Nonureva Really Surprised!

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Micransix Crappy film

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** On a mission to save strippers from a life of sin Redwood County cop Lt. Krebs, Dennis Hooper, kidnaps Gina Moore , Asia Argento, right out of his police station. He then locks her up in the basement of his house in order to straighten her out and get Gina to change her sinful ways. Being a victim of a crime where her boyfriend Derick, Alex Zahara, was murdered didn't at all change Lt. Krebs opinion about her. He in fact treated poor Gina like an animal in a zoo using a combination of mental and physical torture on her.We get an insight in whats going on in Krebs unbalanced mind when we start to realize as the movie unwinds that he himself comes from a very dysfunctional family. Krebs dad was a cop who blew his brains out after he murdered his wife who incidentally was also, like Gina, a stripper.Back in town Lt. Krebs is not only the towns top cop but also has a side-job as the lovable and funny Deputy Rock a TV personality who teaches the little kids in town the difference between right and wrong. It's at a local school that Kleb is spotted by teacher Ruthie Taylor,Helen Shaver, who falls crazily in love with the big strong, and unknown to Ruthie at the time, crazy lawman. Ruthie is also involved with the towns TV station and is very eager to get Lt. Krebs' show "Deputy Rock" national exposer.Not at all interested in Ruthie's ideas about making him a star Lt. Krebs is later confronted with a video tape, taken from a TV helicopter, of himself chasing and piling on to Gina. Who at the time the tape was made tried to escape from his dungeon. Hurt at not what Lt. Krebs was doing, attacking and brutalizing Gina, but at what she thought that he was doing on the tape, having consensual sex with her, causes an inflamed and madden Ruthie to blackmail the crime-fighting cop; not realizing that he's not only a criminal himself but a sick one at that.Dennis Hopper as Lt. Krebs is in fine form playing the usual nut-job role that he's been doing since his great success as an ether sniffing psycho in the film "Blue Velvet" some 20 years ago. Crazed from the word go it's hard to take your eyes off Lt. Krebs whenever he's on the screen since you expect him to explode or melt down at any moment.Both Asia Argento & Helen Shaver as Gina and Ruthie play off each other. With Ruthie thinking that the younger and more attractive Gina had stolen that great hunk of a man, Lt. Krebs, from right under her nose. When it fact Gina would want to have nothing to do with that deranged lunatic and be more then willing for the love-sick Ruthie to be stuck with him.There's also Lt. Krebs second in command the naive but also love-sick, not for Krebs but for Gina, Sgt. Burns, Lochlyn Monro, who spends the entire movie trying to track down Gina. In the end Sgt. Burns finds her almost by accident at his boss', Lt. Krebs, house. Ruthie found out the hard way, at the point of a butcher knife, what a dangerous psycho the man of her dreams, Lt. Krebs, was. Now it's up to the totally clueless Sgt. Burn, with Gina locked in Lt. Krebs car-trunk, to find that out as well before Krebs murders him.

Claudio Carvalho In Redwood County, the dancer Gina (Asia Argento) is attacked and her boyfriend is killed by a maniac in a motel. Gina is attended by Sergeant Burns (Lochlyn Munro) and Lieutenant Krebs (Dennis Hopper) insists in giving a lift to her when she leaves the hospital. However, he kidnaps Gina and arrests her in a cell in the basement of his isolated house. The deranged policeman has a serious trauma from his childhood with dancers of night-clubs and establishes rules and punctuations for Gina while she is imprisoned. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Krebs is stalked by a local, Ruthie (Helen Shaver), who has a crush on him and wants to promote his amateurish puppet show with the character Deputy Rock, his alter-ego. Sgt. Burns is trying to find a clue where the missing Gina may be."The Keeper" is another predictable rip-off of William Wyler's "The Collector". This time, the captor is a deranged lieutenant and the captive is a dancer. The story entertains, but Dennis Hopper is too old and fat for the lead character. The heavy make-up on his face is highlighted in the image of the DVD. It is ridiculous the scene where a young dancer that is keeping her shape working-out in her cell is chased by an old fat man that is able to catch her. Today is a rainy day in Rio de Janeiro, and this movie was a reasonable choice for a boring afternoon. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Obsessão" ("Obsession")

scobbah The Keeper is a story about a young dancer who gets abducted and imprisoned by a corrupt police officer, who's assistant desperately tries to solve the case of the dancer. The plot is quite OK here, but nothing special or surprising. The acting by Dennis Hopper is great, and he really blends the movie with his insane character (officer Krebs). I suppose what didn't made this movie "do it" for me was the poor development here. It all starts out cool, but the further the plot develops the worse it gets. In the end, it feels like everyone and everything has just freaked out and what is left to digest is nothing. 4/10 because of the performance by Hopper and this movie might be "OK" entertainment if you have nothing else to do (or watch).

Craig McPherson It's truly odd how individuals who can't seem to master simple grammar and syntax will unabashedly critique a movie as if they have the cinematic genius of Roman Polanski.If you fall into the category of viewer who thinks a film just isn't gosh darn entertaining unless things are "blown up real good", then by all means, give this one a pass. However if you don't spend your day breathing through your mouth and admiring your unibrow, then you will probably find this film to be the entertainment it aims to be.If there's one type of role Dennis Hopper has down, it's that of a restrained nut job. And in this movie he gets to sink his teeth into the meaty role of a supreme nut job by playing a twisted small town sheriff who thinks he can convince a woman to fall in love with him by abducting her and locking her in a cell in his basement.Heavily dialog driven, Hopper at times carries this film on his back with his highly compelling performance. Asia Argento, the daughter of Italian horror director Dario, is easy on the eyes and does a perfectly capable job in the role of the captive. Veteran Canadian actress Helen Shaver, surfaces as an equally unhinged groupie to Hopper's character, and her scenes with him eerily evoke fleeting similarities to that of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, Canada's infamous serial killer couple.The film is capably directed by Paul Lynch, who has made a career out of directing Canadian-filmed US television shows, something which isn't a leap considering that this film was shot in British Columbia.Overall it's a pretty decent and entertaining little movie. It will hold you to the end and not leave you feeling ripped off. As for some of the other reviewers of this film, well, let's just say it's probably time that they changed the batteries in their singing wall-mounted fish and sat down to some more engaging entertainment.