- Actors: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom
- Directors: Paul Wendkos
- Writers: Ben Maddow, Fred Mustard Stewart
- Producers: Arthur Fellows, Quinn Martin
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Fox Video
- VHS Release Date: Oct 16 2001
- Run Time: 115 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6301331397
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#10,555 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #39 in Video > Horror > Things That Go Bump > Occult
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Absolute Waste of Time,
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This review is from: Mephisto Waltz (VHS Tape)
A bad Rosemary's Baby rip-off. Terrible acting, terrible dialoge, and a terrible plot. Buy this movie only if you enjoy getting a root canal.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Alan Alda Sells His Soul Cheap- Right On, Dude!,
This review is from: Mephisto Waltz (VHS Tape)
I am a huge fan of M*A*S*H so when I was flipping through the channels and saw Alan Alda's name in the credits of a movie about satanism, I thought "this is gonna be good." Alda plays a pianist (I love saying that word...hehe) who sells his soul to the devil to become a master of his craft. This is really a cool idea, since traditionally satan has been associated with phenomenal musical talent (just think of the rumors about Led Zeppelin selling their souls to the devil for fame). A lot of really cool stuff happens in The Mephisto Waltz, and there's lots of melodrama and screaming and overacting, and dun-dun-dun....suspense! My favourite part of this movie was the ending. Alan Alda must have been starving, since he looked like he was ready to eat the face off of the chick he was kissing! (I won't say who that chick is; it's a surprise) That's what I call love, satan style! The ony thing I didn't like was all the use of blue light and halluciantion techniques of the Scottish rite. Congrats to the director, though. You earned your middle degrees of freemasonry well.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent occult thriller with a surprising end, worth to be seen,
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This review is from: Mephisto Waltz (VHS Tape)
This is one of the best occult thrillers ever made. Direction, acting, cinematography and the music score are superb as is the script based on the Fred Mustard Stewart novel with the same title. Curd Juergens plays a famous concert pianst and Barbara Parkins his adoring incestuous daughter. Wanting to make their illicit love eternal they feel compelled to make ritualistic human sacrifices to Satan. The film aided by an excellent Jerry Goldsmith score manages to create an unsettling and more and more threatening atmosphere as the true nature of these two becomes clearer and a journalist played by Alan Alda gets drawn into their web. His wife, played by Jacqueline Bisset, sees the imminent danger in nightmares. These dream sequences that gradually unveil the shocking truth are extremely well filmed and the music enhances the emotional impact even further. This one is a real chiller with some very frightening moments and a very surprising end. Its many disturbing images will haunt you for quite some time. It proves that elegant filmmaking becomes the horror genre very well. I can recommend The Mephisto Waltz unconditionally and hope that it will be released also on DVD someday.
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