Talk:Incubus (1965 film)

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Here's some material from a flyer someone can use for the article. It's playing in Cambridge, Mass. Friday Nov. 8, 2002. An imaginary land, called Nomen Tuumen, is home to a well which is reported to have mystical healing powers. Sufferers make the pilgrimage to this well hoping to drink its magical water. At the same time, beautiful demons lurk near the well hoping to capture the corrupt souls who flock there. A wounded soldier (William Shatner) comes to the well with his saintly sister. They are too good for the demons to hunt, but one inexperienced demon thinks she can and a battle between good and evil erupts.

Incubus is the first movie filmed entirely in Esperanto. It also received glorious acclaim at film festivals in San Francisco and Paris in 1965. Shortly after those screenings, the negative and all prints were destroyed and the film was lost to the world. Recently, a print was discovered in the archives of the Cinematheque Francaise, and it has been been restored and made available on video. (sorry, i don't know how to talk well, and sorry for the bad shatner joke before)

Please see http://web.mit.edu/ifilm/www/SCREENING_FILES/FALL2002/incubus.html for more info! Courtesy Ortolan88 18:32 Nov 5, 2002 (UTC)

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Ok, I'm sorry, but is it part of the curse that Shatner is still alive??

-JonMoore 08:22, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

i think that to have Shatner's career maligned so comically is, to a certain degree, as plausible, certainly as falsifiable, a part of a 'curse' as anything else that happened. sure, somebody's kid got kidnapped, but history forgot that. how sad is it to be a joke forever? that's gotta be rough. shatner was one vulcan nerve dance away from being an adam west. fortunately, both of them are humble enough to play the joke character. i think it's a tribute to shatner to make fun of him, and his curse of immortal infamy. -[[User:

[edit] "met with gruesome fates"

"met with gruesome fates" doesn't really seem appropriate as it implies that their fates were brought on by other people or by forces majeures.

also, a Salon article about this topic seems to have a lot of similar phrasing. if there has been plagiarism, i'm going to solve the problem by changing the wp article, no matter who is actually to blame.

-omphaloscope 25 Nov 2004, 14:21 (UTC)

Here are the collected Shatner jokes (from this page's history of entries); some funny, some not. Thought it would be worth a running total:

• Shatner is now starring in commercials for PriceLine
• Shatner later embarked on a singing career
• William Shatner is now staring in "Miss Congeniality 2" with Sandra Bullock
• Shatner would later star in Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• William Shatner later wrote, produced, directed and starred in the "TekWar" TV Series
• Shatner recently produced and starred in the "Invasion Iowa" mini-series
• In 2001 Shatner starred as The Chairman on "Iron Chef USA: Holiday Showdown
• William Shatner went on to star in Star Trek
• Shatner is Canadian
• William Shatner is now fat
• William Shatner is now the voice of Ozzie the Possum in the upcoming animated film "Over The Hedge."
• In 2003, Shatner provided his voice talents to the straight to video Macromedia Flash movie "Lil Pimp", as the character Tony Gold.
• William Shatner later recorded Transformed Man and star in T. J. Hooker
• William Shatner embarked on a much-parodied music career, beginning with the 1968 album Transformed Man.

-blx 19:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Most English speakers have given the film good ratings and reviews"

Can someone give some citations? This is easily the worst movie I have ever seen, and not in a good way. --Andymussell 02:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree. This film is awful. The goat? What's up with the goat? The acting is dreadful, especially Shatner, who delivers his lines with his usual lack of subtlety and gradce, the timing is bad, the cinematography is horrendous, there's way too much directionless running around the set, and...ugh, it just makes me nauseous thinking about it. It's great to watch at 1 am with friends after you've had a few so you can shout at it and make fun of the awfulness. Can anybody cite any review that said this was a good movie at all? Makaristos 18:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shatner's career

William Shatner embarked on a much-parodied music career, beginning with the 1968 album Transformed Man.

This is listed in the section on "the curse". This neglects that Shatner has had great success as Captain Kirk, so he would hardly seem to be cursed, no matter how bad his music career turned out. - furrykef (Talk at me) 23:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)