While cited less often than Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, From Beyond, or Dagon, Castle Freak is nonetheless essential viewing for the Lovecraftian student. Loosely based on the old boy's story The Outsider, it is a tale of secrecy, revenge, and suppressed rage. Fans of those other movies need know only two things: Jeffrey Combs plays the lead and Richard Band did the soundtrack.unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and detestable
