Susan Ferrell (Bresee) is drawn to a mausoleum in a cemetery that she enters, and is quickly possessed by a demon that has been in her family for years. Her maiden name is Nomed which is of course Demon backwards. Fully grown up, the demon inside her is awakening and she begins killing off anybody she wishes. The pesky Gardner (Sherbanee) is seduced by Susan, they have sex and then she transforms into a demon. Her eyes glow green and she hacks him up with a four clawed garden tool. Next is a delivery man who is killed when his head suddenly starts bleeding (you never really can tell what happens to him). A salesman in a mall is next. Her Aunt (Laura Hippe) is tossed off a balcony, and even her husband (Gortner, who completely sleepwalks through this role) is killed in gory fashion. Finally a friend of the family who happens to be a psychiatrist named Andrews (Burton) tries to exorcise the demon from Susan. This confusing mess makes no sense at all. The scenes are slapped together without the filmmakers caring if any of it made any sense. A dream sequence the husband has is effective and has some scary imagery but that is about it. Bobbie Bresee is topless and nude many times in this film and she is an eyeful, but a few more acting classes would have helped as you can clearly see in the scene where Andrews hypnotizes her. Her overacting is way over the top. The rest of the cast isn't much better and the sloppy Direction by Michael Dugan is also to blame. John Carl Buechler's make up design is highly inconsistent even though there were a few flashes of brilliance. The Demon's make up looks slightly different each time we see her. The final scene in the movie is the biggest head scratcher of them all involving the Gardner. It's not like any thing else made much sense but this end shot probably proves that everyone involved was on some serious drugs.

Shrouded in fog and subject to constant violent thunderstorms (despite being situated in an otherwise very sunny and pleasant looking cemetery), the Nomed (oooh, how clever is that?) family mausoleum would probably be the last place I would choose to enter if my lineage was cursed by demonic possession. However, after fleeing her mother's funeral, Young Susan Walker Farrell happily seeks solitude in the spooky burial chamber, and becomes a host for the creature that resides within.Years later, and the demon finally makes its presence known, turning the now married Susan (played by busty-but-otherwise-talentless starlet Bobbie Bresee) into a glowing-eyed, murderous nymphomaniac. After sleeping with and killing her gardener, bumping off a delivery boy, ripping her aunt apart, dropping a guy over a balcony in a shopping mall, scaring off the comic-relief home help (a crazy black housemaid who constantly jibber jabbers to herself), and partially devouring her husband with her slavering demonic breasts (I kid you not), Susan is saved by her shrink, who places a crown of thorns on her head, causing the monster within to crawl back to its crypt.Mausoleum, as you can probably tell from my description, is a rather crappy horror that lacks anything even remotely resembling a coherent and logical plot. It is laden with abysmal visual FX and make-up, loaded with genre clichés (fog, thunder and lightning, rats, cobwebs etc.), features tons of terrible acting, and, despite some very cheesy moments, is pretty dull viewing.Bresee gets her tits out quite a lot to try and compensate somewhat for her dreadful performance, but, even if she had done an explicit nude gymnastic routine in a hall of mirrors, it wouldn't have been enough to save the film from being a major waste of time. A dreadful twist/surprise ending (which also makes absolutely no sense) leaves viewers wondering just how such an obviously awful idea ever made it past the planning stage.

"Mausoleum" is a fairly entertaining and enjoyable supernatural horror.**SPOILERS**Following a traumatic childhood, Susan Farrell, (Bobbie Bresee) is having a perfectly normal life, according to her aunt Cora Nomed, (Laura Hippe) psychologist, Dr. Simon Andrews, (Norman Burton) and should be left alone. Despite her growing concerns that she's falling into a trap that the family is cursed to become involved in, her husband Oliver, (Marjoe Gortner) isn't too worried. When they start to notice that those around them are becoming involved in strange accidents, he finds something wrong with her cavalier attitude towards the mysterious events. Eventually realizing that it's something to do with her and their unique family history, he discovers that the mausoleum where her mother is buried led to her being possessed by a strange demon as a child, and is now out to destroy all those who anger her. Getting a handle on the situation, they try to put an end to her rampage before more people disappear.The Good News: This here isn't all that bad, and has some really great points about it. The film's at it's best when it goes for the cheesy 80s creature feature tactics. It's obvious that there's a rubber creature here for the possession, and while it's obvious, it still looks really great. With the glowing eyes, distorted features and much more in here that comes from the demonic facial features leave a great impression in viewers. There's also a lot of cheese to come from the film's deaths, which here are packed with several really cheesy sequences here which come from that sense of cheese. The makeup effects are good, with a scene involving the girl's breasts turning into snarling faces really standing out. During the early parts where the demonic happenings are confined to the different showings of that power. The attack on the house-guest, which comes complete with flowing fog, glowing lights and much more give it a really nice, cheesy feel. Aside from the cheese, it's also pretty creepy, as the beginning is one of the creepiest Gothic sequences around, and is backed up with a reprisal at the end which works wonders. The film also has a couple of really fun sequences, such as the aforementioned attack on the house-guest, as well as a couple of other attacks throughout the film which work incredibly well. The first one in the cemetery's mausoleum is pretty great, as is the set-up to the gardener one and the film's highlight, the showdown in the mall which is just superb. That one is fun, high action and much more in here which makes it seem really enjoyable. That also helps out the film's gore quotient, which here is pretty high. There's a lot more than expected for this kind of film, and there's some good stuff in this. There's a face scratched up with claws, an impaling through the chest with an umbrella, a garden trowel repeatedly stabbed in the head, being forced to scratch eyes out and having their chest bitten open and ribs separated, among other facets of gore. There's also the film's high amount of nudity, which is well-covered by those who are well-prepared to deliver it, and in some cases is fully utilized to it's best potential. These here are all apart of what makes the film work.The Bad News: There really isn't a whole lot to this one, and what little flaws there is aren't that bad. The biggest issue is the highly-unbelievable story that says that nearly all the family members are unable to understand the curse, and that it's persisted for so long without anything being done about it is a little hard to believe. That it's the subject of a diary entry that anyone in the family can access makes it all the more ridiculous, and with it being a fairly important part in the utterly ridiculous plot, that one stands up as the film's biggest issue. The cheese level could be something that won't sit well with some, and it's not entirely free of pretty lame scenes that aren't even in the slightest realistic, but picking apart the plot is what's going to be the biggest issue with this one.The Final Verdict: With a lot going for it and only a few problems, this is a pretty entertaining entry that is really enjoyable. Give it a chance if you enjoy these kinds of entries or find it interesting, while those who aren't really into these kinds of films should heed caution, as the flaws can be accentuated greatly in that case.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Full Nudity and a mild sex scene

There seemed to be a lot of these movies, all probably in reaction to "The Exorcist" and "Rosemary's Baby" in latter-seventies. You can add this film to the list including The Car, The Wraith (with a young Charlie Sheen, if memory serves, The Herse and Devil's Rain. The Dunwich Horror... well... it fits in this category, but is almost too good to include. Besides, it at least has Sandra Dee! And now a SLIGHT spoiler warning as this has been mentioned in previous comments...The secret family name NOMED was a rather obvious plot hint. If I were marrying someone with that name, one of the first things -I- would probably realize was that it indeed was DEMON spelled backwards.I think I would insist on a hyphenated name. Like Susan Cthulu-Smythe or some-such.This film would probably be a good selection for a collection of films which are "so bad, they're good."