The Attic/Crawlspace (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
by George Edwards
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Actor: Dan Campbell (III), Fern Barry, Frances Bay, Mark Andrews, Patrick BrennanDirector: George Edwards
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 181 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Attic/Crawlspace (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Movie Review: There Are Places In Your Home Where Only Demons Dare To Venture
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a superb double feature from MGM. Both films have been expertly restored to their original theatrical presentation of 1.85:1; the picture and audio are nearly perfect. Unfortunately, only "Crawlspace" has a theatrical trailer and neither one has commentary. However, English subtitles have been gratefully included for us hearing impaired.
Both films involve demented men who abuse women. In "The Attic," Wendell (Ray Milland of Roger Corman's "The Premature Burial") is perhaps the greatest abuser. He psychologically abuses his own daughter Louise (Carrie Snodgress of "The Fury"); he cold calculatingly takes everything away from her until she has only him to rely upon for support. The viewer will feel great sympathy for Louise and deep hatred for her father. Both Snodgress and Milland give excellent, believable performances that will keep you spellbound until you learn the secret in "The Attic." Note: If you like Milland, check him out in MGM's "Frogs" where he portrays another cantankerous, demanding cripple; in "Frogs," the members of his wealthy family are dispatched in horrible, creative means by the local wildlife.
"Crawlspace" is an excellent slasher flick. The insane Dr. Gunther (expertly portrayed by European film legend Klaus Kinski) owns an apartment building in which he is spying upon, torturing, and murdering his female tenants and their friends. His father was a Nazi who invented torture machines. Dr. Gunter writes in his journal that he is addicted to killing. Most of his time is spent in the attic where his sole companion is Martha, a young woman whose tongue he cut out; he keeps her caged and feeds her barely enough food to survive. He also like to crawl through the ventilation ducts and spy on his tenants. This film has a great piano score provided by Pino Donaggio who also scored the supernatural horror masterpiece "Don't Look Now." "Crawlspace" was made in Italy and has the look and feel of an Italian giallo (mystery), but we know who the killer is. However, will anyone be able to stop him?
This is one of my favorite MGM Midnite Movies Double Features. How sad that, at the time of this review, it is out of print. Hopefully, MGM, or someone else, will re-release both films. "Crawlspace" definitely needs to remain in print. I love its trailer and its tagline: "Between the wall and Hell . . . Crawlspace." This is a creepy slasher flick that I highly recommend to all serious horror fans.
Summary of The Attic/Crawlspace (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
A double dose of delirium awaits you on this demented DVD! Taking her Diary of a Mad Housewife acclaim to effective extremes, Carrie Snodgress is disturbingly convincing in The Attic (1980), a morbid slice of gothic pie in which she plays a dowdy librarian, obsessively grieving 19 years after the disappearance of her picture-perfect boyfriend. This prolonged sadness is aggravated by her apparently disabled father (Ray Milland), who dominates her life with such abusive bitterness that she descends even deeper into tortured desperation. What does she discover in the attic? We're not telling, but suffice it to say Daddy's evil goes beyond expectations! Directed with earnest compassion for its damaged wallflower, The Attic is wretched psychodrama at its most bizarre.On the flipside, Crawlspace (1986) is grade-Z pulp for those who take perverse delight in the derangement of Klaus Kinski, here playing a suicidal heir to the Third Reich, continuing his Nazi reign of terror as the voyeuristic landlord in a building full of unsuspecting young females. Drawing on his alleged hatred for Kinski (by all accounts it was mutual), director David Schmoeller puts Kinski through the paces (and claustrophobic spaces), turning this nudity-spiced schlockfest into a lecherous tour of depravity. With a score by Italian composer Pino Donaggio, Crawlspace is surely someone's guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon
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