Because it's the 1970s, violence and sex start to become a more popular thing in movies. Viewers want to see more mature and hard-edged stories that makes them cringe or think twice about. This movie provides a horror story that involves psychological torture and disturbances on the women and violent death scenes in hopes to entertain this new 1970s phase. Also this movie provides a blurred concept of good and evil which is also a 1970s film characteristic. This is because as the movie progresses, the viewer sees the men of the movie struggle between the ideals of the cults and the situation they are in. It exemplifies how man can be easily induced to blind leadership and how we cannot tell evil from good at certain times. This movie is essentially a statement on the fact that the men in the movie are clearly corrupted to the point where their free will is no longer there.

The movie is rated R due to the disturbing violence, sexual content, nudity, and language. The movie will be very grotesque obviously not suitable for children. This movie is mostly focused on the attract and entertain adults who enjoy rash movies and story lines that aren't just happy endings. It helps to create a unique style of story telling and movie making in a vulgar style.

Our group did a good job in creating this movie and there really isn't a lot to change about this movie. But if I had to change it, personally I would fix up the story to avoid some plot holes. Like I probably would not involve a community prior to meeting the cult. I would definitely focus a lot on make-up to make the gore of the film as realistic as possible to make this really fit the horror genre.