The Keep

1983 "They were all drawn to the keep. Tonight, they will all face the evil."
5.7| 1h36m| R| en| More Info
Released: 16 December 1983 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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Revenue: 0
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Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.

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VividSimon Simply Perfect
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
EthrielTd So many people here have come to this movie with modern eyes. Of course the SFX are going to look dated it was made 32 years ago! However, the movie is carried along (for the most part) by the visuals and the excellent (if mixed somewhat loudly) Tangerine Dream soundtrack.The story does seem to jump evidencing the loss of footage at some point and at someone's behest...I hope to see a Directors Cut one day if the "issues" with who/whatever has them ever get sorted. A new sound mix would be excellent to add more dynamic range to the audio, it seems a touch over compressed as was the style in the 80's.An unsettling movie somewhat let down by a chain of events starting with the death of the SFX head Wally Veevers. Add in some studio meddling and a whole bunch of other wrangling with Tangerine Dream and it's evident the movie isn't what it could have been.As for Paul F Wilson's opinion it's moot, as an author will very rarely think any adaptation lives up to what he envisioned.**The version from Netflix is currently the best quality anywhere in the wild**
clanciai Pity about a great and interesting story, which could have been handled better. Jurgen Prochnow and Gabriel Byrne as the two German officers of different minds are outstanding and make this film worth watching carefully, but the drama is damaged by the overstressed technical details, which in the 80s could not be made convincing enough to be worth exaggerating. The story of Ian McKellen and his daughter is fascinating enough and almost credible, if the demon did not have to much say in it. Scott Glenn also makes an intriguing figure adding to the character of the film as something of a mystery play, and no drama could be more dramatic than when almost all the protagonists die in the process. The music plays a special part in augmenting and stressing the drama and tensions and is highly efficient in illustrating the supernatural and demonic element. The fact that this Carpathian drama occurs exactly at the crucial turning point of the war, and that the Germans release the demon just in time to make him turn against them, is an intriguing part of the plot. Yes, it is indeed a film worth seeing and thinking about, but you don't need to see it twice.
Rueiro After reading Paul Wilson's excellent suspenseful novel (which I picked at a second-hand book stall in a remote Welsh village) I couldn't wait to watch the film adaptation… And what a disappointment!! The only thing worth mentioning is the beautiful cinematography. As for the rest, the script is laughable at times, the main actors are totally miscast and the score is totally out of place… An electronic soundtrack on a horror story set in World War II??... The composer must have been high on weed. Jurgen Prochnow was cast because of his new international popularity after Das Boot. The girl (who is she?!) looks too much like a 1980s disco vamp, Ian McKellen seems like he happened to be passing by (Peter Cushing would have been great in the role!), Scott Glenn looks like a zombie in a cheap George Romero flick, and Robert Prosky's character was totally created by the screenwriter and is totally gratuitous, since he does nothing of any relevance to the plot. And the monster looks rather like Predator than a centuries old demon. And now I see where Mr Coppola got the armour suit design for Gary Oldman's Vlad Tepes in his infamous 1992 Dracula from… If you haven't read Wilson's novel, you won't understand half of what is going on: who is the demon, who is Glaeken, what links them to each other, who built the keep?… So many questions without an answer, so many loose ends. I understand the film originally ran for three hours but it was chopped down to 90 minutes by the studio against Mann's wishes. They totally ruined it. Don't waste your time on this mess. Go and read the book if you get a chance.
Dark Jedi I have to say that I quite liked this movie. It is a fairly typical 80's horror movie but the visuals are quite enjoyable. I am not talking about the special effects here, which of course are fairly obsolete by today's standards, but rather the scenes themselves. The movie frequently have that mystical, eerie tone over it that you would expect from a horror movie with supernatural demons involved.The plot itself is nothing new. Stupid and greedy guy releases ancient demon. Demon kills a bunch of people. Mystical (supernatural) good guy comes and saves the day. The fact that the movie centers around a Nazi troop is more or less just a pretext for some SS silliness and heated outbursts between the SS commander and Captain Woermann (Prochnow). The movie could just as well have been made around another troop or in another time period.The acting is of good standard. Jürgen Prochnow and Gandalf, sorry Ian McKellen, are both strong actors. Even so, the enjoyment of this movie is mostly due to the look of the movie. If you watch it be sure to watch it on a decent screen and in its original wide-screen format.