The Keep Notes & Spoilers

Here are my notes, as taken as I watched the film.

-The Management

The Keep notes

Video a bit grainy (could be source material)

Gorgeous scenery (couldn't tell if they were mattes or real), great sets

The entire look of the Keep, inside and out, is ridiculously awesome. Nicely Lovecraftian.

cinematography is very nice- consistent gloomy, gritty feel

sounds level is iffy- up and down from dialogue, background, and FX sounds.

music (Tangerine Dream) had a nice spooky, synth feel to it.

great makeup all around

Nazis (led by the Captain) roll into a Romanian town in the mountains- said town has an ancient

Keep during WWII

(Quick side note the Nazi bosses talk about how Moscow is going to fall just like France. Oops)

Interesting Roman Orthodox (I think) imagery

Nazis settle in, and immediately try stealing the nickel crosses, since they think they're silver

Dude- metal does not glow unless it's radioactive!

And they breach the inner wall, and climb into the equivalent of an air duct. Morons

Whoa. There is no way that can be contained within the Keep. Yeah, Lovecraftian.

Well, at least you got 1/2 his body back

That's some "raiders of the lost ark" shit right there

why are they firing their guns into the air

why does scott glenn have glowing eyes (guess- mystical good guy who keeps guard)

Glaken travels to the Keep

turns out 5 men died last night, mysteriously

Worse Nazis (SS?) , led by the Major, show up, and are complete dicks-

they randomly machine gunning down townspeople and take hostages. Capt. objects.

Capt. yells at Major- "there are no partisans!" (correct, just a demon)

Let's bring in the Jewish professor from the concentration camp!

Here comes Glakey, with shiny eyes!

Prof translates spooky glyphs

Hey, the Capt. has some morals/conscience (will try to get prof and daughter out)

cool- rapist nazis' heads explode via demon, and saves the girl

sweet VFZ

well, I guess the demon didn't believe him, or maybe it did. he's healed?

some kind of 'good' demon?

Daughter goes to inn, gets frisky with Glaken

The Glakster doesn't have a reflection?

Odd sex scenic with crucification overtone at the end (huh?)

We get to see the demon! Not bad!

Turns out the demon is Jewish. Interesting. Why do I think he's lying?

Cute puppy!

No, the priest just dissed my gypsy ancestors!

Random horse

The Doc rats out Glaken

Glaken gets his sword/pole ready and tells Eva he's the anti-demon

Neat, Glaken bleeds fluorescent green blood!

Nice speech El Capitan! And you're dead.

And all hell breaks loose.

Wow, demon boy melts Nazis into metal and walls nicely. Wonder if the fog is his?

Sorry, Major, shiny thing won't help you. Splat.

Stupid Prof is looking for the talisman to free demon

Now he's listening to the demon to take it outside the walls so it can leave.

Glakey is still alive!

Nice music, very uplifting, yet very wrong

Wow, awesome cave- but where did it come from?

Flashlight cross of good(?)- I guess that's the talisman

Getting good now, Glaken is getting his (now purple glowing(?)) pole

Eva confronts pops, tells him to not take it out

Demon says "kill her", but can't, stands up to demon

Ah, prof finally figured it out- demon boy is evil; just a tad too late

And prof is old/sick again due to demon lightning

Glaken to the rescue- neat, talisman fits onto the end of the sword

SWORD LASER BOLTS! GLOWING CROSSES!

Fight fight fight!

Purple pole bolt

Glaken sucked into the Keep with the demon; kinda sucks

Eva is a tad upset, and looks dang scary

At least the townspeople survived

The end