The People Who Own the Dark (1976) User Reviews

Blinded by the light

[JohnSeal · 6/10 · 21 February 2010]

Ever wanted to see Paul Naschy shoot clay pigeons? Look no further than The People Who Own the Dark, a superior nuclear holocaust thriller from under-appreciated director Leon Klimovsky. Naschy plays Bourn, a military officer who joins several other men at a remote château for a night of depraved debauchery with a group of five beautiful women (one of whom is played by Maria Perschy). Just as the film threatens to head into Jess Franco territory, however, it takes a 180-degree turn when a nuclear explosion damages the house and knocks out the power. Now our group of de Sade wannabes are faced with the greatest challenge of all: surviving the radioactive fallout that's inexorably heading their way--and to make matters worse, the residents of the nearest town have all been blinded as a result of the explosion and have developed some disturbing, zombie-like tendencies. The original Spanish-language version of this film is apparently twelve minutes longer than the English-dubbed cut, but good luck finding it. Presumably the early scenes involving Lenin and Marx make more sense in the uncut version. Then again, maybe not.

Tombs of the Blind Living

[Bezenby · 6/10 · 5 December 2018]

This film might play as some kind of parable about the rich and the poor, or perhaps the Franco regime, or some crap like that. What we in the instant world of 2018 need to know is: are there plenty of boobs and gore in this film?

The answer of course is there's some boobs and not a lot of gore, but it's worth a watch anyway. It's got Paul Naschy in it. And he's plays a complete jerk.

He's a Baron or something of a huge villa where the rich go to play out weird sex games in the basement. We get to meet our elite first - a couple of doctors, a lawyer, the Madame who runs the plays, and we get to meet out hookers: the red-head, the blonde one, the black one and I think at least two were gay as well. I've got to admit the film does spend quite a bit of time establishing why we should this lot before the men all don weird masks and the women throw on see-through gowns and head to the cellar.

It's lucky for them that while they're down there a nuclear war breaks out and everyone 'up top' is blinded by the flash. Our rich folk/hooker team head back upstairs to find the help staggering about blind, and do what any rich enclave would do: Head into town to steal all the food from all the blind people that clearly need help while also killing a few of those blind folk and causing a huge siege situation back at the mansion. Remember those poor folks in Day of the Triffids? Well, imagine a really angry, violent version of them and you've got this film.

People compare this to Night of the Living Dead and Last Man on Earth and that's because it is basically those films, only with Paul Naschy and the priest guy from Horror Express in it. That doesn't mean it's a bad film though. It's good. I still haven't watched a Paul Naschy film I haven't liked, and this one seems to have a bigger budget than most. Who doesn't want to see a bunch of angry blind people get their own back on a bunch of jerks?

Apocalyptic and eerie film with good cast as Alberto de Mendoza , Paul Naschy ,Maria Perschy and Nadiuska

[ma-cortes · 7/10 · 8 June 2020]

Strong suspense with considerable violence by that time : the early and middle Seventies . The plot is plain and simple : a bunch of wealthy businessmen , doctors and military officers who are partying at an old house , then occurs a nuclear accident and subsequently they venture out into the nearest little town to search for supplies as well as food and meet most of the residents blinded by the outbursting . As a catastrophe turns all of humanity into blindness , a group of bourgeois people and prostitutes stay suffering on earth in a post-apocalypse , while becoming themselves into reluctant victims and cruel assassins , then several surprises to take place . Meanwhile , lots of infected people are crawling , shambling , through empty streets , whimpering , pleading , begging for his loves ..Now ... there is nothing between you and ... "the people who own the dark".

Creepy , scary and violent movie in which a bunch of rich businessmen are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth , and they discover the existence of a sinister and brutal group called ¨The People Who Own The Dark¨ . This is an original as well as effective cross-fertilization of doomsday fantasy and Gothic myth . It suggests compellingly the darkest and sinister themes of Richard Matheson 1954 novel , frequently adapted as ¨The last man on Earth¨ . As the story takes parts here and there of ¨The Last man on Earth¨ by Sidney Salkow , ¨The Omega man¨ by Boris Sagal , and ¨The night of living dead¨ by George A Romero . Main cast is pretty good , such as : the veteran Argentine actor Alberto De Mendoza , the extremely gorgeous Nadiuska , the terror legend Jacinto Molina and Maria Perschy who time ago worked for Howard Hawks . And support cast is full of familar faces such as : Teresa Gimpera , Emiliano Redondo , Julia Saly , Ricardo Palacios , Tomás Picó , Diana Polakov , Antonio Mayans , among others . Colorful and atmospheric cinematography by Miguel Milá , shot on location in Torrelodones ,Alcalá de Henares, Miraflores de la Sierra ,Talamanca del Jarama, Madrid . And frightening and suspenseful musical score by by Asins Arbó .

The motion picture was compellingly directed by Leon Klimovsky . This Argentinean filmmaker Leon Klimovsky was a good and prolific craftsman . Klimovsky was born on October 16, 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as León Klimovsky Dulfano . Founded Argentina's first film club in 1929 . Began his film career making short movies . Settled in Spain in the 1950s and became a Spanish citizen . He was a director and writer , known for his terror films as La Noche De Walpurgis (1971), La Orgía Nocturna De Los Vampiros (1973) , La Saga De los Drácula , La Rebelión De Las Muertas , Doctor Jekyll Y Hombre Lobo , but he also directed other genres as Wartime : Operación Rommel , A Ghentar Si Muore Facile , The Legion of No Return ; thriller : Mean Mother ; Western : Reverendo Colt , 2000 dollars for Coyote , Few Dollars for Django, Death Knows No Time , Rattler Kid , A dollar for Sartana ; and Drama : La Casa De Las Chivas , Salto a La Gloria . Rating . 6.5/7 . Decent , almost notable terror and thriller movie .

aka The People Who Own the Dark

[Richard_Harland_Smith · 9 February 2000]

ULTIMO DESEO is the longer, Spanish language version of what Americans saw as THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK. An inspired reworking of George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Klimovsky's film posits a nuclear war in Europe that blinds the populace (a la THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS), but spares a handful of libidinous businessmen and military types who were copulating in a rural bordello. When the villagers learn of the sighted survivors, they storm the villa in a manner very much like (and superior to) the undead in Romero's classic chiller. Alberto deMendoza (HORROR EXPRESS), Teresa Gimpera, Maria Perschy and Paul Naschy all star (and were given anglicized monikers - Albert Mennen, Terry Kemper, Mary Pershing and Paul Mackey - to fool us boorish Yanks. Although rare, this film does exist on video, albeit in out of print and bootleg copies of less than pristine quality. Still, the film packs a punch and should be seen.

THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK (Leon Klimovsky, 1976) ***

[Bunuel1976 · 7/10 · 5 February 2011]

This easily makes for the best film from Leon Klimovsky I have watched, since he had otherwise come across as a strictly pedestrian director. Given the apocalyptic sci-fi premise, this plays like a variation on 1962's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (revolving around a town-folk blinded by nuclear fall-out) and 1968's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (having a besieged unaffected community as its protagonists). The former are led by a vicious real-life case who instigates his 'followers' to gouge out the eyes of one girl and shoot another in the mouth!; the latter, predictably, would just as soon fall out {sic} amongst themselves – best of all in this regard is Maria Perschy's put-down of the Paul Naschy character as "the biggest faggot of all time"! The film, therefore, is an ensemble piece – apart from Perschy's hostess (eventually revealed as a lesbian) and Naschy's rugged but volatile man of action (constantly imbibing drinks and smoking), we get Alberto De Mendoza as a Physicist (who probably knows more than he lets on about their current state of affairs) and Antonio Mayans (later elevated to leading-man status in several Jess Franco pictures).

Interestingly, the opening sequence has all of these (and others besides, notably a fat man who gradually regresses to an animalistic level!) convening for an underground Sadean 'experience' – donning masks so as to conceal their high-profile identities and with several willing girls at their disposal! – which, ironically, saves their hide. Other films which can be seen to have inspired this one to some degree are two popular Charlton Heston sci-fi vehicles, namely THE OMEGA MAN (1971; the look of the 'monsters'), SOYLENT GREEN (1973; the downbeat 'mass of human flesh' finale), and even Luis Bunuel's THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962; the party-turned-survival-game premise). Incidentally, one of the co-writers here was himself a notable director i.e. Vicente Aranda, who had previously helmed the popular "Carmilla" update THE BLOOD-SPATTERED BRIDE (1972). In the end, while the English title of the film under review is undeniably memorable, I admit to being partial to the subtlety displayed by the Spanish original – which translates to "Last Wish"; as for the copy I acquired, it was only let down by the first three minutes which had jerky movement coupled with audio that was both distorted and out-of-synch!

Derivative, but engaging, Spanish sci-fi shocker

[Leofwine_draca · 6/10 · 21 October 2016]

Seven years after the success of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the Spaniards decided to make their own, little-seen version under the steady hand of Leon Klimovsky (the guy who made my favourite Spanish film of all time, SHADOW OF THE WEREWOLF). While not a classic movie - and certainly not up there with Klimovsky's best horror output - this is still a classy, solid thriller which is bolstered by some good performances and an excellent music score which varies between classical music, repeated piano notes to generate suspense (just like in EYES WIDE SHUT) and typical lounge music for the lighter moments. Indeed it is this film's music which adds a lot to the suspense and atmosphere of the film; that and the beautiful Spanish countryside and the expensive-looking echoey mansion in which much of the action takes place which provide the chills and thrills that this movie is striving for.

Things open with a bunch of assorted B-movie types assembling in the dank cellar of a country mansion to re-enact some Marquis de Sade type-behaviour. They are rudely interrupted in their endeavours by a sudden earthquake which, it turns out, was caused by some nuclear explosions. When the men travel to the location village to get supplies, they discover that the populace has turned blind (similar to DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS). One of them can't hack it and ends up shooting down a bunch of blind folk before he himself is killed.

Re-assembling back at the mansion, the group are horrified to find themselves the only unhurt survivors in the vicinity. One doctor is so upset that he loses his mind completely and crawls around naked on his hands and knees (a pretty funny moment, it has to be said). A young couple take a car and travel into the village to help the blind people but are attacked and killed - just like like that similar scene in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. After a fairly slow pacing up until now with little action, all hell breaks loose when the blind surround and attack the mansion, quickly forcing their way in by driving a car through the doors. The survivors escape into the cellar and then the countryside after a fire rages out of control. Tensions fray within the group...

Although the basic plot is little more than a nicely-packaged rip-off, this movie does have some nice macabre touches to it. In one instance, the blind smash a hole in the ceiling of a room and drop the bloodied corpses of their first victims through! Later on, a black girl is assaulted by a creepy-looking blind beggar (complete with fake stubble) who tears her eyes out in a fit of jealousy! The downbeat ending is again a rip-off, but is surprisingly understated and effective and is a neat precursor to later conspiracy thrillers in which the government is not to be trusted.

The acting is pretty good for a change, with all of the cast having fun with their admittedly clichéd roles. The women (including genre stalwart Maria Perschy) are given strong characters for a change and each person is given a specific role to play with no chance of the viewer getting confused between them. Stealing the acting honours again is genre icon Paul Naschy who plays a gun enthusiast. Naschy proves himself to be a tough and powerful member of the group. As a whole his performance just lifts the film. THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK passes the time well, proves to be an interesting adaptation of Matheson's I Am Legend, and, while not one to stay in the mind afterwards, delivers all the chuckles and chills that a fun B-movie should.

Great title for a film

[christopher-underwood · 4/10 · 15 April 2014]

Great title for a film, but just not this one. Over ambitious project inevitably leading to it becoming pretentious, silly and unforgivably, dull. It starts promisingly enough with a disparate group of dignitaries all masked at sat about a banqueting table as pretty girls in diaphanous gowns prepare to submit to their every whim in the name of the Marquis de Sade. Some of us will wish the film continued in this vein instead of lurching into post apocalyptic Twilight Zone territory, with blindness, zombieness and the threat of radiation and the end of the world. Paul Naschy is fine but looks a little more awkward than usual. I find he is usually better when working for himself.

Grim but good - though quite uneven between its front and back ends

[I_Ailurophile · 7/10 · 10 September 2023]

Save for the color presentation and the indicated intended activities of the characters, the very premise sounds like a genre flick that could have been made in the 1950s, when science fiction and horror alike were especially fascinated with the burgeoning Atomic Age. Save for the meaningful atmosphere of tension and unease that flavors this sci-fi/horror-thriller from top to bottom, it spends quite a lot of time feeling like a 50s genre flick, too. Ultimately I do very much like this, but the chief issue that it faces is significant imbalance from start to finish, with later portions of the feature necessarily picking up the slack that the early ones left loosely hanging. 'The people who own the dark' is good, and enjoyable, but the issue is that it could have been great.

I hardly mean to wholly impugn the skills of anyone involved, or the film at large, yet the shortcomings early on are very self-evident. Themes and Big Ideas are iterated oh so plainly in the dialogue; many interactions between characters just avoid any meaningful discussion of distinct events, and/or limply trail off. Early scene writing and plot development are rather flat and matter-of-fact, and these same words can surely apply to the direction as well. Similarly, the quality of the acting varies between occasionally striking a more earnest, nuanced note, and mostly being either kind of dull and lifeless, or kind of overt and tactless. Emphasizing the point, the first supposedly significant scene of violence a little after the halfway mark is executed so weakly that it's only by virtue of Miguel Asins Arbó's dramatic score, contributing throughout to the overall ambience, that the moment is elevated. It's not that this is outright bad at any point, yet it makes a first impression that's less than satisfying, casting into doubt how much it will be able at any point to evoke any of the feelings that the concept and story theoretically should portend.

In fairness, the story certainly picks up more in the second half, and a greater spark of vitality is readily discerned as the length draws on. Beyond the first flaccid example, there are more stunts, effects, and action sequences to come that carry the energy and power that this needed more of from the start. The same pretty well goes for the scene writing generally, not least as no few moments are genuinely horrifying all the way through to the end. It seems like more care was devoted to the latter half as the acting feels more sincere in its effort, to swell results, and likewise the direction that informs how every shot and scene is orchestrated. Why, the ideas behind the narrative are actually very worthy ones, what feels like a blend of 'The day of the triffids' with the dour 1983 drama 'Testament' and George Romero's 'The crazies' - all with an extra layer of inhumanity and cruelty on top. The strength of the back end helps the picture to feel less like a 50s genre flick, with all the less robust sensibilities thereof, and more like one from the 70s, as it is: more violent, and unquestionably more bleak. If nothing else is true, it speaks well to all involved, cast, crew, writers, and director, that 'The people who own the dark' is able to recover so definitively, and have as much of an impact as it does when all is said and done.

Would that the movie as a whole were more even. At length I'm happy to say that I had a good time watching, and I'm inclined to believe the last three-eighths or so are sufficiently strong that one can more easily forget how rough the beginning was, or at least forgive it. If nothing else, all who participated in this title's creation knew how important it was to get the later scenes right, and the dreary moods that they carry, and the skill and intelligence that they poured into these moments reflects it. It's just that the whole thing would have been better, and would be remembered more fondly, if that same degree of care had been taken all along. Oh well. One way or another I don't think this is a must-see, unless perhaps you're a huge fan of someone involved. All the same, if grim storytelling is no obstacle, and you do have the chance to watch 'The people who own the dark,' it's more appreciable and satisfying than not, and worth one's time, with the caveat that we just have to wait a bit for its best value to manifest.

Disappointing Spanish horror

[The_Void · 5/10 · 31 August 2008]

The People Who Own the Dark is effectively a reworking of the classic horror film Night of the Living Dead; also taking influence from British horror flick The Day of the Triffids. The film has a really great premise and I was looking forward to it for that reason; in spite of all the critical reviews I've read, but unfortunately the film really doesn't make the best of what it has to offer. It's partly down to the fact that it features a very low budget; but the uneven script, which means the film is good in places and very boring in others, doesn't exactly help either. The plot focuses on a party in an old castle. All the partygoers are rich businessmen, and their fun is spoiled by a nuclear war which, aside from shaking the building, also leaves most of the population blind. The inhabitants of the castle venture outside eventually but get into trouble upon meeting with the newly blinded citizens as they appear to have become mad from the trauma and set out to maim and kill those who still have their sight.

The film is directed by León Klimovsky and stars his long time collaborator Paul Naschy. The pair worked together on a couple of Naschy's rubbishy "Homo-Lobo" films as well as the decent Giallo A Dragonfly for Every Corpse. Naschy is one of the major stars of seventies horror; but his role here is very limited and really he's little more than a co-star, which is a shame because the best thing about Paul Naschy films tends to be Paul Naschy. The film does feature a fairly good atmosphere and the director helps the film by putting forward a truly hopeless feeling. The first half of the film really is very boring; the director merely shows us the central characters, none of which are very interesting, and the build up to the party is boring also. Things do get a bit better in the second half as the action starts to take centre stage; and while it's not as good as the films it takes influence from, it is at least fairly entertaining. It all boils down to a dark and depressing ending which is often hated; although I kind of liked it. Overall, The People Who Own the Dark is a disappointing horror movie and not worth going out of your way for.

One of Paul Naschy's best films!

[bfan83 · 8/10 · 1 March 2009]

The People Who Own the Dark is about a group of wealthy gentleman who visit a secluded for some kinky sex games with the prostitutes. During the party, they are startled by a huge earthquake from a nuclear disaster which has taken place. They soon discover that survivors from a nearby town are now transformed into wandering blind creatures. They kill a few of the blind survivors due to being scared and unsure. Soon the rest of the blind survivors make their way to the villa to seek revenge.

Despite the fact it's an obvious rip-off of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, it still manages to evoke a sense of doom and helplessness throughout the film as each one is killed off by the wandering blind townspeople. Paul Naschy is in prime form as a jerk who's out to save his own skin. It's refreshing to see him play a different role aside from Waldemar Daninsky for once. Maria Perschy (Beyond the Door, Night of the Howling Beast) is also very good as one of the prostitutes. Her acting is what makes this film shine the most. The only thing this film suffers from is a downbeat ending.

Fans of Spanish horror or Paul Naschy should enjoy THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK. It's different from other film's in his catalog (namely, the Waldemar Daninisky series.) It is incredibly rare, but I'm sure you can still manage to locate a copy of it on ebay or amazon. It's more than worth the price, despite its downbeat ending.

A Spanish-language take on NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

[Richard_Harland_Smith · 9 February 2000]

Forget the reference books (including the IMDb) - PLANETA CIEGO was directed by Argentinian filmmaker Leon Klimovsky, also responsible for WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN, VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES (both with Paul Naschy, who co-stars here, too) and THE VAMPIRE'S NIGHT ORGY. A group of prominent business and military men enjoying a weekend debauch in the cellar of a rural bordello are spared when a nuclear attack devastates Europe. Finding the locals blinded, and drawing hatred upon themselves for looting the village stores, the survivors board up the villa and prepare for an attack by night. PLANETA CIEGO, which is also known as THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK (a shortened version that played in America) and ULTIMO DESEO is an exciting and disturbing (if non-graphic) reworking of themes found in George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The cast includes Alberto deMendoza (HORROR EXPRESS) and Maria Perschy (also in Klimovsky's VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES). This film has for too long been attributed to Amando de Ossorio, probably because he directed the well-known "Blind Dead" films. Well worth seeking out.

Zombified villagers.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 8/10 · 28 April 2010]

Argentinian-born filmmaker León Klimovsky made eight films with Paul Naschy for which he is probably best known. "The Werewolf's Shadow" (1971),pretty good giallo with Erika Blanc "A Dragonfly for Each Corpse" (1974) and the surreal "The People Who Own the Dark"(1979) are just a few of the highlights of these two's collaboration.In "Ultimo Deseo" a group of nuclear explosion survivors are trying to survive attacks of the zombified blind villagers.The survivors board up in the villa and prepare for an attack at night.It all leads to surprisingly downbeat and tragic ending in the vein of Romero's "Night of the Living Dead".The cast shall be pretty familiar to fans of Spanish cult cinema as it includes Paul Naschy,Nadiuska,Alberto DeMendoza,Teresa Gimpera,Tony Kendall and Maria Perschy.8 out of 10.Very enjoyable and pretty dark horror movie!

The Party Is Officially Over...

[azathothpwiggins · 27 October 2021]

THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK is about a group of Marquis de Sade devotees who gather for an orgy, complete with rubber-masked men and the requisite naked women, only to have it rudely interrupted by a nuclear holocaust.

Upon investigation, the men discover that the local villagers have all been struck blind by the blast. The inexplicable mistreatment / murder of these people by the men leads to a confrontation and ultimate, deadly showdown.

This is a bizarre and novel take on the post-apocalyptic movie. The savagery of the survivors was inherent in them prior to the catastrophe, and comes out immediately. While some are dying from radiation poisoning, one man strips down and crawls around on all fours like an animal. It's all pretty wild!

While these characters are fairly repellent, they are just being themselves. They are hedonistic sadists after all! Paul Naschy plays one of his best roles ever as Borne. The opening scene of him shooting pigeons with an elephant gun is priceless!

For lovers of the different and the strange...

Part John Wyndham, part George A. Romero and ALL Naschy!

[Weirdling_Wolf · 9/10 · 10 June 2021]

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 with the weirdly contemporary post-apocalyptic nightmare 'The People Who own The Dark' which is a starkly shocking nightmare, with a satisfyingly grim climax!

An illuminati-style think-tank comfortably convene in an isolated, handsomely well-appointed domicile for a deliriously decadent weekend indulgence of Marquis de Sade-inspired fleshly recreation, hey, each to their own, man!!! This is the 70s, and rampant promiscuity was in!!! And once these boozily thrill-seeking sensualists are majestically mashed up and ready to play nasty, their sinful soirée is rudely interrupted by a tumultuous man-made cataclysm, the detonation of a thermonuclear warhead which 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 as 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!

The People Who Own the Dark

[Michael_Elliott · 31 October 2013]

The People Who Own the Dark (1976)

** (out of 4)

A group of people gather at a home where they enter an underground bunker to do a De Sade worship. After hearing a loud explosion they return to the surface and notice that something strange has happened. They don't realize how strange until they go to town for supplies and notice the title monsters, a group of people who have turned blind due to a nuclear holocaust. THE PEOPLE WHO OWNS THE DARK has a pretty good reputation among Spanish horror fans but I'll be the outsider and say that I was pretty disappointed in the film. People have compared it to a cross between NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, which is certainly true but I'd also add THE OMEGA MAN in there as another influence. I watched the American cut of the movie, which features twelve fewer minutes than the Spanish cut but apparently only some more detailed character development is missing. With that said, I thought there were some major issues with the screenplay including the fact that none of the characters are all that interesting. When you think about it, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD features a lot of dialogue scenes and more often than not the zombies aren't on the screen. That's the same here but the only problem with this film is that nothing being said is all that interesting and unlike the Romero film you really don't care about any of the characters here either. None of the characters really stood out from one another and outside of the familiar faces (Alberto DeMendoza and Paul Naschy) there's really no one to root for or care about. For the most part the performances seemed fine, although this is always a hard thing to judge when you're watching something with an English dubbing. I will say that the look of the film was quite nice but director Leon Klimovsky just doesn't add any flare to the subject and even at 82-minutes the film drags in spots. Again, I know I'm in the minority on this one but the film just didn't work nearly as well as it should have.

All About This Movie............

[Joe 25 · 19 September 2000]

Well, don't get me wrong, this has a nice plot, the acting is better than most films of its type and the direction is nice. But that can't disguise the fact while the movie was good, the ending was just atrocious. I definetely would have given this movie three and a half stars, but due to the lame ending, gave this one only two.