{"id":18142,"date":"2025-11-11T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18142"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:59:47","slug":"castle-freak-1995-stuart-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18142","title":{"rendered":"Castle Freak (1995, Stuart Gordon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did Gordon get mixed up with Full Moon Entertainment?  Guess I shouldn&#8217;t act like he was in a position to choose his own studio, between <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15889\"><em>Fortress<\/em> and <em>Space Truckers<\/em><\/a> &#8211; at least this one&#8217;s a Lovecraft story.  Probably the only time the editor of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3505\">Puppet Master 2<\/a><\/em> worked with the cinematographer of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15007\">Dillinger Is Dead<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/castle1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Combs inherited a spooky castle, always a bad sign, arrives to claim it with his wife who hates him (Barbara Crampton in a thankless role) and blind daughter, and without their son who he recently killed in a drunken car crash.  And inside the castle lives the titular freak, who recently murdered its keeper\/tormentor, and now chews off its thumb to escape the cuffs and go exploring (finger-trauma handcuff escapes are becoming <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18143\">a theme<\/a> this <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18088\">month<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/castle2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Combs brings home a local hotgirl &#8211; she wanders into the castle and gets freaked (it chews her boobs off).  Combs is arrested because people are going missing, and you&#8217;d think it would help his case that the freak kills two more cops while their suspect is in custody, but Combs still has to conk a cop on the noggin and escape to save his imperiled family and battle the freak to their deaths on a rainy roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Gordon get mixed up with Full Moon Entertainment? Guess I shouldn&#8217;t act like he was in a position to choose his own studio, between Fortress and Space Truckers &#8211; at least this one&#8217;s a Lovecraft story. Probably the only time the editor of Puppet Master 2 worked with the cinematographer of Dillinger Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,395,3079,963,591,172,59],"class_list":["post-18142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-blindness","tag-finger-trauma","tag-full-moon-entertainment","tag-jeffrey-combs","tag-lovecraft","tag-stuart-gordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18162,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions\/18162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}