Michael Mann has been on our radar recently.  We wrote an article about his movies on the occasion of his birthday (here) and also wrote a review of his new movie Public Enemies (here). 

Now the British Film Insttute is running two screenings of his rarely-seen early movie The Keep.  If you want to see what the director of modernist thrillers like Heat and Miami Vice does with Carpathian castles, demons and Nazis then you can get tickets here.  I have seen The keep and it is an interesting movie, with some truly evil moments.  Even at this early stage, Mann’s stylistic vision was individual enough to stand out and make this a very different horror movie.  It also has some bravura acting from Scott Glenn and Jurgen Prochnow. 

Scene from The Keep, directed by Michael Mann