{"id":6817,"date":"2011-10-31T23:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T03:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:20:06","slug":"the-haunted-castle-1921-fw-murnau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6817","title":{"rendered":"The Haunted Castle (1921, FW Murnau)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A silly-ass mystery film with little of the grand style of Murnau&#8217;s later films.  Also: the castle isn&#8217;t haunted, and it&#8217;s not a scary movie, and Kino knew that when they gave it that goth-expressionist cover art.  All was forgiven when Julius Falkenstein of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6520\">The Oyster Princess<\/a><\/em> showed up, got scared and had a <em>Nosferatu<\/em>-prefiguring dream sequence.<\/p>\n<p>D. Cairns already gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/the-forgotten-the-unheimlich-maneuver\">terrific write-up<\/a> of this movie last month, so there&#8217;s little I can add, except that the story revolves partly around a fake beard that I spotted the moment I saw it (then a close-up revealing the character&#8217;s &#8220;bald&#8221; head to be a cap confirmed that even in the film&#8217;s reality, this is a fake beard).<\/p>\n<p>Plot concerns a count named Oetsch who comes uninvited to a hunting party at the Vogeloed castle, sits stewing in the corner while everyone gossips about how he murdered his brother the baron a couple years&#8217; back.  The brother&#8217;s widow, now remarried, is an invited guest, mostly stays in her room avoiding the count.  Meanwhile a priest (the count with the fake beard) wanders about then disappears.  Somehow this all makes the baroness&#8217;s new husband admit his guilt in the ex-husband-slaying, letting the count off the hook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A silly-ass mystery film with little of the grand style of Murnau&#8217;s later films. Also: the castle isn&#8217;t haunted, and it&#8217;s not a scary movie, and Kino knew that when they gave it that goth-expressionist cover art. All was forgiven when Julius Falkenstein of The Oyster Princess showed up, got scared and had a Nosferatu-prefiguring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,432,122],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-fw-murnau","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","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=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}