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Horror

The Keep

1h 35m

Directed by Michael Mann • 1983 • United Kingdom
Starring Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow

​​Michael Mann’s infamous film maudit—met with incomprehension on its release but now an object of growing critical and cult reputation—unfolds in 1943 in German-occupied Romania, where Nazi invaders unwittingly unleash a sinister presence lurking within the walls of an ancient fortress in the Carpathian Alps— a presence that doesn’t take kindly to unwanted guests. Despite a notoriously troubled production and studio interference (the director’s original cut ran 210 minutes), THE KEEP stands as a darkly ravishing triumph of trance-state mood and visuals, enhanced by an otherworldly synth score by Tangerine Dream.

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