Dracula's Castle For Sale

[Ragingblues]

Just in case anyone here is interested in picking up a nice summer vacation home, Dracula's castle may be up for sale.

The price? Only 78 million dollars!

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001243.html

Even if the legend himself has vacated the premises, the price alone will kill you.

Ken

[pitfallharry]

How could they call it "Dracula's Castle" if Vlad never really even owned it? Sounds to me like he just stayed there off and on and then was imprisoned there for a short time.

I wonder if his grave is around there to further connect the whole area to the "legend".

Sounds and looks like a cool place to visit though.

I hope it goes to some preservation society that keeps it just as is. I'd hate to see it turned into a hotel and theme park with animatronic "Dracula's" scattered all over the place.

Although, that does sound like the premise of some B horror movie.

"A big hotel corporation buys the castle and begins turning it into a theme park but just before the grand-opening a group of teens who won a contest get to be the first to get a tour. Little do any of them know the legends are real and Dracula is accidentally woken from his centuries old sleep." ;D

[indianatone]

The ol' haunted house thing, eh, Pitfall? Amusement parks, business, and haunted houses.

Not a far cry from House on Haunted Hill.

[pitfallharry]

Never saw that one. Was that one of the ones that was remade? I've heard the name before though.

I'm really not into horror movies that much. I enjoy some but the majority of them are all crap....especially some of the newer ones. I think one big turn off for me is all of the gore. I think less is more and that you can scare an audience more effectively if they don't see everything because their own imaginations will do most of the work for you.

[indianatone]

House on Haunted Hill is a "fun" movie with just enough eerie moments to cause a slight heebie-jeebie dance, but it's not so gory. It's the "fun" aspect of the traditionally, comfortably scary, "trapped in the haunted place for a night" genre. It is a remake, though. Light, potentially scary, but fun. Not a gore flick. Yeah, those don't do much for me either. It's what you don't see or don't see enough of that makes things scary.