I watched Michael Manns The Keep last night after recording from film4 a few weeks ago.
Not sure what to make of it. Clearly it's a film that had a lot of tampering, it seemed quite incoherent in parts with it's style wandering from subtle eerie imagery to full on creature feature. While I appreciate it isn't it felt quite Lovecraftian as well. The first half hour is the best part of the film before it started to fall apart. That said I'd love to see a revised directors cut or even just the rumoured 4 hour (someone correct me if that's wrong, I'm going from memory here) version that Mann originally filmed.
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