Griffth later elaborated: "I separated all the different things with sequences with the devil, which were really elaborate, and the dialogue in the past was all in iambic pentameter.
Roger would give it to anybody to read or anybody out on the street. It was in iambic pentameter and I had to rewrite it after it was ready to shoot because somebody told Roger that they didn’t understand it. So I did “The Trance of Diana Love” and it got shot funny, especially at the end, where you see the empty clothes before the revelation. He just said that we’d get ours done ahead of theirs and clean up. At the time, everybody was saying that they were making a bad picture. Roger said to me, “Do me a Bridey Murphy picture.” And I told him that by the time Paramount finishes theirs, ours will fail. It was originally called “The Trance of Diana Love”. Notably the book The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein was made into a film in 1956. The Undead was inspired by an interest in reincarnation during the 1950s (as was the film The She-Creature).
When Helene dies, her link with Diana disappears, leaving Quintus physically stranded in the past, much to Satan's amusement. However, if Helene evades execution, her future selves, including Diana, will never come into existence, so she accepts her fated death.
Via the psychic link between Diana and Helene, Quintus physically goes back in time to convince Helene to avoid her death, so he can witness the results of history changing. Quintus puts Diana into a trance and sends her back into the Middle Ages, where she shares the body of her past self, Helene, who is in prison, sentenced to die at dawn under suspicion of being a witch.Īt Diana's urging, Helene escapes prison, earning the attention of Livia (the witch for whose crimes Helene has been blamed) and of Satan himself. Quintus' former professor is present to witness it. He hires (for $500) a prostitute, Diana Love, and plans to send her into a trance over 48 hours so she can access her past life. Quintus, a psychic researcher who has spent seven years in Tibet, wants to send someone back in time into a past life.
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