During preparation for Harbor High's annual winter dance, Ryan plans to asks Lindsey, but she declines. Seth tries asking Alex, but she does not do school events since she dropped out of her own. So, Ryan and Seth end up asking out Marissa and Summer for old times sake. Meanwhile, Julie finally finds out about Marissa's fling with D.J., and Sandy investigates Caleb's secret by questioning Renee Wheeler about her past history.
The castle used in the film is an actual Italian castle owned by the president of Full Moon Pictures, the distribution company.
John Reilly:
[Breaking open the crypt to reveal an empty coffin] Giorgio D'Orsino he was never burried. She kept him alive! He's here somewhere in this castle?
Rebecca Reilly:
There's somebody else here there's somebody in the castle!
John Reilly:
I didn't kill her, I fucked her, Okay?
Continuity: When the Duchess is taking bread and dried sausage to The Freak in the opening sequence the sliced bread has a gaping hole in it in the kitchen but is whole by the time it makes it to the dungeon.
Continuity: After the family gets to the castle, the castle freak rips off his left thumb to escape the handcuffs. In the end where he is kissing the daughter, he clearly has two thumbs.
Featured in
"Svengoolie: Castle Freak" (2003)
- This film is featured in this episode.