As I scrolled through the Jesusflix offerings the other day, I came upon this gem and thought “A Michael Mann movie with Scott Glenn , Ian McKellen , and Jürgen Prochnow ? How have I never even heard of this before?” The short answer to that question is that The Keep is truly awful. Mann must have learned much in between this and Manhunter , such as how to construct a decent story. Taking place in a Romanian village in 1941, the Keep is a mysterious fortress of some sort that some German soldiers decide is a good place to hole up in. Even though they are specifically warned by the caretaker not to molest any of the silver crosses embedded in the walls, two soldiers unearth a passage to the walled-off inside of the structure only to have their faces blown off. Meanwhile, another group of German soldiers lead by Major Kaempffer ( Gabriel Byrne ), this time wearing the SS armbands which remind me I probably need to pay more attention to history, arrive after the death of many of the