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Haunted Castle
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In a radical departure from traditional IMAX film making, Haunted Castle is the first ever giant-screen scary movie. With jaw-dropping 3D animation , the film thrusts its audience straight into the depths of the surreal underworld of the castle. There is no escape from the chilling action as rock musician Johnny battles against the custodian of the castle, the evil Mr D, to free the soul of his dead mother. In a nail biting journey through the bowels of the castle he encounters terrifying spirits and tortured souls but eventually manages to find Mr D’s Achilles heel – opera.
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Haunted Castle is the psytrance project of Gerõ Hortobágyi and Gergõ Bocsi from Budapest, Hungary. Both of them have been making psychedelic music seperately for a couple of years now (Gerõ - Longhi, Psybetyárok with Kerekes Csaba /Nasca/, Gergõ - Acid goblins with Ádám Szigeti). After meeting in 2005, they started making psychedelic music together, and with the help of a few computer programs they began to focus on developing their own style.They are now working on a more horroristic powertrance sound for some upcoming compilations on different labels. Their music can be described as hard and fast, with twisted melodies and strange synthwork, that leaves you breathless with no place to hide.
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In 1988, Haunted Castle earned its own distinctions: It was the franchise's first arcade representative, its second non-Castlevania title, and only the series' third entry. As in the case of Akumajo Dracula for the Famicom Disk System (FDS), Haunted Castle (which ... shares the name Akumajo Dracula in Japan) came about as a direct result of Konami attempting to capitalize on the intuitive formulas of Vampire Killer, the MSX2 adventure from 1986 that we acknowledge as the origin of the series. Though, Haunted Castle's creation is shrouded in mystery and speculation: As lore has it, the Konami team that created Vampire Killer was to bring it to the Famicom Disk System as a newly designed side-scrolling game. By then, most of Vampire Killer's staff had shifted elsewhere and was working on something similar. The result was two separate games sharing the same name--one for the Famicom Disk System and another for the arcades.
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Loyal fans will undoubtedly be quick to snatch the game up; at roughly $20, its price is fairly reasonable, and it represents the first time Haunted Castle has ever appeared on a home console. The real question is: Will anyone besides Castlevania fanatics want to bother? It's a simple enough question, and the answer is equally straightforward:
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The purpose of the Haunted Castle walk-through dark ride was to entertain its customers by frightening them. Exterior decorations included plastic monsters, skulls and other features meant to create a frightening atmosphere. A facade of false turrets and towers lent the illusion of height to the one-story structure, completing the look of a forbidding medieval castle. After crossing a drawbridge over the surrounding moat, visitors entered the castle and felt their way along a 450-foot-long convoluted path of dim corridors, occasionally being startled when employee actors dressed as Dracula, Frankenstein and other creatures jumped from hiding. Various theatrical props and exhibits were in view, including coffins, ghoulish mannequins, hanging spider webs and skeletons. Strobe lights and eerie sounds completed the scene.[1]
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Haunted Castle is coming to be known largely as the 3-D movie the IMAX Corporation didn't want to be released on its screens. With some decidedly gruesome elements (of torture; though none of these is terribly shocking, really), the worry was in making too extreme and too controversial a leap from its largely G-rated family fare. Fortunately for the Belgian production company that produced the film, this--ultimately unsuccessful--censorship effort gave the movie (as these things often do) much more press than it likely would have had otherwise. Hype or no, Haunted Castle is a fun moviegoing experience.
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