The Evil Clergyman (1988/2012) – Charles Band.

Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the once lost The Evil Clergyman is a short, sharp shock of compelling eroto-Gothica. Featuring expectedly exemplary performances from Re-Animator alumni, David Gale, luscious Barbara Crampton, and Jeffrey Combs, plus another electric turn from British icon David Warner, scintillated by Richard Band's atmospheric score. Grieving Mrs. Brady's (Barbara Crampton) emotional return to the fateful room, wherein her charismatic lover Jonathan (Combs) killed himself proves darkly eventful. Sensually reunited by means supernatural, their fleshly union heralds a truly sinister revelation, as the honourable padre was, in reality, a malign sorcerer, evilly coveting her sweetly voluptuous body for desires more monstrous than she could ever have foreseen! As always, Barbara Crampton is a living dream, not only uncommonly beauteous, she delivers a bravura performance, with full-blooded character actor David Gale's diminutive demon rodent providing for a magnificently verminous nemesis! While brief, The Evil Clergyman is stirringly cinematic, dramatically presenting Lovecraft fans with a vividly macabre evocation of phantasmagorical perversity, which, I'm sure, the infamously misanthropic author would have (black) heartily approved of!