STRAIGHT FROM THE MANN

Nowadays Mann doesn’t say much about The

Keep but at the time of its release he was a little more vocal in his support for the surreal shocker. Speaking to Film Comment in December 1983, he said, “The idea of making this film within the genre of horror films appealed to me not at all.” Instead he insisted that he had created something “very dreamy, very magical, and intensely emotional.” Subtly alluding to some of the production troubles, Mann admitted that he “storyboarded everything. Then I threw it all away”, describing The Keep as “a reality that’s not part of everybody’s everyday reality; it’s a dream… a penetration of psychological realities.” No, Mann probably didn’t have a clue what to make of the final film either…