A beautiful young woman named Janey (Karen Witter) arrives at a school for delinquint girls known as Ravenscroft for a teaching position.
The place is run by Gary Julian (Robert Vaughn) and he is havng problems since a student has just disappeared. We see what happened to the student in the opening scenes of the film, and it's pretty well done.
As Janet becomes more involved with the school she discovers some terrifying things as more young women go missing and she has some pretty wild visions in her dreams about the killings and the mysterious killer.
It's not a bad film, but it just doesn't seem to have much direction. It's all over the place. The director, Gerard Kikoine seems to have only directed French porn films before this and it shows.
I do like the fact that Ravenscroft achool only has gorgeous women in it. That makes the film a little better. The ending is way over the top, but well done and Vaughn does a good job as a man who may be going slowly insane.
I am a fan of Karen Witter and enjoyed seeing her in this since I loved her in "The Vineyard". The rest of the cast includes Donald Pleasence, Ginger Lynn, Nia Long, and John Carradine in what would be his final movie. It was released two years after he passed away.
All in all not a bad film, but it could sure use some direction. The only ties it has to Poe are black cats and people buried behind walls. This movie is also obsessed with ants....lots of ants, which you have to see in order to understand it.
The final shot in the film leaves things open for a follow-up, but that never happened.
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