#the keep

[spaghettibastard]

MOLASAR

#The Keep #Radu Molasar #underrated and betrayed movie

[talesfromthecrypts]

A devil? Now you listen to me! The devil in the Keep wears a black uniform and has a death's head in his cap, and calls himself a "Sturmbannführer"!

The Keep (1983) dir. Michael Mann

#the keep #filmedit #horroredit #filmgifs #mygifs #my disappointment when i found out the movie is indeed still only 720p on criterion #oh well we move on

[millionbackyard109]

#the keep

[389]

Last 4 watched - follow me on the boxd!

#letterboxd #movies #last 4 #watched #talk to me #sorcerer #they cloned tyrone #the keep #michael mann #william friedkin #rackaracka #john boyega

[ijustthinkevilunoisneat]

#evil uno #ethan page #mystery wrestling #the keep #aew #all elite wrestling #twitter #tweet

[aspirationalbrand]

alberta watson in the keep (1983)

#alberta watson #the keep #not a lick of sense to this one but her face card never declines

[jimsmovieworld]

THE KEEP- 1983 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nazis are stationed at a Romanian castle and accidentally unleash a slumbering ancient demon that starts to kill them off one by one....

Gabriel Byrne and Ian McKellan star.

Very cool! Love the look of the demon, the special effects and the setting of the film. Anytime you see "music by Tangerine Dream" in the credits you know your in for a treat.

Directed by Michael Mann.

#the keep #movie #film #movie review #horror #scifi #80s movie #cult movie

[codylabs]

Last week I was Bored At Work and was just recovering from a seasonal bought of writer's block, so I drew a few disjointed panels from a proposed comic about the Last War of Green Night.

It's a story that's majorly important to the lore of my universe, but which I've never yet put to paper. Massive TL;DR: when a powerful wizard visits the homeworld of the merfolk, they make war against it. They succeed in inventing the one weapon capable of harming it, but fail to kill it, and lose their home.

#the keep #scifi art #aliens #orion drive #greystartales #I love their orion drive battleships I may have to build one out of legos #whiteboard

[criterionfilms]

The Keep - A Lost Classic

This week our humble hosts are discussing Michael Mann’s The Keep, which hit Criterion Channel back in October. The Keep had a notorious production around its development and has since been unfortunately disowned by Michael Mann in spite of unique visuals and a compelling score from Tangerine Dream.

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#the keep #michael mann #criterion #criterion collection

[table-cat-games]

I can't believe there is a role playing game based on The Keep. The Keep is a horror movie by Micheal Mann, yes the guy that made Miami Vice what it was and also made movies like Heat.

And this movie that has a super complicated release history (which was in this weird limbo of almost lost). And a movie that Mann doesn't really talk about it, since it was a pretty big failure.

And Tangerine Dream did the score, yet it's really hard to get. And every version of The Keep features a different score. So yeah, it totally makes sense this movie that flopped would have an AD&D compatible role playing game associated with it.

#ttrpg #Dnd #Ad&d #The Keep #horror movies #1980s #Micheal mann

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/Starburst_Magazine_058_1983-06_Marvel-UK/mode/2up

#the keep #michael mann #horror cinema #tangerine dream

[rowshark]

#creepy #scary #horror #Horror Movies #terror #haunted #the keep

[ijustthinkevilunoisneat]

Uno is gonna break my brain someday with looking like that 🙈 but please support Mystery Wrestling and The Keep 💜

#bryce remsburg #evil uno #mystery wrestling #the keep #aew #all elite wrestling #twitter #tweet

[damienthepious]

every single fucking week im going to say again how jfucking much i hate this new editor its a NIGHTMAREEE

Knight of the Swamp (chapter 12)

[ch 1] [ch 2] [ch 3] [ch 4] [ch 5] [ch 6] [ch 7] [ch 8] [ch 9] [ch 10] [ch 11] [ao3] [etc]

Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast

Relationship: Sir Damien/Rilla, Lord Arum/Sir Damien/Rilla, Lord Arum & The Keep, Sir Damien & The Keep, Rilla & The Keep

Characters: Sir Damien, Rilla, Lord Arum, The Keep

Additional Tags: Second Citadel, Lizard Kissin’ Tuesday, (some characters tagged will not appear until later chapters!), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Established Relationship, Love Confessions, (for rilla&damien), Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, (for R&D and Arum), Dueling, Fealty Dynamics, Pre-Canon AND Alt-Canon at the same time!! fun!!!, Mira is not Queen yet, Power Imbalance, (in the arum/damien dynamic at least. rilla ain’t having it)

Summary: Perhaps the King should have known better than to force Sir Damien to choose between his heart and his oaths.

Chapter Summary: Distractions and Duties

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Lord Arum is, apparently, too busy to share any time with the new pair of humans in his domain for three full days after Damien's tour.

Or, possibly, he's avoiding them.

(Rilla thinks he's avoiding them.)

[read more on a03]

#ifucking HATE THE NEW EDITORRRR ITS WRITER POISON #second citadel #rad bouquet #lizard kissin' tuesday #amaryllis of exile #lord arum #sir damien #the keep #knight of the swamp

[horrororman]

The Keep was released on December 16, 1983.

#horror #fantasy

#horror #horror movies #horror movie #the keep

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/7/2022 - GOLEMANIA! PT 2: THE KEEP (1983)

It's hard to know what to say about Michael Mann's famously benighted World War II fantasy THE KEEP, a film whose tortured production history seems to get more attention than its actual content. At this point nobody needs me to attempt to describe the shooting delays that plagued it, nor the constant re-imagining of the monstrous villain, nor the funds Paramount withheld from its completion, nor their forced elimination of 114 minutes from Michael Mann's lost 210-minute cut. It's hard to say which is a greater loss, that of Mann's total vision, or that of the FX planned for the crippled grand finale, as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY alum Wally Veevers took those secrets with him to the grave midway through production. The currently available version of the film is marred by bad sound, a mutilated narrative, and some will say cheesy creature design. However, a growing number of others (myself included) will tell you that THE KEEP remains beautiful and hypnotic, perhaps even because of—not in spite of—its dreamy anti-logic.

The plot, such as it is, involves a deployment of Nazi soldiers occupying a mysterious mountain citadel in the Carpathians. When some of these interlopers steal a silver seal out of its walls, they unwittingly unleash a demonic entity who begins to tear through the Nazi ranks. The mystified officers assume this bloodbath is effected by partisan activity in the surrounding village, and the resulting conflict between the humans disguises the existence of the creature, known as Molasar, as it grows in strength. Meanwhile, its activation has awakened an angelic being, Glaeken Trismegestus (Scott Glenn, sporting a pair of violet contacts that remind me of certain Barbie-inspired action figures I had as a kid), who soon arrives to put the monster back in storage before it can escape out into the world at large.

Even were the unnatural gaps in the narrative filled in, THE KEEP might still have the strange problem of lacking a clear hero. The film is populated largely by Nazis, and even the conflicted Jürgen Prochnow isn't much help to the side of good. The other non-Nazis squabble amongst themselves about whether to escape, or wreak a messy vengeance in cooperation with Molasar. (I feel really weird saying this, but the great Ian McKellen as the creature's embittered familiar, half-buried in old age makeup and forcing an "old man" voice, is the worst thing in the film) Molasar bears a tempting resemblance to the Golem, a powerful supernatural protector from Jewish folklore; it is outraged when it learns of the Nazi genocide and uses the words "my people" to describe their victims, although the exact origins of the being itself never become clear. The closest thing we have to a protagonist is Glaeken Trismegestus (whose name presumably refers to the syncretic Hellenic deity Hermes Trismegistus), who is so inhuman that it's hard to relate to him--and let's be honest, it's disappointing when he explains that Molasar is not an avenger who will put a stop to the Holocaust, which it seems genuinely upset about, but a force of abject destruction that must be contained.

When a story is missing a heroic center of gravity, it can be hard to say what it is really about--what are its moral or spiritual motivations. The strongest piece of direction we get here is actually from Jürgen Prochnow, who identifies the Keep as a place that brings primordial emotional material to the surface, defying the training of society and spreading madness. In the same fevered monologue, he further identifies the Nazi scourge in a similar way, as an uncontrolled expression of the worst elements in human nature. I suppose that, along these lines, Molasar is meant to be the embodiment of sinful wrath, a morally inferior, uncivilized response to adversity. It all sounds a little pretentious on paper, but the fact that THE KEEP is more about the conflict between archetypal psychic energies than it is about the trials of individual people may contribute to its unique dreaminess. When the baffled Sturmbannführer (Gabriel Byrne) asks Molasar where it comes from, the creature replies, "I am from you."

But, let us be real, THE KEEP's true motivation is aesthetic, and there it succeeds in spite of the many torments it faced in production. The gauzy shadows, lasers cutting through fog, Tangerine Dream's alien score, and the fabulous Molasar should still hold the attention even of viewers who don't care to deal with its philosophic underpinnings. It is painful to know that Wally Veevers may have intended to give us a 2001-worthy finale, but what remains in its place is not too shabby--certainly nothing worth rejecting the film over. If nothing else, THE KEEP remains a treat for the senses. And it would have given Carl Jung a boner.

#blogtober 2022 #blogtober #the keep #1983 #michael mann #tangerine dream #adaptation #f. paul wilson #horror #fantasy #war #period piece #golem #monster #scott glenn #ian mckellen #gabriel byrne #wally veevers #jurgen prochnow