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Undescribable Perfection

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The script is a muddled, confused affair, full of holes, inconsistencies and ridiculous dialogue. Even on its own juvenile level, the shallow characterizations and comic-strip dialogue betray the efforts of an amateur storyteller who has a knack for dramatic incidents and surprises, a feeling for mood and atmosphere, but difficulties with characters, activation and dialogue.Some of the motivations are just plain silly. Admittedly, the actors make an eager stab at their roles, but it is with the scenery and the sets that the director really excels. The camera beautifully captures the stark atmosphere of the Turkish locations and glides with reasonable fluidity through some truly terrifying sets and effects.

With a title like "Crypt Of The Living Dead" I guess I was expecting a little more in the way of zombie spectacle. Not that I'm particularly a fan of that type of genre, but you have certain expectations. What the picture lacks in horror and gore is suitably replaced by creepy atmosphere, which is probably the highlight of the film. In my case, the print I viewed was quite poor in sound quality; it was part of a twenty film DVD pack from Mill Creek Entertainment, and as one other viewer mentioned, the black and white format was certainly preferred for the subject matter. I actually learned more about the story from some of the other reviewers on this board than from watching the flick, but then again, I was able to pick up all the information I needed from a handful of scenes that moved the story along.OK, so Hannah (Teresa Gimpera) 1269 is a vampire looking none the worse for wear and fresh as a daisy from a seven hundred year long dirt nap. A little weak in the knees, her transformation into a werewolf is designed to buy time by feasting on other animals while gaining strength to do in some eventual humans. Not a bad concept, and actually quite sensible when you get right down to it. What really distracted me from the story was every single appearance of Andrew Prine on screen as Chris Bolton investigating his father's death. He looked like he could be the spitting image of a guy I knew about twenty years ago who's since passed away. That just added a certain intangible creepiness to the whole story for me.Anyway, you won't miss a whole lot if you pass on this one, but at the same time it's not the worst flick to while away a quick seventy five minutes. I'm still puzzled by the idea of a guy in a caveman get-up, but there's not enough there to get hung up about.

Know it all Andrew Prine (whatever happened to him?) shows up on an island to deal with the body of his father. While there he stumbles into those superstitious movie people who, of course, know a lot more than he does. You need to ask yourself why they stay or don't seek help. But he, being the rational, twentieth century man, takes no stock in their beliefs. Of course, eventually he is pulled into the mystery and must act. He falls in love with a young schoolteacher who is in the middle of everything. There is a centuries' old vampiress who is haunting the island. The natives have tried to get rid of her but to no avail. It's very predictable and mostly dull, but there are a few scary moments and some great fangs. There is a tag added at the conclusion which everyone can see coming. Oh well. It's pretty common fair and not worth the time of most people.

For the most part, Crypt of the Living Dead or Young Hannah: Queen of the Vampires or Vampire Women is a throughly retched movie. All you really need to know about the story is that 700 year old Hannah is released from her tomb on an almost uninhabited island. She bites a few locals and is then dispatched herself. There are so many negative things to say about this film that I'll just mention a few that really bothered me.One, Hannah has got to be the slowest vampire in the history of movie vampires. I've heard complaints about the slow moving Bela Lugosi in Dracula. Bela is like Carl Lewis compared with Hannah.Two, the characters do not act in a logical manner. I'm not talking about logic as you and I know it, but these people don't even act according to "horror movie logic". For example, a big deal is made about the effect of dog's bane(sp) on Hannah. In one scene, it is used to get Hannah to release the movie's hero. Once free of her clutches, he immediately goes after her. But, does he bother to take the dog's bane that was just used to save his life - NO.Third, nothing really happens in the movie. I'm not talking about a slow story. Instead, I'm talking about no story. There is a great long section of the film (the first hour or so) where, literally, nothing happens. It's not till the slow moving Hannah is awakened to prey upon the illogical victims on the island that anything seems to happen.