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Crawlspace

USA 1986
produced by
Roberto Bessi, Charles Band (executive) for Empire
directed by David Schmoeller
starring Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery, Carole Francis, Tane McClure, Sally Brown, Jack Heller, David Abbott, Kenneth Robert Shippy, David Schmoeller
written by David Schmoeller, music by Pino Donaggio, special makeup effects by John Carl Buechler, MMI Inc, cinematography by Sergio Salvati

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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These days, Dr Gunther (Klaus Kinski) runs a small boarding house, and he plays the role of the caring landlord to perfection. So ok, he uses the airducts of his apartment building, the crawlspace, to spy on his tenants, all pretty ladies, but one has to have some hobby, right? Oh, and he keeps a woman without a tongue (Sally Brown) in a cage in his attic, but ... well, ok, that is beyond eccentric, but that's not even what's actually wrong with him. You see, Dr Gunther is the son of a concentration camp doctor who was especially ruthless when it came to human experiments, and who was executed as a war criminal in 1945 - and while Gunther was not old enough to take part in his dad's experiments himself during the war, he took inherited his dad's convictions, and later, when he was a prominent doctor at an Argentinian hospital himself, he started killing people he was supposed to save, just for the fun of it. And now, he only runs this boarding house to never run out of people to kill, be it the girls who live here or their boyfriends, or a certain Mr Steiner (Kenneth Robert Shippy), who has followed him all the way from Argentina because Gunther has killed his brother.

But Gunther has chosen Lori (Talia Balsam) to be his ultimate victim, a woman for whom he has redecorated his house like a chamber of horrors, with dozens of death traps, and the corpses of the other tenants serving as decoration. However, Lori isn't one to go down with a fight, and she is rather resourceful, too, is able to anticipate Gunther's death traps, manages to free the girl in the cage (who will later repay in kind), and ultimately manages to kill Dr Gunther, who has by that time gone properly insane ...

 

This movie could have been really good: The premise is great in a twisted way, Kinski is great playing what he plays best (the psycho that's about to burst), and the camerawork is great. The sets are quite nice, too, and several scenes are quite atmospheric.

And yet, Crawlspace is not essentially a good film: Basically, the premise is not translated into a good plot, the characters apart from Kinski's remain disappointingly pale - with isn't helped by rather mediocre actors -, and while several scenes in themselves are quite atmospheric, this is not enough to translate into a proper overall mood. Add to this a finale that despite the best efforts isn't quite exciting enough, and you've got ... well, not a trainwreck of a movie, rather a missed opportunity.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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