{"id":18343,"date":"2019-10-09T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18343"},"modified":"2019-10-09T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:56:44","slug":"classic-horror-movies-to-be-shown-at-craigdarroch-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/10\/09\/classic-horror-movies-to-be-shown-at-craigdarroch-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic horror movies to be shown at Craigdarroch Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craigdarroch Castle is hosting several classic horror films this month. It began with <i>Dracula <\/i>(1931) on October 3 and continues with <i>Frankenstein <\/i>(1931) on October 10, <i>House on Haunted Hill<\/i> (1959) on October 17, and <i>Nosferatu<\/i> (1922) on October 24. In addition to the films, actor Jason Stevens will be performing a one-man play of <i>Frankenstein<\/i> every Saturday in October at 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done live theatre for many years; we\u2019ve worked with <i>Dracula<\/i> and <i>Jekyll and Hyde<\/i>, so that in and of itself fit very well,\u201d says Craigdarroch Castle executive director John Hughes. \u201cThe audience was looking for something a little bit different, but they also told us they wanted a similar feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Craigdarroch Castle is especially suited to the movies being shown. The castle was inhabited at the time that Bram Stoker\u2019s <i>Dracula<\/i> was penned and when Mary Shelley\u2019s<i> Frankenstein <\/i>had already been adapted into a play\u2014twice. But what really elevates Craigdarroch Castle as a venue for classic horror is the aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d have to say it\u2019s the nature of the architecture, the massive, imposing exterior with all the big chimneys and the high, broad roofline,\u201d says Hughes. \u201cAnd because it\u2019s lit outside it gives you that kind of spooky effect, and, certainly once you get into the building, the lighting levels are low and the rich warm wood, it lends itself to the flavour of the films.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18344\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Craigdarroch-spooky-Photo-credit-Bruce-Davies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Craigdarroch-spooky-Photo-credit-Bruce-Davies-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Craigdarroch-spooky-Photo-credit-Bruce-Davies-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Craigdarroch-spooky-Photo-credit-Bruce-Davies.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craigdarroch Castle while being used for the movie <em>Spooky House<\/em> (photo by Brian Davies).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Choosing the movies was a process influenced by the live shows hosted at the castle over the years. Some of the movies being shown have had theatre adaptations performed at Craigdarroch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we started this process looking at some of the other performances that we\u2019ve done, because we\u2019ve done live theatre\u2026 We\u2019re looking for movies that fit within the timeframe that people inhabited the space, which was the Dunsmuirs,\u201d he says. \u201cThey weren\u2019t doing movies at the time, but the stories existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the event came from a situation several years ago, when the castle was playing host to a film crew.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were filming a movie here; we had to close for our typical Halloween season and we had a couple of evenings where the production team was not on site and we thought, you know what? Let\u2019s invite a couple of people in and run some black-and-white movies, and we had two showings over one Saturday one weekend and one Saturday the other weekend and they were very well received,\u201d says Hughes. \u201cSo when we decided to revisit our October programming, we went back to the success of those two presentations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lineup is full of classics, and they have no intention of changing it any time soon, but the schedule wasn\u2019t always just four films. Last year\u2014the first year the event was run\u2014included a fifth film. (All the October events will take place in the fourth-floor dance hall, up 87 stairs, with no elevators. The museum requests you don\u2019t wear stiletto heels, as they can damage the floors. Also note that all tickets must be purchased in advance.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did <i>Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/i> last year,\u201d says Hughes. \u201cI think the response was less enthusiastic, so we pulled it out of this year\u2019s rotation, but we might find that we might want to pull, say, <i>Nosferatu<\/i> and put <i>Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/i> back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the Halloween season is over, Craigdarroch Castle will begin preparing for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be bringing Jason Stevens back to do his one-man version of <i>A Christmas Carol<\/i>,\u201d says Hughes. \u201cThis is where Jason does all of the voices of all the characters, and it\u2019s a very cool thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Creepy Classic Movies at Craigdarroch Castle<br \/>\n6 pm Thursday, October 10, 17, and 24<br \/>\n$10-$12, Craigdarroch Castle<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thecastle.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thecastle.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craigdarroch Castle is hosting several classic horror films this month. It began with Dracula (1931) on October 3 and continues with Frankenstein (1931) on October 10, House on Haunted Hill (1959) on October 17, and Nosferatu (1922) on October 24. In addition to the films, actor Jason Stevens will be performing a one-man play of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-9-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18345,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions\/18345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}