This section needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – ( April 2019) The movie had a very troubled production. Shooting started in September 1982 and lasted for 13 weeks. Filming was very grueling, and once principal photography was finished, additional re-shoots were done which extended the filming for a total of 22 weeks. The look of the main villain of the movie, Molasar, was changed many times during filming because Michael Mann wasn't sure how he wanted him to look. There was even a mechanical figure built which was to be used in the scene where Molasar talks with Dr Cuza for the second time, but that design was changed to a man in a suit once Mann decided to film the scene differently. Two weeks into post-production, visual effects supervisor Wally Veevers died, which caused enormous problems because nobody knew how he planned to finish the visual effects scenes in the movie, especially the ones that were planned for the original ending.

According to Mann, he had to finish 260 shots of special effects himself after Veever's death.Because of this, several new endings had to be filmed long after the crew and original cinematographer had left the production. Originally Mann had two ideas for the film's climax, one with a battle between Glaeken and Molasar on top of the keep, and one taking place inside the keep.The original climax that Mann chose involved Glaeken and Molasar in an epic effects-laden battle on top of the keep tower, ending with Glaeken opening an energy portal that blasts forth from the ground of the keep. It was to be some type of dimensional portal, which probably would have had effects similar to the star gate in Kubrick's (a film Veevers also worked on). The two were to fall from the keep wall and get sucked into the portal and tumble through a void. After that, Glaeken would materialize in the cavern below the keep by a pool and be reawakened as a mortal man.With the constant production extensions and the film already well over budget, Paramount refused to pay for the filming of the additional footage needed for this finale, so the simplified ending Mann put together for the released film was a weak, somewhat unsatisfactory compromise.The 210 minute cut Michael Mann's original cut of the movie was 210 minutes long.

Theatrical trailer for Michael Mann's 1983 film, The Keep.

He was only allowed to have a two-hour-long movie. Test screenings of the two-hour cut were not positive so Paramount cut the movie down to 96 minutes, against Mann's wishes. These last-minute cuts resulted in many plot holes, continuity mistakes, very obvious 'jumps' in soundtrack and scenes, and bad editing issues. Even the sound mixing of the movie could not be finished properly because of Paramount's interference which is why every version of the movie suffers from bad sound design. The original June 3 1983 release date was pushed back to December 16 due to the many problems in post-production.The original happier ending, which had Eva finding Glaeken inside the keep after he defeated Molasar and Eva and her father leaving Romania by boat with Glaeken, was completely cut out by Paramount in order for the movie to have a shorter running time. Removal of these scenes made no sense because numerous stills of this ending were shown in many movie magazines when a movie was to be released and even cast and crew members, including Mann, said in interviews that the movie had a happy ending. Part of the 'happy' ending, in which Eva goes into the keep and finds Glaeken, was used in 1980s TV versions of the film.

Main article:The theme and was composed. The band previously worked with on his first theatrical film. The score to The Keep is primarily made up of moody soundscapes, as opposed to straightforward music cues, composed by Tangerine Dream. Most notably, an ambient cover of 's ' was featured during the end sequence of the film.

Additionally, Tangerine Dream's arrangement of the song 'Gloria' from Mass for Four Voices by can also be heard in the film.Due to rights issues, the version of the film that is currently available on streaming media sites contains a different score than its original release. A limited run of 150 CDs were sold at a concert by the group in the UK in 1997, and soon announced that the album would be available for general release in early 1998, but legal issues with the film studio stopped the release. The full score can be found in the laserdisc and VHS versions of the film.Parts of the soundtrack can also be found on the album from 1982.Performance artist and musician also composed a rejected score for the film which later became the basis for material on her album.Release The film, extensively cut by the studio from its original 3.5-hour runtime to just over one and a half hours, was given a theatrically in the United States by on 16 December 1983. It grossed $4,218,594 at the domestic box office. A board game based on the film was designed by James D. Griffin and published.

Under their label, Mayfair Games also produced the adventure based on the film.The film was released on. To date, the film has not been officially released on or in any country, but is available for purchase on, as well as streaming on and available on Netflix (UK and Ireland), streaming with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack. On January 20, 2020 the film was officially released on DVD in Australia by the Via Vision Entertainment label. This Australian DVD release is in 2.35:1 aspect ratio and includes the original trailer as a special feature.Reception. This section needs expansion. You can help. ( November 2014)The Keep has received generally negative reviews, with a rating of 40%.Michael Nordine in the stated The Keep 'can’t always keep its many moving parts in lockstep, what with its hinted-at mythos that obscures more than it elucidates and its cast of enigmatic characters whose precise dealings with one another are never made entirely clear'.

However Nordine praised Mann's direction, saying it showed 'Mann's. Rare ability to elevate ostensibly schlocky material into something dark and majestic'., film reviewer for the, rated The Keep two out of four stars, complaining that the Tangerine Dream soundtrack tended to overwhelm the dialogue. Siskel wrote, 'Stay away from The Keep, one of the most inaudible movies ever made. Oh, sure, you can look at the pictures, but without the dialogue it's going to be most difficult to figure what's going on'.Writing for the, film reviewer praised the movie, calling it 'visually spectacular' and 'mesmerising from the opening moments'. ' The Keep is the sort of movie I expect to see in one of the big cinema centres, being fed to the masses raised on Spielberg and spectacle', Eisenhuth wrote in her review.has publicly expressed his distaste for the film version, writing in the short story collection The Barrens (and Others) that it is 'Visually intriguing, but otherwise utterly incomprehensible.'

In the foreword of the graphic novel adaptation, he expressed disappointment, claiming to have created the comic, 'Because I consider this visual presentation of THE KEEP my version of the movie, what could have been. What should have been.' It's been mentioned that Michael Mann disowned the movie but in a 2009 interview he said that the production design and the form of the film were in better shape than the content, which is why he likes it for those aspects.Although a financial and critical failure at the time of its release, The Keep gained a strong fan following and is considered by some to be a cult classic. Fans of the movie have made petitions for release of the original cut and for the movie to finally get a DVD/Blu-ray release.A documentary conceived in 2011 and entitled 'A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's The Keep', claims that it will offer production history, interviews, and other info on the film. An initial crowd-funding campaign for the documentary did not reach its final goal, although additional funding was raised, and the documentary's producers predicted project completion by the end of 2016. Various funding and production delays moved the documentary completion to end of 2018 and early 2019. To date, the documentary has not presented any material to the public outside of a trailer.On Feb 12, 2016, at BAM, an Internet fan question asked whether Mann had plans to re-release his 1983 sci-fi horror film.

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