Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

I won't get into the plot since I feel that the Amazon editorial review up top does a fine job of summing it up. But in a nutshell, this film is about "Good corrupting Evil" instead of the other way around which has become cliche.

The film's in black in white, which actually adds to the atmosphere.

The language spoken is Esperanto, which kinda/sorta/not really sounds like Spanish. I've just shown an interest in the language and I was able to pick up a few words here and there.

I thought the photography was really good: Some very creepy-looking trees and creative points of view.

The English sub-titles are really huge, which can be bad in that they block a lot of the screen. On the good side, the large text makes it easy on the eyes as far as reading goes. There is not a whole lot of dialog and there are quite a few times when there is a long stretch of no dialog at all.

I'm 27 and I personally found this film to be quite enjoyable--it's certainly one of the more creative movies I've seen and the general storyline is quite intriguing.

I have to admit that I bought this mainly because of the dialogue in Esperanto. Although I would not call myself an Esperantist, I know the language quite well and take a general interest in constructed languages, and I think Esperantists are far too critical of this movie. Sure, a lot of the dialogue is poorly pronounced, but William Shatner and one or two others manage the language quite well, and I cannot understand why a dedicated Esperantist would not at least want the movie in his collection. As fantasy-horror, it is passable, and shows some imaginative camera work, and is of reasonable picture quality, considering its age.