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From: keithl@vice.UUCP (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: The Keep
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Date: Tue, 20-Dec-83 17:49:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 20 17:49:35 1983
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  I read the book by F. Paul Wilson, and agree with Jef Pozkanzer about
it's quality (7 on 0-9 scale).

[Quick recap:  German soldiers occupy small keep in 1941 Romania.  Evil
being is released, attacks soldiers.  Germans call in Jewish(!) historian
to help them (guess who he actually helps).  Apocalyptic battle.]

  I saw the movie, however, and rate it at 2 on the same scale.  
  This movie was badly EDITED.   There were scenes where the sound was so
poorly mixed the actors couldn't be heard.  The lighting was bad for some
scenes (did they ever hear of retakes?).  The fragments of the plot
presented might be incomprehensible to someone who hadn't recently read the
book.  Some of the special effects were good, and the opening was OK, so
the movie isn't a zero.
  The reason was clear at the end;  the copyright belongs to a movie
equipment leasing company!  I hypothesize that the producers ran out of
money, and the leasing company patched together what had been filmed so
far.  Too bad, it could have been a fine film...
-- 
Keith Lofstrom
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