The Keep (1983) review

During World War II, German soldiers, led by Captain Klaus Woermann (Jürgen Prochnow), are ordered to protect a fortress in Romania but are getting slaughtered by a creature (Michael Carter) that lives in there - later, ruthless SS officer Erich Kaempffer (Gabriel Byrne) pops in to wipe out villagers, then Jewish scholar Dr. Cuza (Ian McKellen) and his daughter Eva (Alberta Watson) and a "traveler" named Glaeken (Scott Glenn) - who has glowing eyeballs and enjoys tantric sex - also show up.  Apparently, this ran into production hell as Paramount Pictures demanded recuts and it was trimmed to 96 minutes, but I'm not even sure if the extended footage can "fix" the hardly coherent storyline or cornball "fantasy" dialogue - the only aspects that make it semi-watchable are the (sometimes overbearing) Tangerine Dream score, a decent cast and the foggy sets.  As with so many broken-down failures, it's garnered a cult audience over time, but based on his responses in interviews I doubt Mann wants to have anything more to do with this project....