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Directed by | Stuart Gordon |
Produced by | Albert Band Charles Band Maurizio Maggi |
Written by | Stuart Gordon Dennis Paoli H. P. Lovecraft |
Starring | Jeffrey Combs Barbara Crampton Jessica Dollarhide Jonathan Fuller |
Music by | Richard Band |
Cinematography | Mario Vulpiani |
Edited by | Bert Glatstein |
Running time | 90 min. (95 min: USA uncut release) |
Release date(s) | November 14, 1995 |
Castle Freak is a 1995 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, roughly based upon the short-story The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft. It has elements of splatter/slasher films and references to Creature Features.
Synopsis
After inheriting a 12th century castle who belonged to a famed Duchess, John Reilly and his family travel to Italy to live there. Unbenownst to them, the duchess' son still lives in the dungeons of the castle. He breaks free, and tries to harm John and his family, killing others in the process. John must now save himself and his family from this castle's unknown inhabitant before the "castle freak" has his way with them.
Cast
- Jeffrey Combs - John Reilly
- Barbara Crampton - Susan Reilly
- Johnathan Fuller - Giorgio
- Jessica Dollarhide - Rebecca Reilly
- Massimo Sarchielli - Giannetti
- Elisabeth Kaza - Agnese
- Luca Zingaretti - Forte
- Helen Stirling - Duchess D'Orsino
- Alessandro Sebastian Satta - JJ
- Raffaella Offidani - Sylvana
- Marco Stefanelli - Benedetti
- Tunny Piras - Grimaldi
- Rolando Cortegiani - Tonio
- Carolyn Purdy-Gordon - The Gelato People
- Suzanna Gordon - The Gelato People
- Jillian Gordon - The Gelato People
- Margaret Gordon - The Gelato People