Possessed by the Night is another masterpiece from the prolific Fred Olin Ray, and is chiefly notable for T&A, although it has one foot in horror and one in erotic thriller.

An elderly Chinese couple arrive at the back of their Chinatown curio shop with a pick-up full of treasures. A loan shark enforcer arrives, but when he sees one of the items in the truck, a preserved embryo of a mutated animal in a jar, he suddenly backs off. It seems the creature in the jar is not quite dead, and has an evil influence over anyone around it. Those who come in contact with the embryo seem to crave sex, and have urges to choke the living snot out of everyone they are not having sex with.

Cut to a writer and his wife (Sandahl Bergman) having normal, embryo-free sex. He is experiencing writers' block, but his manager is in debt to the same loan shark introduced earlier, and is pressuring him to finish his latest novel. The writer takes a walk to clear his head and look for inspiration, wanders into the Chinese curio shop and buys the embryo. He arrives home, and his manager is there with a secretary (Shannon Tweed) to help him finish the novel.

I was fooled by that set-up into thinking there would be a real plot. Wrong.

Based on the first ten minutes, I would have the low IMDb score terribly unfair, because the story really seemed to have possibilities. Adding tits and buns and simulated sex is normally a good thing, but after a while that became the entire movie except for a bargain monster shown in hilarious close-up too many times. There was simply no more plot to pad out the nudity and sex. All of the characters were capable of acting, but the screenplay just did not fully use them.

There is, however, excellent nudity from three of the usual suspects. Sandahl Bergman, then 43, looks wonderful showing breasts and buns. Shannon Tweed steals the show exercising in a loose top and no bra, sweat glistening, and also shows breasts in a hot sex scene. Amy Rochelle shows breasts giving a massage to the loan shark.

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Nudity Report
Sandahl Bergman, then 43, looks wonderful showing breasts and buns.
Shannon Tweed steals the show exercising in a loose top and no bra, sweat glistening, and also shows breasts in a hot sex scene.
Amy Rochelle shows breasts giving a massage to the loan shark.