Keep, The | VSR Limited Edition | 4K UHD+Blu-ray

In Michael Mann's fifteen feature film career spread out over six different decades, The Keep stands alone. A war movie, a horror movie, a fantasy, Mann reached well outside of his neon soaked crime cinema toolbox to craft this strange piece of Hollywood lore.

I wouldn't go so far as to call what came out the other side a failure. The Keep is a visionary film unlike any other. But it's hardly the film Mann had hoped for, and the limits of his ambition are clear throughout. 

Editing and storytelling suffer, effects were seriously compromised by the untimely passing of visual effects supervisor Wally Veevers. What survived is still a fascinating vibe. Something very nearly sublime, while at other times hardly feeling like a finished film.

Special Features (via vinegarsyndrome.com)

• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
• Commentary track with Film Historian Matthew Aspery Gear
• "Out of the Darkness" (7 min) - an interview with producer Gene Kirkwood
• "Something Is Murdering My Men" (24 min) - an interview with The Keep author F. Paul Wilson
• "What He Left Unfinished" (6 min) - an interview with VFX producer Peter Kuran
• "An Evil Most Ancient" (24 min) - an interview with make-up effects designer Nick Maley
• "Other Sounds for Other Worlds" (11 min) - an interview with co-composer Johannes Schmoelling
• "I, Molasar" (25 min) - an interview with actor Michael Carter
• Still gallery
• Original trailer
• TV spot
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• 40-page booklet with new essays by Bilge Ebiri and Caroline Golum, plus a 1983 interview with Michael Mann (exclusive to the limited slipcase edition)
• English SDH subtitles