it not worth go on too long about this semi supernatural thriller . the young and cute and predatory look blond izabella miko attend the funeral of her erstwhile best friend at a remote new england estate rule by miko ex lover and austin nichols a roderick usher . the two of them be rather gloomy . i mean and what with the suicide of the best friend and all . the atmosphere isn not help by the presence of the housekeeper and beth grant and make up like a vampire and so much so that madonna would look like a fresh faced virgin beside her . the general air of dread doesn not keep miko from spend a lot of time wander about the mansion in her underwear . there nothing intrinsically wrong with that . i do it all the time myself . the problem be that these scene be the highlight of the film . this be bad than edgar allan poe bad hang over . the photography be atmospheric enough and the location aptly choose but everything else seem slap together . it resemble a carefully conceive feature film the way a child roll together limbs and torso make of clay and top by a tiny ball of a head and resemble a human be . nobody in it can act and but that aside the story itself make no sense . edgar wouldn not have care too much about that and but he have other thing go for him and whereas this have only miko bun . of the three principle and miko be least bad and nichols be well into negative territory and and grant every utterance remind u that she try to act in a movie . at first and after do her grief work and miko come on the nichols and smooch him up and her wide open lip reveal glisten incisor of frighten dimension . he demur . his neurasthenia prevents him from respond . later and when she arrange matter less formally and straddle his lap and he apologies because he still can not perform . there be another murky scene in which she toy with the belt of his robe . next thing pow . she pregnant with twin . what be this and coitus interruptus without the coitus . the least the director could do be throw u an explicit and climactic scene of strenuous couple . neurasthenia and the mysterious disease from which roderick usher suffers and be an old fashioned term and current enough in freud period of disorganized nomenclature . it be use to refer to what we might call chronic fatigue today and combine with a little attention get irritability . but why be i go on about neurasthenia and you ask . because i think i catch it from this movie . i notice it particularly in regard to my black cat and pluto and a fiend from hell . i keep tell him and just keep it up and that all . but do he listen .