Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum
| Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum | |
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| Established | 1966 |
| Location |
90 Battle Street, Bristol, Connecticut |
| Type | Movie Memorabilia |
| Curator | Cortlandt Hull |
| Website | Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum |
The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum in Bristol, Connecticut is a collection of figures of classic movie monsters.
The museum is owned by Bristol-native Cortlandt Hull. Cortlandt is the great nephew of film actor Henry Hull. In 1966, Cortlandt's father helped him build the Swiss chalet-style building to house the museum. Cortlandt built life-size figures of classic movie monsters that were made of wax, fine wire mesh, papier-mache and polymers. The figures were later replaced with more accurate ones.
The museum is only open on weekend evenings during the month of October. The new location for "The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum" is in the 1890 building of "The Bristol Historical Society" on 98 Summer Street in Bristol, CT.
The heads of many of the figurines have been based on life-casts of the actual actors who portrayed them. Background sets and clothing are authentic to the era, with some costumes or props actually used in the original films. Characters represented in the museum are:
- Frankenstein's Monster (portrayed by Boris Karloff)
- Erik, The Phantom Of The Opera (portrayed by Lon Chaney Sr.)
- Zenobia, The Gypsy Witch (an original character voiced by June Foray)
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes (portrayed by Vincent Price)
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon (portrayed by Ricou Browning)
- Count Dracula (portrayed by Béla Lugosi)
- The Mole People
- Kharis, The Mummy (portrayed by Lon Chaney Jr.)
- Professor Henry Jarrod, from "House Of Wax" (portrayed by Vincent Price)
- The Fly (portrayed by David (Al) Hedison)
- The Wolf Man (portrayed by Lon Chaney Jr.)
- Nosferatu, Count Orlock (portrayed by Max Schreck)
- The Masque of the Red Death, from "The Phantom of the Opera" (portrayed by Lon Chaney Sr.)
A recent addition to the museum was a figurine of Dr. Wilfred Glendon, The Werewolf of London (portrayed by Henry Hull).
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See also
- Universal Horror
- Universal Monsters
References
- "Autumn in Connecticut: Things To Do". CNN. 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
- "Classic movie monsters don't die; They go to the Witch's Dungeon in Bristol". New Haven Register. 2002. Retrieved 2002-10-21.
- Yosafi, Sam (2001-10-15). "Movie museum offers artsy horror". The Tattoo teen newspaper. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
External links
- The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum (official website)