Product Details

• Actors: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky
• Directors: Michael Mann
• Writers: Michael Mann, F. Paul Wilson
• Producers: Colin M. Brewer, Gavin MacFadyen, Gene Kirkwood, Hawk Koch, Richard Brams
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300214346
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,348 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good gothic thriller., March 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Keep [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Keep is, as far as I know released in at least two different versions, one with a different ending. Anyway, it's a very good movie directed by Michael Mann. It was released in 1983 and was technically advanced for the age. The cinematography is outstanding, the director has made a great job. Good acting by Sir Ian McKellen, Scott Glenn, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky and Gabriel Byrne. It's a movie that really puts you right in the action, and I regard it as one of my top 10 movies of all time. I have to mention the soundtrack as well. Composed and performed by Tangerine Dream, the German electronic group. It is nothing short of a masterpiece. I can understand why people who have reviewed this movie before me have had trouble finding the soundtrack on album, since up until today it has only been released in 150 copies.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cult Classic, October 29, 2007

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This review is from: The Keep [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a Cult Classic, the Atmosphere, the locations, the acting, The Story. I love it, I just wish they would put it out on DVD. Those that criticize the special effects, I mean come on... it was made in 1983.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Keep : An Immersive Experience, July 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Keep [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Keep is a masterpiece of sound and vision that operates at many, many levels. The film demands that the viewer consider the significance of faith, the meaning and source of power, and the role of man. These questions are portrayed through Ian McKlellan's brilliant but physically crippled Jewish professor; by Gabriel Byrne's ruthless Nazi; by Jurgen Prochnow' humane German regular; by Robert Prosky's devout but helpless othrodox priest; by the evil in all men (however one chooses to define that evil) personified through the being held captive within the Keep; and by Scott Glenn's solitary, ageless sentinel that abandons his mortal lover to pursue his own supernatural fate. The film reminds us that epic battles such as that fought within the Keep are struggles of philosophy and faith, as much as might. The visual imagery, and the compelling Tangerine Dream score, unforgettably bind each and every scene in this film, from the dark, wet Carpathian forest, to the man-made war machines whirring towards the Keep and their supernatural fate, to the white-washed cottages and fishing wharves of Pireaus, to the hundreds of silver crosses imbedded into the stone walls of the fortress, and finally, to the barren, cavernous heart of the Keep that has contained the evil in men for so many millenia. Sit back, look, listen and immerse yourself in an environment unlike any other ever created.