1982's "Incubus" doesn't waste time, making sure to dump as many characters and situations on the audience as possible during the initial act of the movie, leaving them with little to invest in as the story begins to take shape. Confusion is a common feeling during the picture, as director John Hough ("The Watcher in the Woods," "Return from Witch Mountain") doesn't pay the closest attention to the particulars of this horror endeavor, electing to take star John Cassavetes's lead and just wing it from one end of the tale to the other. It's a loose improvisational quality that provides most of the production fog that clouds "Incubus," which is an otherwise competently crafted genre effort that looks and sounds like a proper low- budget chiller. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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