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Best Horror Film | 1984
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,661,757 USD
Director Michael Mann's original cut of the film ran three and a half hours.
The main set of the film was built in a disused abandoned former slate quarry at Glyn Rhonwy near Llanberis in North Wales. Some interiors of "The Keep" were filmed inside the natural stonework of the Llechwedd Slate Caverns near the historic mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, Wales. Michael Mann once described the set by saying: "It's a black monumental structure that might have been built by a medieval Albert Speer."
Michael Mann once described this film as: "A fairy story for grown-ups. Fairy tales have the power of dreams, from the outside. I decided to stylize the art direction and photography extensively, but use realistic characterization and dialogue."
The writer of the original novel, F. Paul Wilson, was so unimpressed by Michael Mann's adaptation of his work, that he wrote a short story called "Cuts", in which a writer puts a voodoo curse on a director, who has mangled his work.
While it was released on VHS and LaserDisc, it has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray. It has been noted that Paramount was going to release it on DVD in 2004, but two reasons have stopped them from doing so. First, the studio wasn't able to obtain the rights of the soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. Second, Michael Mann, who has disowned this movie, forced the studio not to release it. It is currently available on DVD, as of May 1, 2017.
"Major Kaempffer: [frightened] What are you? Where do you come from? Molasar: Where am I from? I am... from YOU!"
"[Molasar appears and talks to the frightened Dr. Cuza] Molasar: You have... death around you. Dr. Cuza: Your hands? [points at Molasar's powerful hands that touched him last time and healed him] Molasar: No. Dr. Cuza: Then, what you sense is my fate in a death camp? Molasar: A place where people gather to die? Dr. Cuza: A place where people are murdered! Molasar: [loud] My people are murdered? Dr. Cuza: Yes! And others, from all over Europe! Molasar: [angry] Who does this? Dr. Cuza: Their leader... in Berlin. And the soldiers in black. Molasar: [screams] I WILL DESTROY THEM! I will consume their lives... Dr. Cuza: When could you do this? Molasar: When I am complete. In two nights. If... I can leave this place. Dr. Cuza: Why couldn't you? Molasar: Because an object of mine, the origin of my power, must be removed from the Keep and hidden in these mountains and kept save from people here... and from anyone who may come here. It must be done by someone I can trust... like you. Only then can I leave the Keep and destroy the soldiers in black and their leaders. Will you carry this object... out of here... for me? [Molasar touches Dr. Cuza on the shoulder like a friend] Dr. Cuza: Yes."
