Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum, Horror film museum in Plainville, Connecticut, United States.
The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum is a horror film museum in Plainville, Connecticut, displaying life-sized figures of classic movie monsters placed within recreated film sets. The figures are arranged across several rooms, each dressed with props and lighting designed to match the original productions.
The museum was founded in 1966 by Cortlandt Hull, a teenager with a passion for classic horror films, making it one of the oldest of its kind in the country. In 2014 it moved to a larger building in Plainville, where it still operates today.
The figures wear costumes closely based on those from films made between the 1930s and 1960s, giving visitors a direct sense of how these characters originally looked on screen. Frankenstein, Dracula, and others are arranged so that you stand face to face with them in recreated scenes.
The museum opens on weekend evenings only, so it helps to check the schedule before planning a visit. The rooms are not large, but taking time to look at each scene carefully makes the visit more rewarding.
Cortlandt Hull, the museum's founder, is the grandnephew of Henry Hull, the actor who played one of cinema's first werewolves in the 1930s. This family connection to film history was part of what sparked the whole project.
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