- Film Review
- Reviewed By Adrian Turner
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3 out of 5
In one of the weirdest Second World War movies ever made, a bunch of German soldiers bivouac in an old Romanian castle and get gruesomely decimated by some unseen, supernatural force. By turns chilling, stylish, portentous and just plain silly, Michael Mann's second feature was a box-office bomb that temporarily wrecked his cinema career. (He went back to television and created Miami Vice.) Gabriel Byrne as an SS officer with a serious haircut, and Ian McKellen as a mad professor, are worth the price of admission alone, however.
Plot Summary
Horror starring Scott Glenn and Alberta Watson. Romania in the Second World War: at a remote mountain castle, two evil forces clash - on the one hand the Nazi SS, and, on the other, an unseen power. A mysterious traveller arrives to do battle with both and to save the innocents caught between.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Glaeken Trismegestus
- Scott Glenn
- Eva
- Alberta Watson
- Woermann
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Father Fonescu
- Robert Prosky
- Raempffer
- Gabriel Byrne
- Dr Cuza
- Ian McKellen
- Alexandru
- Morgan Sheppard
- Tomescu
- Royston Tickner
Crew
- Director
- Michael Mann
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