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Stronghold

Crime · Drama

Stronghold

The brutal ordeal of a family held in the grip of blood crazed killers.

5.9(17) 3/14/1985 1h 33m
CrimeDramaThriller

Wildschut starts with a violent casino robbery in Knokke. Criminals Jim and the badly wounded Charlie flee with the loot, but their car breaks down in the foggy Flemish countryside. They seek shelter and break into 'Wildschut', a remote, run-down farmhouse.The gangsters immediately take the resident Deleye family hostage. After Charlie dies from his injuries, the psychopathic Jim is left alone with the captives. A tense psychological mind game unfolds, filled with threat and humiliation as Jim plays the family members against each other.While a local police chief starts a clumsy search, tension builds to a boiling point. The father tries to fight back, leading to a bloody, explosive finale where the survivors must do anything to escape Jim's madness.If you want, I can also translate the film review into English, or provide the English cast list and international titles.AI-reacties kunnen fouten bevatten. Meer informatie

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Top Cast

Hidde Maas

Hidde Maas

Jim

JM

Jack Monkau

Charlie

Annick Christiaens

Annick Christiaens

Lisa

Josse De Pauw

Josse De Pauw

Deleye

Chris Lomme

Chris Lomme

Sybil

Marc Van Eeghem

Marc Van Eeghem

Hugo

BO

Bert Onraedt

Baby Ruben

Wv

Werther van der Sarren

Dalsum

Directed by

Bobby Eerhart

Production

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

9/10

1/10/2023

We need more films like this. Clearly the budget was pretty small. We saw the same cut of a helicopter swooping for no reason several times. In fact at the start, maybe within the first few minutes, we saw a lot of the same cuts of the military advancing. The locations were few, also scouted on the cheap. In fact, nothing was too over-the-top Fx wise, location wise, even extras wise. But is still managed to be tense and entertaining. In conveyed at times an extremely claustrophobic atmosphere without actually leaving the farm house. It conveyed a real sense of danger (amped up by the presence of a baby in a looming shoot out). And it was all done on the cheap... but then again it was a Dutch film from the 80s, but cheap as far as Hollywood standards go. That actually says a lot of

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