# Movie ID: Nazis, castles, portal to hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333 "2007-12-27T00:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/1 "2007-12-27T00:16:40Z")
A scientist (or theologian?) and his daughter are being held captive by the Nazis (or Germans) in a spooky castle. There’s a portal to hell or something. Made in the '80s? ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/2 "2007-12-27T00:19:23Z")
[The Keep](http://imdb.com/title/tt0085780/) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/3 "2007-12-27T00:24:09Z")
That’s it! I thought of _Castle Keep_, but that wasn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/4 "2007-12-27T01:07:50Z")
(in)Famous for not being cleared for a DVD release (one of those tied up in litigation deals or somefink). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/5 "2007-12-27T01:46:15Z")
A film with a character even worse than the Nazis! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/6 "2007-12-27T01:56:45Z")
The book was very Lovecraftian, something that was dropped from the movie. It reminded me somewhat of the “Night Gallery” vignette “The Devil Is Not Mocked,” an earlier story about Germans regretting having commandeered a castle. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/7 "2007-12-27T03:31:34Z")
Until you mentioned the father daughter hostage thing, it actually sounded like Hellboy. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/8 "2007-12-27T16:31:51Z")
Very nice looking film. Decent Tangerine Dream soundtrack too. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/9 "2007-12-27T17:08:25Z")
I love this movie. Saw it in the theater. Scott Glenn is hot. The critter coming out of the depths toward the light? Very effective, and it probably didn’t cost a dime. I don’t know how it would look on TV, but on the big screen, it was scary as hell. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/10 "2007-12-27T17:52:41Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Scott Glenn is hot. [/QUOTE] Scott Glenn was looking _very_ old last time I saw him in something, which was playing Hilary Swank’s dad in the film “Freedom Writers”. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/11 "2007-12-27T18:38:47Z")
He looked old in 1983 too. Hell, he probably had lines on his face in third grade. But he was hot. There was some necking in that movie too. I love necking. Those were the good old days, when people necked before getting nekkid. Does anybody neck anymore? Does anybody even say “neck”? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/12 "2007-12-27T18:59:41Z")
I’m currently reading through F. Paul Wilson’s _Repairman Jack_ series, and loving it (when I manage to find all the books- I’m missing numbers three and seven). Anyway, he’s the guy who wrote _The Keep_. I seriously recommend him as an author. ---
**Author:** ![Nuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@Nuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuke)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/13 "2007-12-27T20:21:43Z")
This movie has all of the elements of a great movie: Nazis Supernatural stuff. At least that’s what the video store owner told me when I rented this mediocre movie about 15 years ago. It’s OK. Kind of dated today. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/14 "2007-12-28T04:21:27Z")
_very dated_ but kinda fun the last time i saw it. glenn was interviewed in starlog magazine about a gajillion years ago. iirc, he was quoted in the interview that the original sfx guy died before the really good stuff he’d planned for the movie’s Big Finish could be completed. ::sigh:: i’ve wondered about that ever since… 😃 repairman jack. 🙂 i wait for the movies to begin. or for wilson to finish another book so i can read it. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-nazis-castles-portal-to-hell/431333/15 "2007-12-28T06:04:48Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] The book was very Lovecraftian, something that was dropped from the movie. It reminded me somewhat of the “Night Gallery” vignette “The Devil Is Not Mocked,” an earlier story about Germans regretting having commandeered a castle. [/QUOTE] That’s a Manly Wade Wellman story (she says, having just re-read it). I had no idea it had been adapted for TV.