The Keep Page #3

Synopsis: Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep to vanquish the force. As soldiers are killed, a Jewish man and his daughter (who are both knowledgeable of the keep) are brought in to find out what is happening.
Genre: Horror
Director(s): Michael Mann
Production: Paramount
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
R
Year:
1983
96 min
937 Views


If I can leave this place

-Why couldn't you?

because an object of mine

the origin of my power

must be removed from the Keep

and hidden in these mountains

and kept safe 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?

Yes

-Mihail,

-I'm not leaving yet

-did you get Eva out?

-Eva..Eva is at the Inn

There is something here,

a power

this power is our salvation

Power is God!

And the messiah,

his immortal son

who took flesh of the holy

mother and ever

virgin mary, And I...

I have been right

And you...

you Theodore Cuza

you have been wrong

I was right in my simple faith

I was right

Evil comes from the acts

between man and man

it wears a swatzika and

it believes in black dreams

you know this

What's happening to you?

Stay here,

stay here with your

daughter and burn

with the others

Burn with the misfits,

the gypsies,

the heratics,

-I won't lift a finger to help you

-Mihail

Ha, Monster!

Burn in Hell!

And the dead and the glory,

and judge both the living

and the dead,

and deliver of the grace!

Pray for them

Mihail!

I never thought

I'd see you alive again

-Now we can get out

-Not yet

-Mihail, told me

you didn't leave

-you alright

Mihail's gone crazy

-What's happened to this place

-I can't help Mihail

What's happened is...

that what was repressed

within the Keep

is spreading into the village

Who are you?

What do you know about it?

This is...

I know that you have

bound yourself to him

that you've agreed

carry the talisman out

-It's the source of the power

It is not his, it's what keeps

him inside the walls

and if you carry it out, he will be

released into the world of men

what's happening in the world is

worse than anything he could do

-He is the same

-look at him

-what, it's my body,

I don't give a damn about me,

I'm not doing this for me

That's why he picked you

only someone uncorrupted could

even get near the Talisman

-Don't listen to this

-Stop this..you stop it

-What are you doing

-let's just get out of here

Don't take it out

-What do you want?

-there's a stranger at the Inn

he asks questions

I believe he's connected to

the people who pay

for the keeps maintenance

Arrest the man,

bring him to the Keep

This place, seems

to agree with you

you look...

healthier

This place has it's strong points

You're part of this

Aren't you?

Tell me!

tell me

The talisman that holds

him inside is mine

I have been here for ages

watching..

and guarding against

what is happening now

He is being released

I don't understand

I have come to destroy him

Now...

and it may be too late

I will end it

What ends?

When he goes..I go

What?

Then why?

why did you come to me?

Become my lover

out of a dream

To touch

as only mortal men can do

You are coming to the Keep

for interrogation..now

Stay here

No!

What's all the shooting

in the village huh?

-A civilian being interrogated

resisted arrest

-another civilian

the courageous commander

again is victorious

Woermann

Woermann!

I will not!

you will..nothing

You will... die

-All of us will die

-you're falling apart Woermann

you despise our ruthlessness

but you do not grab history

by the throat

and write the next

1000 year future

without brutality

and courage!

-Fairy tales Kaempffer

romantic fairy tales,

you tell yourself,

then dress up in black and silver,

so you can look in the mirror

and maybe believe them

Eich! Hiel Furror!

A year and a half ago,

SS commander executed men,

women and children

children for gods sake

Ruthlessness

Courage

How many times in this Keep

have you made your bed?

Don't you talk to me

about courage

were you with the German

anti-facist fighting us in Spain? No!

Did you stop

commadore posnack, No

you have a debilitated

german disease, Woermann

Sentimental talk

It allows you to feel sensitive

superior, and yet safe,

because you take no action

your sentimental suffering

makes me sick

for once, your right Kaempffer

I'm only half a man

all that we are is coming out

here in this Keep

-Ha Ha Ha

-the man sees the truth

and what truth do you see?

what are you discovering

about yourself, Kaempffer...Huh?

I murder all these people

therefore I must be powerful!

and you smash them down

because only that raises you up

it's a psychotic fantasy to escape

the weakness and disease you

sense at the core of your soul

you have scooped the most easy

psyches out of the german gutter

you have released the foulness

that dwells in all mans minds

you have infected millions

with your twisted fantasies

and from the millions

of diseased mentalities

that worship your twisted cross

what monstrosity has been

released on this Keep

Who are you meeting

Kaempffer?

in the granite corridors

of this Keep?

Yourself

Jesus, protect me

protect me

What are you?

where do you come from?

Where am I from?

I am...

from you

Carry it from this place

take it out of here

There's no one left to stop you

Eva! I have it!

take it back

it belongs to Glaehic Mahistis

No, this is power!

It's corrupted

It's changing your soul

take it back

No!

-No!

-Get out of my way!

Kill her!

and take the talisman

out of here

Who are you,

that I have to prove myself

to you by killing my child

Obey me!

Or you will return to the

diseased state I found you in

And I'll slay both of you!

If this is yours, as you said

then you take it out of the Keep

You can't..

then this isn't yours

and the Keep is a prison

to contain you

And you have lied,

exploited, deceived

And you are the same

evil outside this place

so you prove yourself to me!

You take it out of here

You yourself

Take it!!

Take it!!

You

Take your father

and get out of this place

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Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. more…

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