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Two different photos showing a shirtless Glaeken lying on the ground with Eva in the background. It was borrowed from rock band The Who, who used in their concerts. The exact same blue fanned laser effect was used in the egg chamber scene of Ridley Scott's film Alien in 1979, also filmed at Shepperton Studios. Lasers, now commonplace, were still very rare and expensive in 1982. The light barrier effect was created with a green/blue argon laser and a diffraction grating to fan the beam. According to Actor Jürgen Prochnow, Michael Mann had an interest in restoring this scene to the film back in 2008. Shots of the optimistic ending of The Keep filmed at Shepperton Studios, removed at Paramount Pictures insistence, but shown in press release photos, magazines, and some television broadcasts. There are also photos of a shirtless Glaeken laying on the ground in Molasar's cavern with the blue laser over him, possibly from another version of the alternate ending that was filmed. One of the cavern photos was even given to Starfix magazine for their cover story on The Keep in 1983, so clearly the original ending was still in the film at the time the marketing materials were distributed. The press photos and press kit for The Keep mention and include photos (shown below) of Eva kneeling over Glaeken's body in the cavern. The press kit for the film also mentions another scene shot in Spain, confirmed by actress Alberta Watson in an interview, that would have been "the final sequence of the picture, featuring Glaeken, Eva, and Kuzar" leaving Romania on a boat together (Cuza is spelled Kuzar in the press press Kit). He has seemingly transformed from a supernatural being into a mortal man, who can now 'touch as only mortal men can do', freeing him to live a mortal life with Eva. In a scene earlier in the film, Glaeken had no reflection in a mirror, but he now sees his own reflection in the pool of water. There she finds Glaeken's dead and smoking body on the slate stone ground beside a pool of water, with a blue light barrier separating him from the air above. As this is happening, Eva is shown making a long journey down into the cavern below the keep as an enigmatic version of Walking in the Air is performed by Tangerine Dream. Glaeken and Molasar are shown falling through a black void, with Galeken beginning to smoke and catch on fire.
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Instead she walks back into the keep, beckoned by Glaeken's voice calling to her, presumably in her mind. In the televised ending I saw in the mid 1990's there is no freeze frame on Eva. The original draft of the script had no happy ending, but ended more like the released version of the film. According to special effects workshop supervision Bob Keen, Mann shot the ending at least 10 times, having the crew rebuild the keep set over and over each time. This makes sense if you watch the original ending (one of them, anyway) shown in some television broadcast versions, which is a lovely and haunting finale. Before the film was finished he stated in a Film Comment interview by Harlan Kennedy that the film would be "uplifting in the end", and when referring to the film as a fable and a fairy tale, as opposed to myth, that fairy tales always had an optimistic ending.
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Last update February 2020ĪLTERNATE ENDINGS - As mentioned, the ending of the released film was not the ending Mann intended. Written by Kit Rae (and friends) in 2005. Strange Obsessions for an Obscure 1983 Supernatural Horror Film