The Keep

The Keep, Michael Mann’s heavily cut and disowned adaptation of F. Paul Wilson’s 1981 novel, was released on this day in 1983. Taking and running with the idea of Nazis having to fight a monster just about as bad, it features a heroic immortal among its protagonists before Highlander made that a thing and is the other sort of vampire movie from the 1980s with a Tangerine Dream soundtrack besides Near Dark. Even without all this it would be pretty odd.

Never released here on disc, at least nowadays you can get it streaming.

Also oddly, Mayfair Games produced a boardgame (with a single villain versus multiple heroes mechanic later seen in the likes of Fury of Dracula) and an AD&D adventure for it. The advenure was co-written by future World Of Darkness writer Daniel Greenberg, so could we add this to the list of influences for the ancient mythic origins of the Kindred and the Tzimisces in particular in Vampire: The Masquerade?