Atmosphere: Dark castle hallways, pitch-black rooms, creepy cellars-yep, that's Amnesia. Despite being a bit unoriginal, Poisonous was an interesting story with a very impressive (and explosive) ending. By the way, there's no "crypt" anywhere in sight. A heroic fool, desperate to save his beloved, delves into the depths of a forest castle and finds more than he bargained for.
Ick! Ultimately the plot doesn't make much sense-I have no idea what the final sacrifice/ritual/apparent resurrection means-but this is still enjoyable vintage nonsense.
Unless you consider scary so much photography of slithering water snakes-kudos to the (admittedly pretty amateurish) actors for swimming in various scenes, when there were presumably snakes (and maybe alligators) about.
#THE DARK CRYPT MOVIE#
That said, the movie is more an enjoyable regional oddity than something that actually sustains suspense or atmosphere. (And admittedly the woman who plays the snake-changeling sorceress i"Dambella" is gorgeous, with or without clothes-though her speaking voice is some weird mid-Atlantic affectation, like certain second-rung actresses of the 1930s who wanted to sound "sophisticated" aka quasi-British.) I like how once our hero has "passed over," afterlife is no different from the "before " the old voodoo priestess' purple-grey hair Dambella's costumes straight out of Victoria's Secret the villain-team wife who looks like she'd have recorded for Olivia Records in 1976 and the incongruity of some home decor much more tastefully fussed-over than these deep- backwoods characters would ever have in their homes. Another is that this movie has a lot of "exotic" interpretive dancing, always a good thing- better still when it's naked. The film set in swamp country near New Orleans, and an on-screen credit says it was shot there too.) The next is that this is a rare sympathetic genre portrait of a Vietnam vet at a point when they were often portrayed as violent psychos in drive-in flicks.
(The interior shots have an ordinary low-budget cheesiness. The first thing to be said is that this silly but offbeat supernatural meller is unusually well shot for a genre cheapie of the era, and that SW's DVD print transfer is a knockout-the colors just pop, and some of the photography of the swamp is very beautiful.
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