Robert Wagner and Kate Jackson play Mr. and Mrs. Gregory, a couple who are writing a biography of a famous silent film star, Lorna Love. Apparently decades before, Mr. Gregory's father had an affair with Love but ended up leaving her....and the son is really fascinated with the lady. However, during their research they find some contradictory things--some folks thought she was practically the Devil herself and another said she was terrific! In addition, they find various Satanic paraphernalia about the Love mansion as they stay there as well as learning about Lorna's guru, Father Eternal Fire. What also is there is a weird glass coffin in which the dead Ms. Love resides! Weird, huh? Well, also weird are an attempt on the life of Mrs. Gregory as well as her husband becoming bizarrely infatuated with the dead woman! What's going on here?
This film suffers from a bad cliché, as Robert Wagner plays the son as well as the father in flashback scenes. The notion of a father and son who are identical is something you see in some TV shows or films, but it's rather ridiculous. Also ridiculous is much of the movie and the plot is just strange in so many ways. It also didn't help that Lorna looked nothing like a silent film star but like a woman right out of the 1970s...SOME effort to make her look like a silent era lady would have made sense. Overall, it's a very, very strange and goofy film...one that left me confused and annoyed because it sure could have been better.
This film suffers from a bad cliché, as Robert Wagner plays the son as well as the father in flashback scenes. The notion of a father and son who are identical is something you see in some TV shows or films, but it's rather ridiculous. Also ridiculous is much of the movie and the plot is just strange in so many ways. It also didn't help that Lorna looked nothing like a silent film star but like a woman right out of the 1970s...SOME effort to make her look like a silent era lady would have made sense. Overall, it's a very, very strange and goofy film...one that left me confused and annoyed because it sure could have been better.