| Special thanks should
go out to my recent insomniac activities and AMC's Fear Friday's for
bringing me across this movie. It was actually pretty good. I
had never even heard of it, but since I couldn't sleep and it was just
starting, I thought what the hell.
The movie starts out pretty slow, with a man and woman getting married
and moving into the husband's castle. It was pretty boring at first.
But about twenty or so minutes into the movie it starts to get pretty
good. The woman starts to see a severed hand around the castle, and
she also sees a man who's eyes appear to have been ripped out.
The acting isn't the best I've ever seen. It can be overly
dramatic at some points, and can be dull at key points in the movie as
well. The best performance in the movie for me was that of Peter
Cushing, who played the offbeat Dr. Pope. For some reason I just
really enjoyed his performance.
The directing is rather dull, mainly because Roy Baker directs the
movie very straight forward. It feels like he is afraid to do
anything fancy. Which kind of bugged me because there is a lot that
could have been done here to improve the films overall appearance.
Overall, with a creative story, which is kind of like Rosemary's Baby,
and some decent acting, especially on the part of Peter Cushing, I think
it is a pretty good movie. But if you are in the mood for something
fast pace, you better look else ware. |
