Reception
The premiere of Incubus took place at the San Francisco Film Festival on October 26, 1966, where, according to producer Taylor, a group of 50 to 100 Esperanto enthusiasts "screamed and laughed" at the actors' poor pronunciation of the language. Partly because of its Esperanto dialogue, and partly because of the scandal of one of the actors taking his own life and that of his girlfriend (see below), Taylor and Stevens were unable to find any distribution for the film except in France, where it premiered in November 1966.
Nevertheless, the film enjoys a 71% approval rate on the website Rotten Tomatoes.
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