The Tomb

The Tomb, also known as Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia, is a 2009 horror film directed by Michael Staininger and starring Wes Bentley, Sofya Skya, Kaitlin Doubleday, Michael Madsen, and Eric Roberts. It is based on the short story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe. Plot Jonathan Merrick, a best-seller author, falls in love with a fascinating girl named Ligeia. But she keeps a deadly secret, she is ill and she needs to steal souls to survive. In her quest for immortality she will do anything to keep death away. Jonathan, haunted by her beauty, breaks up with his girlfriend Rowena. Ligeia and Merrick take a house on the shores of the Black Sea and he enters into a dark and hopeless world. Cast Wes Bentley as Jonathan Merrick Sofya Skya as Ligeia Kaitlin Doubleday as Rowena Mackenzie Rosman as Lorelei Christa Campbell as Mrs. Burris Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Mr. Burris Eric Roberts as Vaslov Michael Madsen as George Lydia Hull as The Bartender Release The film premiered at the 2009 St. Louis International Film Festival.