Filming Locations
Can anyone tell me if the castle was a studio set or was it a real castle?
Does anyone know what part of Romania this was filmed?
Thanks
Roly
It was just a set Christopher Lee stated that camera angles hide the fact that the castle is only one story high
shareYou are right the castle was a filming set, I've just watched Rasputin the Mad Monk and the set also appeared in this and Christopher Lee Character died in the same place in both films.
Roly
The movie was filmed entirely in England. The scenes in the woods were filmed at a public park called Black Park and Black Park Lake near the studios. If you get to know Hammer's films more you'll recognize the same damn paths and trees and lakeside in every movie filmed from more or less the same angles because they were the only places away from the roads facing in a direction where no cars would randomly pass by in the background.
shareThanks for that, I did not realise it was Black Park Lake, if you know any more filming locations which were in Hammer films please let me know
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Hammer films generally didn't have the budget to shoot anywhere outside of England. Thus, they tended to use the same outdoor scenes as much as possible.
shareBlack Park Lake is actually part of Pinewood Studios to the northeast. Look it up on Google Earth and you can see the lake and all the roads that many a carriage has raced down in so many of there movies. You can see the lake used in Brides of Dracula, Curse of the Werewolf, Dracula has Risen from the Grave and others. The fact that they had to use the same locations gives a common thread of familiarity in all there movies for me which I consider a positive. Each Hammer film makes me think of another Hammer film. I enjoy collecting and watching these classics over and over again. You can see Oakley Court also southwest, just southeast of Bray Studios. Brides of Dracula and others was filmed there.
shareJust looking at the film, it appears the castle is a matte painting in the background behind trees (probably shot in the studio).
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It was the same interior set seen in Dracula (1958).
shareNo, it wasn't.
shareYes it was!!!!
shareDracula's sets were built at Bray Studios. Hammer stopped working there before they made Dracula, Prince of Darkness. The sets of Prince of Darkness imitate the style and structure of those of the original Dracula but if you look closely, you will realize that they are, in fact, quite different.
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