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Het geheim van het slot arco (1915)

Het geheim van het slot arco poster
Original title
Het geheim van het slot Arco
Directed by
Jan van Dommelen, Maurits Binger
Genre
silent film
Country
Netherlands
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A headless ghost haunts a 16th century castle. In 1914, a man visits the castle to investigate the legend and discovers something odd under the floor.

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What happens

Het geheim van het slot Arco is a 1915 Dutch silent drama film horror directed by Maurits Binger and Jan van Dommelen. The English title is: The secret of castle Arco, the film consist of a Dutch cast while the production site was shot in Austria. The film is considered missing. The storyline is about a man without a head that haunts the castle Arco in the 16th century. A man in the present day (1914) goes to the castle to find out if the story is true after which he finds something strange beneath the old castle floor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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