The Keep movie

[richarDISNEY]

It looks like The Keep has been added to Netflix streaming for insta view....

http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/The_Keep/70153886?trkid=2744492#height2002

Bad movie, but cool idea.

[swiftnick]

I thought it was quite good. I have the video somewhere.

[ErikB]

I liked the movie.  Not brilliantly made, the music was bad, but the setting, idea, characters, and story were great.  I always wished there were sequels.

Reminds me of the Dune movies in terms of being a bad production of a great story.

[Hammers]

A real stinker.

[shadowking1957]

The movie was OK the book was far better, an excellent read...

Tony

[ErikB]

One thing I liked about the movie is that it took me to a place in E. Europe that I had never seen and had no idea about. 

That's one of the things I like about historical movies (not that this was really history).

[Calimero]

Is that the movie were a bunch of German soldiers stop in a fortress which turn out to be some evil entity’s prison? If so I’ve seen it on tele ages ago. If memory serve me well (don’t bet on it…) it was okay but not great…

[Jakar Nilson]

Is that the movie were a bunch of German soldiers stop in a fortress which turn out to be some evil entity’s prison? If so I’ve seen it on tele ages ago. If memory serve me well (don’t bet on it…) it was okay but not great…

Yep, that's the one. And Ian McKellen is in it, this time as the wheel-chair-bound professor.

[majorsmith]

I thought it was quite a good film, as for the music, damn awesome don't knock tangerine dream!!!

[Alfrik]

If you watch it knowing its a B movie and have fun laughing at the worst parts, its kinda a fun movie!

[Connectamabob]

I love this movie.

Oh, it's not a great movie by any stretch: the script & editing are pretty muddled, the acting is waaaay all over the map, and the ancient magic McGuffin is probably the most hilariously bad prop in all of B-movie history.

...But the setting is one of the most awesomely creepy places you've ever see in a movie (seriously, you couldn't pay me to sleep there even if it wasn't haunted). The music, though odd, is also awesome and adds a whole new layer of dreamlike weirdness to the atmosphere. I also love how the good guy/bad guy dynamic focuses on the difference between regular Wehrmacht as mostly ordinary blokes trying to get by, and the SS/Einsatzkommandos as evil Nazis proper.

The book is great too. The comparison with the David Lynch version of Dune is a very apt one IMO: both have very striking and well executed visuals, both have excellent casts who deliver often oddly poor performances, both have weak & muddied scripts and editing, and both inspire very similar arguments among fans of the source material.

[goon3423]

You gotta read the book. it's a good as the movie is bad  ! It's funny that this came up, I just started watching this on Netflix a few days ago and after a few minutes I remembered how much I hated it. This is one movie that is ripe for a good remake if one were to make it much, much closer to the book.

[Colonel Tubby]

I've never seen the film but I did read the book in my early teens!

Can't remember if it was good or not, the only vauge memory I seem to have is of gold crosses built into a wall?

[Connectamabob]

Brass uprights with nickle crosspieces in the book, full nickle crosses in the movie. Well, most of them .

There was an attempt to remake/re-adapt The Keep a few years ago, but it never got past the early planning stages. IMO a two part TV miniseries would be the way to do it if you wanted to get the full story of the book in there. A single movie would have to cut stuff in order to come in at a decent length without rushing things along too much.

...Which is what the Micheal Mann film did with the dropping of the vampire stratagem subplot. A book-accurate ending was filmed and was supposed to be in there, but the studio went back and butchered recut it after the filmmakers were finished. The footage still exists (you can find parts of it on youtube), and there's occasional rumors of a DVD directors cut release that would be much tidier and truer to the book, but it's never come together for one reason or another.

There was a graphic novel adaptation at one point that was supposed to be pretty much verbatim to the book, but I've only ever seen snippets of it. The art is kind of Mike Mignola-ish, which is pretty appropriate IMO.

[white knight]

I have the graphic novel. It's quite good.