#nightmare castle

[goryhorroor]

put some respect on this italian gothic horror queen barbara steele's name

#an icon #a horror icon #horror #horror movies #the pit and the pendulum #black sunday #castle of blood #nightmare castle #the long hair of death #the horrible dr hitchcock #shivers #the butterfly room #the she beast #piranha #the ghost #silent scream #curse of the crimson altar #horroredit #moviesedit #filmedit #cinema #gothic horror #gothic #italian horror #barbara steele

[weirdlookindog]

Barbara Steele in Nightmare Castle (Amanti d'oltretomba, 1965)

#amanti d'oltretomba #nightmare castle #barbara steele #1965 #1960s movies #mario caiano #gothic horror

[nightmare-castle]

I want this game so bad, but I can't figure out how to download it. ;-; how do I download this game?

Man, me too…

When the game is released, there will be a download link posted here and on GameJolt. Probably itch.io as well.

I suppose this is probably a good time to reveal that the game release will no longer be a demo. I am working on completing all of Chapter 1, which is seven days of the game storyline (in classical visual novel format). The demo was originally just Day One, but considering how much material we’ve finished over the last two years, and the multiple enhancements/redesigns like animated sprites and new scripts we’ve worked on, I concluded that doing a full release of the completed first chapter of the game would be best - and only fair, since y’all have been waiting for so damn long.

#nightmare castle #undertale #game dev update

[mater-argento]

Barbara Steele in gothic horror.

#Barbara Steele #black Sunday #the pit and the pendulum #the horrible dr Hitchcock #the ghost #castle of blood #the long hair of death #terror creatures from the grave #nightmare castle #an angel for Satan #Mario bava #Roger corman #riccardo freda #antonio margheriti #massimo pupillo #mario caiano #gothic horror #gothic #horror movie posters #60s horror #horror

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Plenty Scary Movie 🎥... Nightmare Castle (1965) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #nightmarecastle #barbarasteele #60s #DVD #durandurantulsa #plentyscarymovie #8sThePlace #ktul #durandurantulsasplentyscarymovie

#movies #movie #horror #Nightmare Castle #Barbara Steele #60s #dvd #duran duran tulsa's plenty scary movie #duran duran tulsa #plenty scary movie #8's the place #ktul

[meimeikyu]

I think nightmares castle would be entirely magic based, and wouldnt be bound by any laws of reality bcs of that. The second you enter, its extremely unlikely ur getting out

I think rooms would rearrange themselves, areas would have impossible geometry, doors would lead to walls, windows into rooms, areas inside the castle that look and feel exactly like the outside.

I think itd be impossible to navigate by anyone other than nightmare fully, and would be especially impossible to navigate if anyone broke in.

Maybe itd be influenced by nightmare too, like rooms summoning mishapen and with shattered items when they're angry.

On topic: watch you make me feel like its halloween's mv, it is p much exactly how im picturing this

#utmv #nightmare sans #nightmare castle #my headcanons

[classichorrorloverblog]

#nightmare castle #barbara steele

[dorawinifredread]

#Nightmare Castle #Barbara Steele #Horror movies

[movieposters1]

#nightmare castle

[atenobear]

So I finally decided to upload this. I have had this comic done since may 31 (;ŏ﹏ŏ) but now it's up. this comic is inspired by a post by @nightmare-castle I thought of this little comic thanks to that post

link to post:

@studionovella

#nightmare castle #error sans #fresh sans #comic

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 14, 1971, Nightmare Castle debuted in Mexico.

Here's some new Barbara Steele art!

#nightmare castle #mario caiano #barbara steele #horror #horror movies #horror film #horror art #supernatural horror #gothic horror #gothic horror art #1960s #60s horror #italian horror #cult cinema #black and white art #midnight movies #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[yetihideout]

#barbara steele #nightmare castle #patrick cowley

[weirdlookindog]

Amanti d'oltretomba (1965)

AKA Nightmare Castle; The Faceless Monster; The Night of the Doomed; Lovers from Beyond the Tomb; Orgasmo

#amanti d'oltretomba #nightmare castle #barbara steele #helga liné #paul miller #1960s horror #1960s movies #1965 #mario caiano #gothic horror #horror movie poster

[nightmare-castle]

I kinda lied. This is another smaller update, because...

*cries silently*

Ahem - for some reason ClipStudio Paint did not like my old GPU. I fought and struggled with it for a year - sometimes it would display the correct resolution of an image, sometimes not. Brushes were just straight up broken most of the time. Exporting to any format was a nightmare as it wouldn't preserve quality. And forget anti-aliasing. It was either jagged edges or blur.

So when I managed to finally get everything colored and put into Live2D Cubism, it was a fucking mess, to say the least. Small mistakes or lack of quality is amplified a hundredfold in Live2D, and needless to say, with poor quality, incorrectly rendered files coming out of CSP when animated looked like hot flaming pixel garbage.

You can see the difference in the screenshot above, where I've opened the sketch image for Nightmare's sprite redesign from CSP into Medibang. All that shitty blurry worthless detritus is CSP, and the smoother lines drawn over are in Medibang. These two files are the same canvas size (4500 x 7200) and resolution (350ppi). The difference is ridiculous. I have a new GPU in a completely new PC now, and CSP works correctly more often but not always with my new hardware. So I'm abandoning it completely. Which sucks, because I did upgrade to 2.0 EX and paid for it. Waste of money and time.

So what does this mean for the game? It means I have to do all of the sprites over. Again. Which is a huge setback and so, so many hours of work. Each of these sprites, while I only have to do the art once for each, is extremely tedious with a zillion layers per sprite with all the little details and articulated pieces separated out. And then I have to go back into Live2D and re-map these new sprites to the animations, test everything, implement them in Unity, replacing all of those old sprites, reworking the code, testing, testing, and testing some more.

So it's gonna be a minute before I can do that big juicy update I wanna do to show off all the redesigned elements of the game. BUT IT'S GOIN', Y'ALL. Slowly but surely. We're getting it done.

also yes he no longer has the stupid jacket his emo phase is over he grew up and put on an old man sweater you're welcome

#nightmare castle #game dev update #nightmare #undertale #utmv #undertale fangame

[horrorcrypt12]

Nightmare Castle - Happy Halloween

#Nightmare Castle #disney dreamlight valley #dreamlight valley #gaming #halloween #happy halloween #nintendo switch

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/1-2/2023 - BLACK SUNDAY (1960), THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH, NIGHTMARE CASTLE

“Don’t be deceived by her face, look at her body!”

So one of the things that dragged me off my usual Blogtober course this year was a major project on Michele Soavi's DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (1994), whichis sort of a gift that keeps on giving because there are so many layers to it and so many available interpretations of what it contains. For this work I had to dig a lot deeper into the topic of doppelgängerism than I usually do; this is not a subject I've thought a lot about, maybe because it often breaks down into an Id vs Ego "duality of man" thing full of inevitable conclusions that I don't find that interesting to explore. I like the folkloric notion that if you encounter your own doppelgänger, it's a harbinger of your imminent demise, that's pretty scary. But most of the characters in DELLAMORTE are duplicates of other characters, to more and less obvious degrees--the clearest example of which is Anna Falchi as an unnamed woman who reappears in new incarnations throughout the movie. Because that movie is often identified as the Last Great Italian Horror Film, and is thus understood to survey historic achievements in the genre (while still maintaining its own incredible originality), I thought I should go back and look at the famous doppelgängers played by Barbara Steele in some of her early, influential roles. I mean let's be honest, it would be easy to just accuse Antonio Margheriti's THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH (1964) and Mario Caiano's NIGHTMARE CASTLE (1965) of riding the admittedly inviting jock of Mario Bava's indispensable classic BLACK SUNDAY (1960), but if we treat the continuous duplication of Barbara Steele as an archetypal fantasy worthy of address, that makes for a better conversation.

The superior BLACK SUNDAY concerns the 17th century vampire-witch Asa, who returns to life two hundred years later to usurp the life of her identical descendant Princess Katia. In THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH, a 15th century woman is burned as a witch, and her daughter Helen (Steele) is killed for trying to expose the corrupt underpinnings of her mother's execution. Helen's young sister grows up the plaything of the evil regime whose reign of power is only interrupted when the mysterious Mary (also Steele) arrives at the castle to make trouble. I find the convoluted plot of this movie especially hard to repeat, so I hope I'm getting it right! NIGHTMARE CASTLE doesn't involve anything like reincarnation, which makes it slightly easier to discuss: An evil scientist murders his conniving wife Muriel (Steele) so he can take everything she has, only to discover that she left it all to her identical stepsister Jenny. His plot to drive the fragile Jenny insane and take over the estate is foiled by Muriel's ghost, naturally. In DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, the self-replicating Anna Falchi signifies that the stunted protagonist is hopelessly deluded by his neurotic frustrations with women; he sees females as being "all the same" because he's blind to anything other than his personal projections, and he cyclically pursues the same drama with every woman he meets. One can't expect that level of psychoanalytic critique from these earlier films, of course, and while there is a lot one can say about the self-replicating Barbara Steele (including just how marketable she was), it's interesting to look at these stories in light of the tendency to identify mind with body.

Each of these movies has some great dialog that (at least in the english translation) has some very amusing things to say about the body and I tried to write them all down. The horror here may stem from the fact that while a woman's true value is in her physical appearance, that appearance can be a source of torment for presupposing men. NIGHTMARE CASTLE's Muriel makes the curiously-worded threat, “You can kill my body, but I’ll never leave you in peace!”, and in THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH, Helen's mother uses similar language in her last words at the stake—"Your bodies will be tortured like mine has been tortured today!” At LONG HAIR's climax (spoiler alert I guess, but this won't make the movie less confusing to the new viewer) the mysterious Mary reveals that she is really Helen with this wonderful body-centric speech about the complicated scam she and her little sister Lisbeth have pulled on the corrupt royal family:

"That’s my body. Death can often reinstate life, but it’s not like that with Lisabeth as she is not yet dead. Now do you understand Kurt, this was planned by us to vindicate our mother... You went to the extreme—murder—all for the sake of possessing me. It’s a pity that you did everything for a body that’s dead. Well Kurt, look at that body. Look well at the body that is really me!”

"Look well at the body that is really me" is something I am tempted to say all the time now, but this is all topped by Asa's triumph over the identical Katia toward the end of BLACK SUNDAY:

“You did not know that you were born for this moment. You didn’t know that your life had been consecrated to me by Satan. But you sensed it, didn’t you? That’s why my portrait was a constant temptation to you, why it frightened you! You felt that your life and your body were mine. You felt like me because you were destined to become me! A useless body without life... Now you shall enjoy a beautiful life of evil and hate—in me!”

There's something interesting going on in all these cases about how personal essence, or at least a person's destiny, is tied inextricably to the body. And actually, another of my distracting October projects focused on Michele Soavi's THE SECT (1991), an exceptionally weird movie by anyone's standards that involves a cult that appropriates other people's faces. I discovered that the film is kind of an adaptation of Gustav Meyrink's 1915 novel The Golem, which is a doppelgänger narrative par excellence, telling its disturbing tale from the point of view of a person who is himself a kind of doppelgänger. The narrator has a kind of transient consciousness that transplants itself into other people, but other doppelgängers exist as well: A lascivious young prostitute is said to be the child of a neighborhood predator, but as the story unfolds, it comes out that she is identical to her mother, who was identical to her mother before her, and there is no actual certainty about the paternity of any of these women. They form a collective, self-perpetuating threat whose weapon is a specific reoccurrant appearance. I don't know exactly what kind of conclusion I want to draw about this hydra-like archetype, but you may have guessed by now that my work on Soavi's filmography has caused me to start seeing doppelgängers everywhere I look, so you can bet this won't be the last time I talk about them!

#blogtober #2023 #horror #supernatural #witch #vampire #doppelganger #barbara steele #black sunday #the long hair of death #nightmare castle #mario bava #antonion margheriti #mario caiano #reincarnation #spaghetti nightmare #michele soavi #dellamorte dellamore