Castle Freak (1995 film)

Castle Freak is a 1995 low-budget horror film. Stuart Gordon (who was given a free hand in virtually all aspects of the film, but only a $500,000 budget) directed, Dennis Paoli and Gordon screenwrote, with mythos stalwart Jeffrey Combs starring in the lead male role and Barbara Crampton in the lead female. The four had previously worked together on Re-Animator, and From Beyond, partial adaptations of H. P. Lovecrafts' short stories "Herbert West--Reanimator" and "From Beyond" respectively.
The film was remade in 2020, although this version adds in specific references to elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, establishing itself as more of an Expanded Mythos work (see main article Castle Freak (2020 film)).
==Synopsis==
A grieving American family inherit a 12th-century castle in Italy, unaware that a homicidal and deformed man lies chained in the dungeons. When the man breaks loose, the family face a fight for survival.
==Trivia==
*Director Stuart Gordon stated that both he and scriptwriter Dennis Paoli drew their inspiration for Castle Freak from the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Outsider" Castle Freak at Wikipedia.
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