Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum

The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum celebrates the history of horror in film. The museum is located in Bristol, Connecticut in a Swiss chalet style building, similar to what one might imagine a witch would live in. People have come from all over since the 1960's to visit the museum, especially as the Halloween season nears. The owner of the museum is Cortlandt Hull, a native of Bristol and fan of art and film. He was a sick child and spent a lot of time focused on cartooning. His love of horror goes back to his boyhood when he would stay up late to watch The Mummy on television. Hull was fascinated with special effects and make-up that was used in fantasy and horror films. He began collecting model kits, magazines, lobby cards and photos and enjoyed visiting wax museums. When the time came for Hull to open his museum, his father helped him construct the chalet and he began filling it with wax figures he created himself. Universal Studios caught wind of the museum and in 1997, Cortlandt constructed a wax figure of Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man that is featured at the Universal Studios entrance in Florda. Cortlandt's museum is open in October on the weekends and attracts people willing to wait three hours to tour the space. Characters in the museum include Frankenstein's Monster, The Mole People, The Phantom of the Opera, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Fly and Nosferatu.