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Rasputin - The Mad Monk
UK 1966
produced by
Anthony Nelson-Keys for Hammer
directed by Don Sharp
starring Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Suzan Farmer, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews
written by John Elder (= Anthony Hinds), music by Don Banks
Rasputin
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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When monk Rasputin (Christopher Lee) heals an innkeeper's wife with the power of his own hands, they do
have a celebration, but when he then seduces the innkeeper's daughter,
this is just bopund to spell trouble - & soon Rasputin is expelled
from his convent. Freed of his duties, he heads for St. Petersburg to
use his powers for his own good. Soon, he starts an affair with Barbara
Shelley, one of the Tsarina's ladies-in-waiting, & uses his hypnotic
powers over her, making her cause an accident of the Tsarina's son,
& by healing him gain the Tsarina's trust. But as his power over the
Tsarina grows, he treads over just a few heads too many, thus some of
his enemies are just bound to decide on killing him. In the end, he is
poisoned by Dr. Zargo (Richard Pasco), the only man he thought harmless
enough to be his friend & associate - in best horror-tradition, he
just lives long enough to kill Zargo too, though.
Rather a step away from Hammer's (then) traditional field of
horror-movies into historic drama-territory - but sitll filled with
enough mystery & gruesome scenes (e.g. Christopher Lee chopping off
the hand of an adversary, throwing acid into the face of another) to not
fall out with Hammer's output entirely. The movie itself is pretty much
Christopher Lee's though, giving a solid performance as the mad &
maddened monk, the film's story on the other hand is pretty weak, with
the proceedings unfolding just a tad too slowly & the supporting
characters seeming pretty lifeless, not at all helped by pretty mediocre
performances.
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