Subject: The Keep
This was a pretty classy horror movie. Nazi soldiers move into a huge keep set in a Romanian mountain pass, despite warnings that spending the night there is a bad idea. They are also warned not to touch the metal crosses set into the walls, so two soldiers pry one out, opening a passageway to a huge underground cavern. Special effects pour out and mangle the two guys to death.
Jürgen is in command, and after 5 soldiers are mysteriously killed over the next few days his request for relocation is answered by the arrival of another officer who takes over. This guy, Kaempffer, insists that villagers are responsible for the deaths, so he shoots a few and announces that he'll keep murdering civilians until they stop killing soldiers.
Then he finds some strange writing on a wall and has to get someone to translate it. He releases a Jewish professor and his daughter from a concentration camp and brings them to the keep, the professor to work on the problem, the daughter to look after him because he's sick and crippled. Shortly after they arrive, two soldiers grab the daughter and start to rape her. She is rescued by special effects which kills the soliders and transports her back to her father's room. Then the father gets into a discussion with the entity and they end up making a deal. The entity says it wants to stop the soldiers from killing "my people," but it has to get out of the keep to do that. It can't get out unless someone finds a hidden talisman and takes it out of the building to be disposed of. The entity restores the father's health so that he can perform this task. Meanwhile, a young and severely creepy Scott Glenn is heading for the keep. He's not human, and it's pretty obvious that his job is to do battle with the entity; what's not clear is which side you're supposed to be on, which is one of the reasons the film was so good.
So... I won't spoil the ending because you should watch this sometime if you haven't seen it. Jürgen ends up being the hapless voice of reason, trying to control / talk some sense into Kaempffer - which never does work, of course.
Unfortunately, because it WAS a good movie there's not much I can do in the way of ribbing, except maybe where Scott Glenn is concerned. And even then, you'd have to see him in this to appreciate it. So I will just grouse about the amount of time they spent showing the back of Jürgen's head in all his scenes and leave it at that.