Top cast:J. Warren Kerrigan,Charlotte Burton,Jack Richardson
Director:Vasili Goncharov&Yakov Protazanov
Genre:History
Region:Netherlands
Year:2009
Storyline:"The credits played, to the tune of "He""s Back (The Man Behind The Mask)" by Alice Cooper.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of approximately $3 million, and box-office gross revenues of $19.4 million (domestic).With the taglines: "Nothing this evil ever dies," and "Kill or be Killed!"Unlike many of the other installments, there was no nudity in this one.The group emerged from the mines into the magical forest of Lothlorien, ruled by the Lady of the Wood Queen Galadriel and her husband Lord Celeborn (Marton Csokas), where they found rest.Russell Crowe performed in the role of Superman""s (Kal-El) Kryptonite father Jor-El (played earlier by Marlon Brando), and Michael Shannon portrayed villainous General Zod on Krypton.The boundary-pushing film, with themes of corruption, sexual ambiguity and false dreams, was adapted from the grim 1966 Tony-winning Broadway stage production, which was in turn inspired by gay author Christopher Isherwood""s 1945Berlin Stories(including 1939""s short storyGoodbye to Berlin) and John Van Druten""s 1951 play and movieI Am a Camera (1955, UK).