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becomes painfully aware that a five-minute plot cannot be stretched into a 94-minute running time. Technically fares even worse. The sound quality is literally a disaster and dubbing is so poorly done that even though
Pleasence and Cushing are speaking English on film, their lip movements are off synch on the soundtrack! Editing is even worse, with scene changes cutting into dialogue...Both Donald Pleasence and Peter Cushing are hideously squandered..."
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David Miller calls the film "muddled story of ancient rites and blood sacrifice...The sound in the film is hollow and indistinct, the photography clumsy and the script feeble...far too much is made of the pagan idol, a pint-size statue of a minotaur with two gas-burners up its nose..." "looks
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formidable striding through the caves in his crimson robes."
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