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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305939610
Format: Color, Director's Cut, Original recording reissued, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 6305939616
Label: Full Moon Home Video
Manufacturer: Full Moon Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Full Moon Home Video
Release Date: November 25, 1997
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 41164
Studio: Full Moon Home Video
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
John Reilly (Jeffrey Combs) has come to Italy with wife and blind daughter in tow to arrange for the sale of his newly inherited castle. Unbeknownst to these folks, the duchess who willed the castle to Reilly kept her kid shackled in the dungeon, lambasting him regularly with a wicked cat-o'-nine-tails. Though the duchess is gone, the eponymous freak remains, now fully grown. As the family moves into the castle to await its sale, internal conflicts concerning Reilly's guilt over the blinding of the daughter, and the blame from his wife, further fracture their unstable family unit. Castle Freak escapes his shackles in search of food, and more importantly human warmth. The Freak just doesn't know how to express his need for love in a socially acceptable way, however, and seems destined for an unsavory end at the hands of the something-to-prove Reilly, who must find some way to route to vicious creature. But there's more than one way to skin a cat (though they only use one of those ways in this picture). Fitting addition to the oeuvre of splatter specialist Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator). --Jim Gay
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A decent horror flick
From stuart gordan and jeffery combs comes castle freak.this movie isnt as bad as some the reveiws say.i thought it was good.the only thing is that it takes awhile for the veiwer to accually see the freak but once the killing and gore start its an enjoyable movie.jeffery combs plays his part with no dark humor which i thought was gonna suck but it wasnt bad.it shows that he dosent rely just on dark humor to make a good part.the freak looks absolutly UGLY and the make up was excellent on him.for the ... Read More
Rating: - I Don't Know Who's Sloppier; The "Freak" or Stuart Gordon?
Well, the freak isn't actually a "freak". He's more the product of poor parenting (that's putting it mildly). I haven't seen everything Stewart Gordon has done, but I've seen enough to know he always had the potential to make a less than stellar film. "Castle Freak" is the evidence. The title of this film conjures up so many ghoulishly delightful images in ones mind. My imagination had all kinds of demented scenarios for this film. None of them were quite as lifeless as this. While trying to ... Read More
Rating:  - Best offering from Full Moon
Castle Freak is one of my favorite horror movies.
of it's type..
It's not a slasher but some slashing occurs.
I think I like it so much because the Castle Freak is so realistic looking and scary.As I mentioned about the creature in my
review of "The Funhouse"..no matter how hideous The monster is, he is still humanized enough in the story for you to feel sorry for him at times..He has the same needs and desires as other men do but is a product of his deformity and environment. ... Read More
Rating: - DARK MOVIE THAT ECHOS OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT.
'Castle Freak' is a 1995 straight-to-video movie directed by Stuart Gordon and is adapted from H.P.Lovecraft's short story 'The Outsider'. It stars Jeffery Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jessica Dollarhide, and Johnathan Fuller.
Out story starts out in an isolated 12th century castle in Italy, we see the resident, and elderly dutchess who seems to be somewhat senile, preparing some food in the kitchen/pantery. She then takes a plate of bread across the castle grounds to another wing and into ... Read More
Rating: - Sadly Underrated... Excellent Horror Film !
Stuart Gordon's "Castle Freak" is a fun and creepy classic. I personally love this flick. The acting is well done, the story is quite a chiller and the "Freak" has got to be one of the most ghastly, realistc & underrated monsters within the world of horror films. There is a sprinkle of cheese on top of what is mostly a solid substance filled scary movie. I also enjoy the straight fowardness of it. What I mean is with Re-Animator we get zombies(not real) and with From Beyond we get fantasy horror(again ... Read More
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