This movie is available on Tubi right now. That's where I saw it.

It's an early-ish Wes Craven movie, and, um.... well, it's complicated. It's hard to know exactly what to say about it.

You can tell from the background music, the way everybody dresses, and their hair, that this movie comes out of the late 70s. It might have laid some of the groundwork for Children of the Corn, but it just has major 70s vibes throughout. One of the main characters, played by babe Maren Jensen, reminds me a LOT of Amy Irving in The Fury.

It's basically a story about a young couple who live in a farmhouse, mostly surrounded by neighbors who belong to some kind of religious sect called the Hittites. (The real Hittites were an ancient civilization in what we call Turkey today. I think maybe Wes Craven wanted to have the sect be Hutterites, but he didn't want to get sued, so he just changed the name a little). Anyway, the sect is a lot like the Amish or Mennonites. If that's what you expect to see, your expectations will be about right.

They are led by their stern, intolerant pastor, played by Ernest Borgnine. Throughout the movie, he comes across as an antagonist, and generally an unsympathetic bad guy. But, don't get too judgy, because... well, just don't.

The sect is always talking about something called the Incubus, which is some kind of demon that they think is threatening everybody's souls.

Maren Jensen has some sort of past history from the world outside of the rural farming area where the story is set. Early in the film, a couple of her old friends come to visit. One of them is played by Sharon Stone! It's her first movie where she talks. She looks so young. Anyway, they show up to visit, shortly after Maren J's character's husband, who is a former Hittite, gets mysteriously killed in a tractor accident.

There are other characters in the movie, people who aren't in the Hittite sect. Various people seem to really hate each other, so you might get the feeling there could be some violence and murder in this movie. And, well, yah, you shouldn't rule that out.

So, what can I say without wrecking it. Well, for me, it was a little too complicated, and it didn't quite come together enough to really make sense. I suspect that Wes Craven had a solid master plan, but somehow it was interfered with... maybe he ran out of money halfway through, or an important cast member got sick or injured, or studio higher-ups got involved and made him film things in some way that veered away from his master plan. It must be something like that, some random thing that messed with his plan. I just don't think Wes C would make a movie that makes this little sense.

It does have scary moments. Also, it is kind of worth seeing just to see a movie that co-stars Ernest
Borgnine, Sharon Stone, and Michael Berryman... that sounds so strange, to think of them together in one movie. It also has hints of a Rosemary's Baby or The Omen -ish type of plot or subplot, possibly left over from an early draft of the script. Or maybe that was Wes C's intention, from the beginning, to film a sort of Amish Omen movie, but for whatever reason he had to veer away from his plan.

Anyway, it could be worth seeing if you feel like speculating about what might have gone wrong filming it, or if you are in the mood to see some babes. But, I can't really give it two thumbs up.

There you have it.