The Castle of Otranto - Film Adaptations

Film Adaptations

Jan Švankmajer directed a Surrealist short film in 1979 based on the novel. It took the form of a pseudo-documentary frame story in live action with an abridged adaptation of the story itself presented in cut-out animation in the style of Gothic art.

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