Night terrors.
A film that feels like Tobe Hooper was aiming to make the sort of horror Ken Russel might turn out and coming sort of close in places. The film has Robert Englund, really on form here, as the Marquis De Sade and one of his descendent's. The central character is the young daughter of an Archaeologist and fundamentalist christian working in Alexandria unearthing the temple of Gnostic Christians. Our young heroin has a fling with a local bedouin then finds herself getting deeper in with a libertine cult that seems in some way connected to the Gnostics. While overall the film doesn't quite hold together, its has some genuinely trippy visuals that wouldn't feel out of place in lair of the white worm and a strange almost dreamlike atmosphere to it. Plus there's a nasty undercurrent that seems to permeate the whole film that's somewhat in keeping with De sade. Overall its better than I remember it being.
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