Maggers Wrote:Call me crazy, but after viewing the trailer, I rented "The Keep" last night. I saw the movie long ago and did not hate it.
I've watched the first 20 minutes, and so far, I find the score to be immensely annoying, more so than any score I've heard in a long time.
I'll post more after I've seen the whole movie.
****SPOILER ALERT FOR THE MOVIE, "THE KEEP"*****
OK, I just finished watching "The Keep." I must have been mighty stoned when I saw it the first time back in '83, because I thought it was just fine. If you're in an altered stated, I can see where the movie wouldn't grate on you so much.
The excessive use of slow motion is laughable. The slo-mo is used for no discernable reason except, perhaps, to clue us in to the fact that this is a fable by creating an artificial air of unreality.
It bears virutally no relation to the book, except for the use of the main characters and their names. But who those characters are, how they relate to one another, and their significance to the story, all this is completely absent. You're left wondering how it all hangs together. The answer...it doesn't. We don't know why anyone is doing anything in the movie.
It seems a very dated film, and I am not referring to the fact that it is a period piece which takes place 60 years ago. The manner in which it was shot, the special effects, the lighting, all seemed very .... '70's.
As a stand alone movie, not comparing it to its source, it is simply a horror film that does not work.
As an adaptation of FPW's brilliant book, it fails miserably. The movie has virtually none of the spirit of the book. It's a film about something else entirely.