I just got back from '1408' and the trailer for the film 'Captivity' was attached. I'm not one that is into films like Saw, Hostel, etc. But this trailer got my interest and made me really excited to see this film when it comes out.
The main reason- this movie seems to be about the infamous Murder Castle, or is directly inspired by the Murder Castle!!!
Yep, not just something made for scares- a slightly inspired by actual events type film... I'm sure they will stray, but the main concept of this guy's twisted mind and his murder castle probably remains intact- although not specifically stated.
Here is an except from that 'Inside the Legend':
The Murder Castle
The building was an imposing structure of three stories and a basement with false battlements and wooden bay windows that were covered with sheet iron. There were over 60 rooms in the structure and 51 doors that were cut oddly into various walls. And his favorite room- the basement with it’s dissection table and surgical tools and implements.
Holmes had an office on the second floor, but most of the rooms were to be used for the guests—guests that would never be seen again. There were secret hallways and closets connecting the seventy-one bedrooms. Holmes' Castle included soundproof sleeping chambers with peepholes, asbestos-padded walls, gas pipes, sliding walls, and vents that Holmes controlled from another room. Many of the rooms had low ceilings and trapdoors in the floors, with ladders leading to smaller rooms below. The doors could only be locked from the outside and all of his “prison rooms” were fitted with alarms that buzzed in Holmes’ quarters if a victim attempted to escape.
It has come to be believed that many of his victims were held captive months before their deaths. Evidence would later be found to show that Holmes used some of the rooms as “asphyxiation chambers,” where his victims were suffocated with gas. It was believed that Holmes placed his chosen victims into the special chambers into which he then pumped lethal gas, controlled from his own bedroom, and then watched them react. Apparently, he gained some fiendish pleasure from this activity. Sometimes he'd ignite the gas to incinerate them, or perhaps even place them on the "elasticity determinator," an elongated bed with straps, to see how far the human body could be stretched. When finished, he might have slid the corpses down the chutes into his cellar, where vats of acid and other chemicals awaited them.
'No Exit' Inside the Legend
Freaky stuff, huh? This guy, the real guy, still scares the crap out of me. It sounds like this film might be going straight back to that killer and his sick fetish for taking lives.
The trailer for the film reminded me so much of this story/place, that I thought I would hear the words 'Murder Castle' or the title would be 'Murder Castle.'
Check out the trailer for yourselves and tell me what you think. Inspired by the 'Murder Castle'? Or just a freaky coincidence that it seems to have ALOT in common with this dreadful and gruesome castle of death?
'Captivity' trailer
Although it doesn't look like the film will be about Mudgett or inspired by Mudgett. It does look to be directly inspired by his 'Murder Castle', which is the one aspect about this killer that still gives me nightmares.
Just thought I should let you guys know about this film and it's possible connection to the main guy and his "castle" that the season 2 episode ('No Exit') was about.