Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Very slow, atmospheric, acting OK, Not recommended Most of the acting sucked. The painters acting was the best. He actually looks like Christopher Lee and is a better actor than Lee. Some killings were good, but the whole story was slow and needed a much better script. The cinematography was good, and the movie had atmosphere. It's a mystery but not enough clues given to solve this mess. The ending was spelled out, too contrived to wrap this thing up.Rating is a C- for effort, or 4 stars. I cannot recommend. But if you do watch, there are a few interesting scenes.

The plot = An obsessed sculptor kills a young woman to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Then years later at his secluded home, his son and his wife and some of they're friends travel there for a few days, only to be picked off one by one, is the sculptor or is it someone else.I've seen this movie a few times on late night TV, and it's always been a bit of a head scratcher for me, is it supposed to be a drama or is it supposed to be a horror. Of course it's a horror movie, as halfway through we see the cast get picked off one by one. The supernatural element kicks in when one of the characters starts having nightmares of an unknown force, which later becomes crucial when the killer is revealed.Supposed to be a horror film, Crucible of Terror is more a drama. As a drama, it is adequate, but there is nothing particularly notable about it, and it tends to drag on for way too long before anything actually happens.Even when the cast is started getting murdered There is no gore, and no graphic violence. The longest of these murder scenes is probably 20 seconds. And there is no follow through. A short murder scene occurs, we're never shown what happens to the bodies, and no one is overly concerned that anyone is missing. In fact, the most sustained "horror" element is the artist's pursuit of the dealer's significant other. She is frightened of him and there is an effective extended chase sequence that ends with the woman being pursued through an atmospherically spooky abandoned mine (probably the best scene of the film). She reminds the artist of the woman bronzed in the beginning and, despite the fact that he hadn't "executed" any sculptures recently, he has the same plan for her.All in all not great but not awful there are some redeeming features about this flick but other than that, this doesn't bring anything new to the horror genre.

I saw this thing in part on late night TV in the seventies. Being a mere lad at the time, I was taken a back at how gory the killings were and surprized in retrospect that it wasn't cut for TV. I found this flick recently in a $5.00 bin put out by STAR CLASSICS. I wanted to see what I'd think of it now, so I bought it. Now I wasn't surprised that at that price it was a cheezy 16mm VHS copy in the LP mode, but I was surprised that all the gory scenes were cut out! Apparently, it was transfered from a more prudish television print! I see here that it's on DVD, but I ain't gonna buy the darn thing.. I would rent it though, just to see if it still holds the same impact it did for me so long ago..

There's more boring drama than horror in this chunk of British trash. The poor man's Christopher Lee, Mike Raven was a radio DJ who dabbled in the occult and tried to be the next big horror star of the 70s. He has a menacing look and some screen presence but films like this ruined his career. There are some brief and nasty murders to keep you awake but this film is hardly worth the effort. Me Me Lay, who would go on to appear in some notoriously gory Italian cannibal movies, appears under heavy makeup as a vengeful undead Japanese woman which was the highlight of this sorry excuse for a horror film.