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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792853121
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792853121
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Running Time: 181 minutes
Sales Rank: 49069
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 21, 1986
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A double dose of delirium awaits you on this demented DVD! Taking her Diary of a Mad Housewife acclaim to effective extremes, Carrie Snodgress is disturbingly convincing in The Attic (1980), a morbid slice of gothic pie in which she plays a dowdy librarian, obsessively grieving 19 years after the disappearance of her picture-perfect boyfriend. This prolonged sadness is aggravated by her apparently disabled father (Ray Milland), who dominates her life with such abusive bitterness that she descends even deeper into tortured desperation. What does she discover in the attic? We're not telling, but suffice it to say Daddy's evil goes beyond expectations! Directed with earnest compassion for its damaged wallflower, The Attic is wretched psychodrama at its most bizarre.
On the flipside, Crawlspace (1986) is grade-Z pulp for those who take perverse delight in the derangement of Klaus Kinski, here playing a suicidal heir to the Third Reich, continuing his Nazi reign of terror as the voyeuristic landlord in a building full of unsuspecting young females. Drawing on his alleged hatred for Kinski (by all accounts it was mutual), director David Schmoeller puts Kinski through the paces (and claustrophobic spaces), turning this nudity-spiced schlockfest into a lecherous tour of depravity. With a score by Italian composer Pino Donaggio, Crawlspace is surely someone's guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Disturbing
"The Attic" isn't your typical horror movie. In fact, there is very little horror in the movie. It is more of a disturbing, psychological thriller. The film revolves around a librarian named Louise. After 19 years at the same library in Wichita, Kansas, Louise has been laid off due to several "incidents" at work. Her replacement is a recent college grad named Emily. The two realize that they have quite a bit in common. Over the course of the film, the two women develop a friendship that results in ... Read More
Rating:  - Five Stars for The Attic
Well done suspense movie. The story of a spinster librarian & her domineering, tyrannical father. Well done, I rather enjoyed this film.
Rating: - Klaus Kinski is superb as a guy playing the elderly version of Marilyn Manson!
Got a chance to catch part of "Crawlspace" recently on Direct TV. Man, I forgot how creepy Kinski really was in this flick! I immediately thought, "Holy cow! IT'S THE ELDERLY VERSION OF MARYLIN MANSON!! However, I think Marilyn is probably a perfect gentleman in reality compared to Kinski's character of Gunther. He was not only creepy, but very, very sick-minded. What I found particularly disturbing, and sad, was that poor young woman locked in a cage and being starved to death! This, I felt, ... Read More
Rating:  - If these movies come on the late night double feature, it is definitely for a reason.
Both of these movies are boring and forgettable. I thought Klaus Kinski was absoluted disgusting in his role as that peeping-tom freak, so I guess he was good for that part, but I still did not like either of these movies because they were so boring. I thought the storylines were completely uncompelling and poorly executed. If one is better than the other, Crawlspace would be the better of the two, but that is not saying much, but at least it saves this DVD from getting zero stars, which is pretty ... Read More
Rating:  - THE ATTIC
I GOT THIS MOVIE BECAUSE I THOUGHT I SAW IT WHEN I WAS YOUNGER.THE MOVIE IS OLD,SLOW GOING FOR MOST OF THE MOVIE.I GUESS IF YOU WHAT TO SEE HOW UNBELIEVABLY BAD A FATHER CAN BE TO A DAUGHTER,YOU'LL WHAT TO SEE IT.IT HAD SOME INTERSTING PARTS.I GUESS YOU COULD SAY IT HAD A STUNNING ENDING.IF YOU CAN GET IT CHEAP, IT'S WORTH A LOOK.
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