Wednesday, June 9, 2021

'The People Who Own The Dark' (1976) – Leon Klimovsky.

Frequent cinematic collaborators, the stylish genre film-maker Klimovsky and powerhouse polymath actor/writer/producer Jacinto Molina (Paul Naschy) joined their far from incompatible forces once more to creepily concoct one of their more singular works of macabre movie weirdness. Their weirdly contemporary, post-apocalyptic nightmare 'The People Who own The Dark' remains a starkly shocking nightmare, with a satisfyingly grim climax!


An illuminati-style think-tank comfortably convened in an isolated, handsomely well-appointed domicile for a deliriously decadent weekend indulgence of Marquis de Sade-inspired fleshly Fun!!! Once these boozily thrill-seeking sensualists are majestically mashed up and ready to shag nasty, their sinful soirée is rudely interrupted by an apocalyptic man-made cataclysm! The detonation of a thermonuclear warhead rendered all above ground wholly blind, seemingly infecting them all with a murderous, unrelenting bloodlust!

Barricaded deep inside the large house, with the exterior now ceaselessly under siege by a savage horde of Romero-like 'Crazies', Klimovsky's feisty fright-flick soon becomes a claustrophobic, altogether nightmarish, dystopian Sci-fi/Thriller! This beleaguered, bourgeois elite are wickedly whittled down by an unseeing, unthinking morass of malevolently marauding monsters! Klimovsky brings his boisterous B-Movie to a strikingly bleak climax, part John Wyndham, part George A. Romero, and ALL Naschy!

 


 








 










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