Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

hongkong666 A very entertaining movie, filled with stereotypes of the Nazis, but also an amazing soundtrack which leaves this Horror movie almost to appear light hearted and extremely epic! It tries more to suck you into its atmosphere than to scare you and surprisingly even shows two sides of the German military. Byrne as the cold blooded, calculated, unforgiving murderer while Prochnow changes more and more during the progressing of the movie, adding a refreshing humane aspect to it. This film drowns you in it's soundtracks, but also steps back when needed. I highly recommend you to watch this movie, for it is completely free of jump scares, allowing the audience to focus on the plot itself. Jürgen Prochnow and Ian McKellen deliver an outstanding performance, while Alberta Watson and Scott Glenn reveal at least a lot of skin.

Zori Engelbrecht I only watched this because Jurgen Prochnow was in it. This was as opposite to 'Das Boot' (that he was in) as you could possibly get. I couldn't believe it. What a shocker! The whole story is pointless and superficial. The characters are two dimensional at best, just vague outlines and either good or bad and the dialogue is simplistic and childish. Somewhere in the middle of this most unmemorable movie the lead female and the mysterious weird male meet and have sex for absolutely no reason as far as the plot goes. The sex is completely irrelevant to anything at all and the two characters have hardly even spoken to each other. There are a lot of pointless special effects that just look like something stuck on for the sake of it. Wow, Jurgen must have needed money BADLY to do this.

brchthethird THE KEEP is an interesting, but frustrating, early film by Michael Mann. It features some good performances by Sir Ian McKellen, Gabriel Byrne and Scott Glenn, but they are all in service of a confusing, half-baked plot. The story set during WWII in Nazi-occupied Romania, where a malevolent force is wreaking havoc in a keep. Ian McKellen plays a Jewish scholar who is brought in to try and figure out what the entity is, and Scott Glenn plays a mysterious stranger who arrives and tries to keep the scholar from releasing the entity on the world. None of it really makes too much sense, and the version I watched on Netflix didn't help. The pan-and-scan framing took away from what was actually some stunning visuals, and it seemed like there was some material edited out at various points in the film. However, the real standout element was the soundtrack/score by Tangerine Dream. Combined with Mann's often hallucinatory images, it gave off the vibe of a quintessential 80's music video. And while the story was lacking, the hypnotic music was able to keep me interested in what the movie was doing visually. Overall, there's not quite enough here to recommend for everyone. It should be an interesting watch for die-hard Michael Mann fans, though.

metalrage666 I originally saw this not long after this was released on VHS and I loved it ever since. Unfortunately it never got the appreciation it deserved, probably because it differs greatly from the book which made the movie a bit hard to follow.A contingent of Nazi soldiers are making their way through Romania to control a mountain pass just after the start of operation Barbarossa, which was the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The Germans hold up in an old citadel/keep at the edge of a small Romanian village.On entering the keep, the commander, Jurgen Prochnow, notices the design of the interior in how the stone is rough on the outside but smooth on the inside, as if it was built in reverse. Unknown to them, the keep is designed as a prison for an ancient entity, Molasar. There are a number of "T-shaped" crosses that line the walls identified as being made of nickel helping to keep Molasar in place.One night one of the crosses starts to glow and a couple of soldiers believe that the cross is made of silver. They dig it out of the wall and this reveals a narrow passageway that leads into an immense cavern below the keep. The soldiers have unwittingly released Molasar and over the course of several days more soldiers are found killed. The Germans believe that all this is from resistance or partisan activity and a detachment of Einsatzkommandos, led by Gabriel Byrne, arrives to deal with this new threat, executing villagers as a deterrent. To make matters more confusing for them, they find a message on the wall and the local priest convinces them to send for a Jewish professor, Ian McKellen, who is currently being held in a concentration camp.Molasar ends up killing 2 soldiers that try to rape the professors daughter and this results in an uneasy alliance between the demon and then professor, going so far as to cure the professor of his illness. Meanwhile a man called Glaeken, located in Greece is alerted to Molasar's freedom and he makes his way to Romania to try and stop him before he's powerful enough to escape the confines of the keep. He carries with him a lance with a headpiece that is the same as the crosses in the walls of the keep.Molasar tries to use the professor to remove one of the crosses and take it outside as this will enable him to be finally free of the keep, however he is confronted by the German soldiers and commandos who are no match for Molasar's power. All of them are killed. Glaeken arrives and forces the demon back into his stony prison much to the dismay of the professor. Glaeken sacrifices himself by using his body to replace the main seal to keep Molasar in the keep.I must say that I loved this movie. Yes the pace is considered a bit too slow for a traditional horror movie and there are parts that are confusing for some, but it's not a standard horror movie. Its a shame that for the low budget in which this was made, it didn't even manage to break even, despite the quality of actors, yet like a lot of movies of this calibre it has a strong cult following. The film was panned by critics and also the author of the book of the same name, but the unusualness of the film is what is really interesting. This is well worth a look but irritatingly this has never been released on DVD or BluRay as far as I know but can still be watched online.