Mausoleum is a 1982 supernatural horror film

Horror film

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 directed by Michael Dugan and starring former Playboy Bunny

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 Bobbie Bresee.

Plot

Susan Nomed (Bobbie Bresee) was ten when her mother died. Now thirty, blonde and beautiful, she is heiress to the family fortune. But for the women of the Nomed family there is another legacy that no one wants to remember, an ancient and evil curse. Possessed by powers that overtake her, Susan's life becomes a nightmare of lust, terror and murder until even her husband finds himself confronting the face of evil. Only one person can help her cast away the evil, but he will have to face the prince of darkness to free Susan from the grip of Satan.

Cast

• Bobbie Bresee as Susan Walker Farrell
• Marjoe Gortner
  Marjoe Gortner
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   as Oliver Farrell
• Norman Burton as Dr. Simon Andrews
• Maurice Sherbanee as Ben, the gardener
• LaWanda Page
  LaWanda Page
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   as Elsie, the maid
• Laura Hippe as Aunt Cora Nomed
• Sheri Mann as Dr. Roni Logan
• Julie Christy Murray as Young Susan

Release

The film was given a limited release

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 theatrically in the United States

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 by Motion Picture Marketing (MPM) in 1983. It was subsequently released on VHS

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 by Embassy Home Entertainment

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The film was released on DVD

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 by BCI Entertainment as part of their Exploitation Cinema double feature

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 line alongside the film Blood Song

Blood Song

Blood Song is a 1982 horror film directed by Robert Angus and Alan J. Levi and starring Frankie Avalon.-Plot:...

. This version is currently out of print

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