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Nooo noo this is a VERY nice DVD and you should get it. Even if filmed for widescreen it works very well at 1:33 and has gorgeous color, a fabulous music track, some great murder scenes that border on ghoulish cartoons and it's such a good movie THAT EVEN I AM NOW INTO THIS STUFF; This was my first official Edgar Wallace movie and I did not know it was Edgar Wallace until seeing it on the screen, just tossed in the DVD to find out what the hell it was.

In all honesty the first time I watched it I hated the movie. It struck me as smug and smarmy and self consciously hip, but after someone made me think twice I realized that it's just solid German kitsch, using the swagger of James Bond circa 1967 as the template. The gadgets and killing gimmicks are right out of the 007 handbook but with a decidedly Germanic twist in the direction of goth that is very reminiscent of a comic book. SOME of the movie does not work, specifically the comic relief character. But it's a fabulous movie and a one of the best looking fullframe DVDs I have enjoyed next to maybe KILLER FISH out of Italy. Get it for like $8 from amazon.com, it's one of my favorites from 2005, a nice low profile release of a nifty, ghoulish little kind of film where the lead villain has an ALLIGATOR PIT where the unworthy are tossed to pay for their failures.

YES!!



Correction: STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE and of course KING KONG were my first Wallace films, but as evidenced by my forgetting about them entirely they have been a part of the pop culture I ascribe to for so long that I don't even think about them specifically as Edgar Wallace oriented productions.