Review – The Keep

Nazis invading Romania unleash an evil even worse than themselves, if such a thing can be imagined. Before all the killing ends, Scott Glenn (in funky blue contact lenses) must battle a big, beefy demon that’s sort of a combination of a golem and the Devil, with the fate of the world naturally hanging in the balance. Jurgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne and Ian McKellen round out the ensemble of under-cast, craggy, stone-faced men. What should have been a better film is set back a bit by an unlikely source of trouble: the director. Michael Mann defined a lot of the “Eighties Look,” and he’s up to his usual visual and musical tricks here. But somehow the stuff that worked so well in 1980s Miami seems a little out of place in Eastern Europe in 1941. Mildly amusing