I haven't read all of the user comments here - just scanned through the first 20 or so - but from what I've read no one else here noticed this huge, gaping hole in the story:
this movie was filmed on location in (what was at the time) Czechoslovakia and the story takes place in Czechoslovakia, which the story claims is (or at least used to be) Transylvania. Transylvania is a couple hundred miles away, in what is now Romania, not Czechoslovakia. That isn't some obscure little piece of trivia, it's clearly marked on most maps, even back in the 1980's when this movie was made.
Christopher Lee has one of his worst roles here, when werewolf hunters go to "Transylvania" to hunt down the last of some ancient werewolf cult, lead by the frequently nude Sybil Danning. It starts out fairly interesting, but then quickly goes downhill after about the first 15 minutes, taking itself way too seriously when the first movie was so much fun. Christopher Lee looks about as bored as he could be, and we get to hear the same god awful new wave band play the same horrible song over and over, four or five times throughout this movie, we even get an extended performance by them during the end credits- I think this movie was made primarily as a showcase for this crappy band! And while I have no problem with look at Sybil Danning topless, is it really necessary to show the same scene of her ripping off her top over and over about 15 times throughout this movie?
The effect of on location filming is the only good part of this movie, no matter how geographically incorrect it may be, but it's ruined by grimy, underexposed photography- I've just gone back and watched the Republic/Lumiere version of this, and they have corrected, to an extent, the overly dark photography, so at least you can enjoy the on location photography when you get bored to tears with the story ...
1/2 a star out of ****
this movie was filmed on location in (what was at the time) Czechoslovakia and the story takes place in Czechoslovakia, which the story claims is (or at least used to be) Transylvania. Transylvania is a couple hundred miles away, in what is now Romania, not Czechoslovakia. That isn't some obscure little piece of trivia, it's clearly marked on most maps, even back in the 1980's when this movie was made.
Christopher Lee has one of his worst roles here, when werewolf hunters go to "Transylvania" to hunt down the last of some ancient werewolf cult, lead by the frequently nude Sybil Danning. It starts out fairly interesting, but then quickly goes downhill after about the first 15 minutes, taking itself way too seriously when the first movie was so much fun. Christopher Lee looks about as bored as he could be, and we get to hear the same god awful new wave band play the same horrible song over and over, four or five times throughout this movie, we even get an extended performance by them during the end credits- I think this movie was made primarily as a showcase for this crappy band! And while I have no problem with look at Sybil Danning topless, is it really necessary to show the same scene of her ripping off her top over and over about 15 times throughout this movie?
The effect of on location filming is the only good part of this movie, no matter how geographically incorrect it may be, but it's ruined by grimy, underexposed photography- I've just gone back and watched the Republic/Lumiere version of this, and they have corrected, to an extent, the overly dark photography, so at least you can enjoy the on location photography when you get bored to tears with the story ...
1/2 a star out of ****