IMDb plot summary: Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne, and Ian McKellen.
The plot is just barely clinging together here -- apparently director Michael Mann dran into a LOT of shooting difficulties, and then his visual effects supervisor died two weeks into post-production, and THEN he had to cut down his 210-minute movie to two hours, which the studio then cut down to 90 minutes, and you can see the many, many holes that resulted. That being said... it's undeniably atmospheric. You can almost lean into the barebones plot as missing pieces not because it'd been brutally chopped up but because it's an unearthly tale that we'll never fully understand. The editing makes it almost impossible to tell where rooms in the keep are relative to each other, and while on one hand that's an obvious editing error, on the other it definitely builds the unease and tension, much more than the incessant smoke. Apparently the film has a small cult following, and I totally get why. It's kind of captivating in all its messiness.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Keep > After the Wedding
The Keep < Chronicle
The Keep < American Outlaws
The Keep < Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)
The Keep < Killing Season
The Keep < Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Keep > Absolute Power
The Keep > Mudbound
The Keep < Hustle & Flow
The Keep > Frank
The Keep > Dark and Stormy Night
The Keep < Monsters
Final spot: #1576 out of 3238, or 51%.
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