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Stuart Gordon takes you on a pulse-pounding rollercoaster ride in CASTLE FREAK... one of the most macabre thrillers you ll ever experience. John Reilly (Jeffrey Combs RE-ANIMATOR), Susan (Barbara Crampton FROM BEYOND) and their daughter come face to face with terror when they travel to Italy to move into a castle they have inherited. They soon discover it is haunted by a relentlessly blood-thirsty creature. When mutilated bodies start turning up, John must uncover the Reilly family s dark secret to save his wife and child from the sadistic being.... FEATURES INCLUDE: NEWLY RESTORED IN HD, WIDESCREEN PICTURE IN ORIGINAL 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, NEWLY CREADTED DTS-HD MA 5.1 MIX, ORIGINAL REMASTERED DTS-HD MA STEREO AUDIO MIX, MAKING OF DOCUMENTARY, THEATRICAL TRAILER, FULL MOON TRAILER PARK, REVERSIBLE SLEEVE INCORPORATING ORIGINAL ARTWORK.
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Jeffrey Combs/ Reanimator series House on the Haunted Hill From Beyond
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Stuart Gordon redressed his pointless attempt at the vampire genre from 1987 with 'The Pit And The Pendulum' and this 90s horror-it would stay the best horror of the 90s alongside Wes Craven's 'People Under The Stairs' until his 'Scream' appeared. And while this is not as grand as the Stu's perfect 80s horror trilogy of 'Re-Animator', 'From Beyond' and 'Dolls', this creepy, claustrophobic nerve-tingler frays the nerves, pounds the stomach and delivers atmopshere, shocks and horror with pleasing reliability.
Gordon's stalwarts Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are a married couple on permanent edge due to his drinking and a car accident that took their young son away and blinded their daughter. These three inherit a castle in Italy-and sadly something comes with it...something crazily angry, brutalised, savage, strong and with a taste for freedom-and flesh.
It's lovely to have this transfered to DVD-especially as the old VHS copy I had had several key scenes of delightful nastiness spliced-how rude! When a film is as intense as a Stuart Gordon one, you know you are not going to get a happy ending but the ride will be a worthy one. There's even a little bit of chit-chat and FX leftover for an extras gift on the disc-this will come up on the menu; there is no mention of it on the back of the DVD case.
This is a good price and a decent movie with a cool monster and a nice wallow in proper horror when it meant so much more than the stanglehold of neverending non-horror slashers, cannibals, A-listers being dead-and-not-knowing-it, remakes and biopics of serial killers masquerading as terror today!
Gordon's stalwarts Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are a married couple on permanent edge due to his drinking and a car accident that took their young son away and blinded their daughter. These three inherit a castle in Italy-and sadly something comes with it...something crazily angry, brutalised, savage, strong and with a taste for freedom-and flesh.
It's lovely to have this transfered to DVD-especially as the old VHS copy I had had several key scenes of delightful nastiness spliced-how rude! When a film is as intense as a Stuart Gordon one, you know you are not going to get a happy ending but the ride will be a worthy one. There's even a little bit of chit-chat and FX leftover for an extras gift on the disc-this will come up on the menu; there is no mention of it on the back of the DVD case.
This is a good price and a decent movie with a cool monster and a nice wallow in proper horror when it meant so much more than the stanglehold of neverending non-horror slashers, cannibals, A-listers being dead-and-not-knowing-it, remakes and biopics of serial killers masquerading as terror today!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By JUAN MARTIN GABASTOU
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Format:DVD
A really nice b-horror movie by Reanimator's and many other cult films director Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as in that very same debut film. Man no wonder I'd never seen this on the telly before. I'm a veteran gore/horror film connaisseur and thought nothing could surprise me anymore, but this puppy did ! Lots of revulsive gore/nudity/cruelty/explicit sex combined will make you send your children to bed early. Seriously, this film deserves an X rating at the very least (and I'm no moralist ! ). Cruel as few other films, the plot is solid and develops to a tragic and impressive grand finale in the style of the big classics (no I'm not telling you the argument) . Good if somewhat poor special effects more than made up for by the aforementioned characteristics. The dvd trasnfer, on the other side, deserves a separate commentary. 4:3, direct-from-vhs transfer with many a dropout and a picture that's veiled with a white mist, with no blacks to speak of, poor definition and little color, but all of this flaws can be corrected quite satisfactorily with the TV controls. The sound is 2.0 and OK if you just bother to switch you loudness control on. Highly recommendable !!!! 1995 - 93'.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By hanna_chloe
Format:DVD
Just picked this one up from HMV today. Not going to comment on the film itself, you can find all the info you need elsewhere on the web (or the other reviews here!) but I thought I'd say how impressed I was with 88Films efforts to release some old classics in the UK. I can't help but feel they've put real passion into their release. 88's version of CF is much cleaner in both video and audio than the US release (sharper image/wide screen, clearer audio) and has a great reversible sleeve for fans of original poster art, although the new cover made me mistake the film for a new release at first glance - which is no bad thing (It can fit nicely in my modern horror collection as well as my old school collection!). Another highlight is their 'trailer park' feature which lets you enjoy 10 trailers for other full moon films without telling you what the film is before watching the trailer!
Good work 88 films, I'm currently on amazon to see and buy some others you've released!
-HC
Good work 88 films, I'm currently on amazon to see and buy some others you've released!
-HC
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific for what it offers...
Using H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider" as a starting point, Stuart Gordon again teams with actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, writer Dennis Paoli, exec. Read more
Published 11 months ago by A. Moncrieff
5.0 out of 5 stars
>>>WIDESCREEN<<< YES PLEASE!!!
This movie is directed by awesome man Stuart Gordon who also directed Re-Animator, Pit and the Pendulum and From Beyond! Read more
Published 12 months ago by HorrorHound
5.0 out of 5 stars
"..CLASSIC RETRO HORROR.."
This is a pretty awesome Stuart Gordon horror movie, certainly one of his best after Re-animator, this was made in 1995 and stars the brilliant Jeffrey Combs who is in most of... Read more
Published 12 months ago by S. Drury
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hideous... hungry... and loose!
A warring couple, together with their blind teenage daughter are staying in a castle in Italy that they've inherited. Read more
Published 23 months ago by West25
5.0 out of 5 stars
Castle Freak [DVD] (Film2000 release)
Very Good release: a lot of additional materials and the picture has a 4:3 transfer Open Matte. Thanks for the release FILM2000!
Published on 3 Oct 2010 by Dzimitry Anisavets
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