Diary entries forCastle Freak
Castle Freak
Cheesy insane fun, with another fantastic Jeffrey Combs performance. When Stuart Gordon was enjoying his work, it always showed If you can't smile at a woman discovering she's dealing with a monster when the camera cuts to an attempted genital fondling only to discover there's only deformities there, I don't know what you want out of low budget horror
Castle Freak
Very glad I didn't trust my gut and fall asleep during the merely-boring bad first 90 minutes so I was wide awake and alert for the wtf bad final 20 minutes and the laugh-out-loud bad midcredits scene As someone who really does try to not pull the "why remake this and have a worse film" card: why remake this and have a worse film
Castle Freak
i did not expect this movie to be so rape-y. a deformed freak would have been disturbing enough without the rape/attempted rape.
Castle Freak
"Hideous, hungry, and loose" — Yeah, I haven't heard of a more accurate tagline. Castle Freak's madman is a pretty terrifying one to look at — grotesque, bloody, and eventually blanketed by a torn sheet to make it even more creepy — and it doesn't help that the thing is incredibly sneaky. This Stuart Gordon horror is honestly better than you'd predict when considering the basic straight-to-video title, and not to mention the certain premise that naturally follows with such name. What could be carried out as cheesy is instead a gripping enough story of a couple's rocky relationship with a traumatic past, and unfortunately it's taking place under the same roof of an understandably messed up madman who was abused as a child and left in a locked room in the depths of the castle. Castle Freak doesn't really seem to get its premise right until the third act, which is all things exciting and gross, even if it does end up painting an awful husband and father as a hero. Still, it's ever so cool to see Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton together in yet another Stuart Gordon feature.
