Mausoleum (1983)
US possession horror, starring Playboy-Bunny-turned-Scream-Queen Bobbie Bresee, and evangelist-preacher-turned-B-movie-block-of-wood Marjoe Gortner. On the day of her mother's funeral 10 year-old Susan becomes possessed by a demon. The demon lays dormant inside her until 20 years later - on the anniversary of her mother's death - when Susan (Bresee) begins to display abilities of fire-starting and telekinesis. She also becomes uncharacteristically sexually promiscuous and unfaithful to her new husband (Gortner). As Susan's behaviour-changes become more pronounced she starts to undergo increasingly grotesque physical transformations, until finally the demon within is loosed upon the world, and it's up to a local psychiatrist to battle the forces of evil for Susan's soul.
This plays out like an attempted cross between The Exorcist and Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy - but isn't anywhere near as good as either. That's not to say it isn't enjoyable; the effects are all practical in that unmistakeable 80s way, there's plenty of gore, and the kills are pretty effective. Bresee gives it a good go and seems to be enjoying herself (her recollections of the film now are entertaining), but Gortner displays an astonishing lack of charisma (you'd expect more from a former evangelist preacher) and the rest of the cast are pretty forgettable. The tone is uneven (although Michael Dugan is credited as director, apparently on any given day a different person would be calling the shots; this may be due to the claims by several people that the whole thing was just a money laundering scam by the mob - who weren't that bothered with how the film turned out). The movie's big selling point was that Bresee gets naked - a lot (her comments on this are very funny; she was never under any misapprehension as to why she was hired!). A lot of things about the movie don't make sense (not least a WTF 'twist' that screams 'afterthought'), but as purely dumb fun it gets a 6/10