What, exactly, is the floorplan of the castle?
There isn’t one. While some scenes were shot on location at was is now the Oakley Court Hotel (see Section 3d for the address), much of the interior was a sound-stage reconstruction. The castle as it’s portrayed in the movie doesn’t exist, although Brian Thomson did create a scale layout drawing of the house. I ve read that the house is architecturally incorrect but it isn t, I calculated it all,” he said in a September 2001 interview with Crazed Imaginations. Apparently the dome and the elevator line up correctly (he showed the interviewer), but we weren’t there, so we can’t tell you how. You’ll also note that there are no doors into the lab. So how do the Transylvanians get there before Brad and Janet? Perhaps they all made a quick trip in the elevator, perhaps they all teleported up there, or perhaps they used Riff and Magenta’s secret entrance that was originally supposed to be there. This also was supposed to be how Dr. Scott entered the lab, but nobody noticed that they forgot to
