Dangerous Squirrel 4: The Castle of Nightmare

Dangerous Squirrel 4: The Castle of Nightmare is the 1997 spoof (and fake) animated movie, which is 3rd sequel and the 4th installment of the "Dangerous Squirrel" movie series. The movie was produced by Cannon Films & Regency Enterprises, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Tom Ruegger and screenplay by Andrew Stanton & Tom Ruegger & Kathleen Helppie-Shipley.

Plot
Picking up where the previous film left off, Sophie, Corey and the squirrels, Oswald & Kata, decide to leave the Kinney village and move onward to follow the only path. All of a sudden, Sophie feels very tired, and is getting sleepy, so Corey decides to carry Sophie while walking with the squirrels. And then, they saw something. Corey woke Sophie up. They look at Thames Castle, guarded by a castle guardian named Keisha Coolidge. Keisha decides to be on guard standing by Thames Castle at all times. She wants any newcomers to identify themselves. The newcomers, especially are, Sophie, Corey, Oswald, Kata. Unfortunately, Sophie and her friends are very tired, and they need to find a place to sleep in. And Keisha agreed, though she informs them the West Wing is forbidden. Anyone decides to enter the west wing shall face the consequences. And they agreed, so Keisha says two magic sentences: "Open Sesame" (open door) and "Closed Sesame" (close door). She says "Open Sesame" to open the door, so she lets them in. After Sophie and her friends went inside of the castle, Keisha says "Closed Sesame" to close the door. And now, Sophie and her friends shall find any place (except the west wing) to sleep in.

Meanwhile, Sophie's stepmom, Dragongirl woke up from her consciousness. Though she uses a stick to help her walk better due to her previous accident. All of a sudden, a severe rainstorms have arrived. She walk back home to her own palace to get plenty of rest. A few hours later, Dragongirl woke up, but she's still upset. The reason why it's because she's been on a losing streak is because she failed against Oswald, her arch-nemesis. Finally, she's had enough. Her catchphrase, "Good Thunder Eagles", gives her an idea, so Dragongirl decides to build her fourth mechanical monster named Beagle. Dragongirl explained everything to Beagle about Sophie...and Dragongirl decides to ride on Beagle, who can fly, like most birds do. Now, back at Thames Castle, most of the bedroom are total mess, because most beds have bed bugs. And so the only bedroom they find is the West Wing. Oswald thinks the West Wing is a dangerous place, but Sophie never cares and is very tired. Now, Corey and Sophie decide to sleep on the bed without bedbugs... and Oswald and Kata shall sleep by the drawers. As they all fall asleep, Oswald has nightmares. I chose cinematic blur transition for dream effect sequence.

Anyway, Oswald's nightmare begins, Beagle is here, but Oswald and Kata have to defend themselves for Sophie and Corey, but they're no match for Beagle, so he grabs Oswald and Kata, and tosses them onto the river by the castle bridge. As for Keisha, she acts like nothings happened. Anyways, Beagle grabs Sophie and takes her back home to her stepmom's (Dragongirl) palace, while Sophie screams for help. And Oswald and Kata couldn't swim so they'll drown soon. But Oswald woke up from his nightmares... and so did Kata, Corey and Sophie. Oswald has another nightmares, but Sophie refused to believe Oswald, Kata and Corey, who listened to Oswald. Corey shall either sleep with Sophie in the bed or sleep at the hall with Oswald and Kata. Sophie doesn't listen to Corey and she kicks them out of the bedroom, as Corey, Oswald and Kata shall sent to the hallway for sleep. Sophie doesn't care about nightmares, but as she falls asleep, her own nightmares is next. Beagle is here, along with Dragongirl, so Beagle grabs Oswald and Kata, and tosses them onto the river by the castle bridge. And Oswald and Kata couldn't swim so they'll drown soon. Now, Beagle grabs Sophie and takes her back home to her stepmom's (Dragongirl) palace, while Sophie screams for help, but unfortunately, Beagle drops Sophie away, screaming.

And the loud thunder woke Sophie up, screaming, as Corey and the squirrels, Oswald and Kata, rushed to her. Sophie found out the hard way because of her nightmares... and Oswald's nightmares. Unfortunately, Sophie ends up crying. Sophie apologized to Corey, Oswald and Kata about the west wing, Oswald's nightmares, and didn't believe them. She believes them now... and decides to tell them about the nightmares. A short time later, as they finished telling the nightmarish story, they decide to quietly sneak upstairs all the way to the top, so Dragongirl and Beagle can't find them on the window of the west wing. Speaking of that, Dragongirl and Beagle have already arrive by the window of the west wing. At the Vitaphone Town Hall, Mayor Davis, Tristan and Deputy Tom decide to figure out who will be the new sheriff.

Back at Thames castle, Sophie, Corey, and the squirrels, Oswald and Kata, walk upstairs all the way to top, so they shall get rid of their nightmares for good. Dragongirl wants Beagle to check what's inside of the west wing, but nothing's there. And Dragongirl was shockingly surprised. Meanwhile, Sophie and her friends pushed the big castle block off the castle... and onto Beagle, causing himself and Dragongirl to descend faster all the way to the river. The sound effects are used, such as the bonk sound effect, Wilhelm screaming (Beagle sqwaks) and a lady screaming (Dragongirl screams). As the block goes down underwater, Beagle flies up quickly, but Dragongirl can't swim, so Beagle grabs her back onto the ground. Now Dragongirl's had enough, so she gets back on Dragongirl and decides to capture Sophie... and they did, but Corey quickly grabs Sophie, while Oswald and Kata got on Beagle... to scare him away. Not only that, Beagle has ill-gotten gain weights, so Dragongirl and Beagle quickly lands onto the ground, so Corey, Sophie, Oswald and Kata got off safely, and Dragongirl & beagle flies back up... and Dragongirl is very angry. Now, Sophie decides to run for her life... and Dragongirl and Beagle are chasing Sophie. There's dead end... on the cliff. With nowhere else to go, Sophie decides to hang on to a cliff, but she quickly discovered, it's a long way down.

While Sophie's still hanging onto a cliff, she ends up crying and screaming for help. Beagle is by the cliff and Dragongirl is trying to reach Sophie, but Corey uses a rope, so Sophie trusts Corey and grabs a rope, and Corey pulls Sophie back onto the ground for safety. And Dragongirl was so upset, she called Beagle names, much to his anger on Dragongirl. Now, Oswald and Kata quickly pushed the anvil off the cliff and onto Dragongirl and Beagle, causing to fall down all the way to the ground... and they crashed. Sophie owes Corey (for rescuing her) and the squirrels, Oswald & Kata, (for getting rid of Beagle for good). Now Keisha came to see Corey, Sophie, Oswald and Kata are A-OK. Keisha came clean to tell Sophie and her friends, that Keisha forgot about the bed bugs in other bedrooms and Keisha apologized about the west wing. She was told by Dragongirl several years ago. Also Keisha tells Sophie and her friends the bad news. Dragongirl's dead. At the Vitaphone graveyard, they put Dragongirl in the grave. Now, Sophie said her message about her Dragongirl's death. Then, they went back to Thames Castle. As a reward for getting rid of Dragongirl and Beagle, Keisha offers a free night to sleep in every bedroom, including the west wing. Oh, the bedbugs in every single room are all gone. And all rooms are cleaned. The reason? Sophie, Corey, Oswald & Kata got rid of Dragongirl and Beagle for good. Sophie is finally happy with Corey, Oswald and Kata, so they all can fall asleep in the bedroom... and dreamed, this time, in a good dream. Meanwhile, Dragongirl is still alive and decides to digs her way out of the grave with a rose on it.

Cast
Me (imitating so many voices as dubbed version for my unreleased homemade animated movies).
 * Tina Majorino as Sophie (Sophie McCole)
 * Haley Joel Osment as Corey (Corey Morrison)
 * Andy Serkis as Oswald (a squirrel faces dangerous perils based on his own nightmares)
 * Anna Chlumsky as Kata (Oswald's girlfriend)
 * Bernadette Peters as Princess Dragongirl (Dolores Drachma)
 * Richard Epcar as Tristan (Tristan Thomas)
 * Richard White as Deputy Tom (Zachary Tom)
 * Pam Grier as Keisha Coolidge (Thames Castle Guardian)
 * Maurice LaMarche as Mayor Davis (Edward Davis)
 * Barry Corbin as Beagle.
 * Kelsey Grammer as the Narrator

Production
I'm (JamesTherHAMPMaster) ready to tell you a story about the Dangerous Squirrel movie level 4, I made, which is called "Dangerous Squirrel 4: The Castle of Nightmare" (1997). I made an original movie on July 23, 2016. I use so many voices... just like the late, great man of a 1,000 voices named Mel Blanc (1908-1989). I drew and colorized some characters on sketch pads and cut out them with scissors to make characteristic paper figures on my room on July 12, 2016. Also I've drew some 4-way background sequences on sketch pads on July 13 - 17, 2016. I also made a book on May 6, 2010. Now, I use a DVD camcorder, with a tripod, to face my laptop. At the beginning of the movie, first of all, the 1948 Warner Bros. Pictures logo appeared with a byline "A TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" (1992-2001), also used for "Contact" (1997). Followed by the Cannon Films logo (1985). And the Regency Entertainment logo (1994). Alhough Cannon Films is owned and distributed by MGM and Regency Entertainment is owned and distributed by Fox, those Dangerous Squirrel movies are from Warner Bros. After three logos (Warner Bros., Cannon & Regency) have shown, there's the prologue from "Dangerous Squirrel 3: The Darkness Village" (1996), along with a picture of Natalie Gregory from "Alice in Wonderland" (1985)... and some parts of "Road Rage" musical theme from "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988).

You think "Dangerous Squirrel" means a squirrel is dangerous? Actually, a squirrel named Oswald is in grave danger. He has nightmares about mechanical monsters that soon turn out to be a reality. Also, the name of the title is a parody of Danger Dog, which cartoon created in the early 2000s. If you think the title "Dangerous Squirrel 4: The Castle of Nightmare" will be in UK, perhaps this title will be "Dragongirl 4" (1997; UK) and therefore "Dangerous Squirrel 4" will only be in USA. I made some of the fake movies, though. That Dangerous Squirrel Level 4 Book I made makes me following the paragraph as I snapshot the sequence.

I took a lot of photos of the drawings I made on a DVD camcorder with an SD card in my room. First of all, I use my DVD Camcorder to face those cut-out characters & objects and background drawings I made. Anyway, I insert the SD card to the laptop. I put these photos I took onto "Photo/Video Timeline" in Windows Live Movie Maker. Now I edited these photo clips and and added photos to it from each folder. Anyway, I recorded a lot of voices from the homemade book I made, removed it from narration timeline, and reimport it to the music timeline, trimmed off some mixed-up words and some goofs. I put some clips of musics onto "Music timeline". Now, I use Video Transitions and Video Effects onto some clips. It's a good thing I've got Windows 10 on my laptop, though I worked very hard to put good stuff on Windows Live Movie Maker. I saved some parts of the whole thing... until I finished. That's the hard part on July 19 - 22, 2016. I put my mini-DVD camcorder to face the laptop, plug up the audio/video wire from the mini-DVD camcorder to the DVD recorder. I put the TV set on mute so it doesn't have feedback screeches. I can only imitating sound effects... and not allowed to do some commentary talking. I saved the movie, and two special features into videos.

Anyway, I started recoring on DVD by July 23, 2016.

Soundtrack

 * "Halloween Theme" (1978) - John Carpenter (used for "Dangerous Squirrel" by Alexander Courage)
 * "Halloween 4" (1988; Downstairs Alone) - Alan Howarth
 * "Halloween 4" (1988; Child of Rage) - Alan Howarth
 * "Halloween 4" (1988; Return of the Shape) - Alan Howarth
 * "Listen to the Music" - Doobie Brothers

Opening Credits
WARNER BROS. Presents

In Association With: THE CANNON GROUP, INC. and REGENCY ENTERPRISES

A TOM RUEGGER Film

Dangerous Squirrel 4 The Castle of Nightmare

HALEY JOEL OSMENT

TINA MAJORINO

BERNADETTE PETERS

RICHARD WHITE MAURICE LaMARCHE

RICHARD EPCAR PAM GRIER ANNA CHLUMSKY

And: ANDY SERKIS as "Oswald"

Casting By: MIKE FENTON, CSA ALLISON COWITT, CSA SUSIE FIGGIS

Music By: DANNY ELFMAN

"DANGEROUS SQUIRREL" Theme By: ALEXANDER COURAGE

Associate Producer: ALYSSA MILANO

Costume Designer: MARLENE STEWART

Production Designer: MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON

Edited By: KERRY ANNE ODEM

Art Director: AMANDA RUBRIGHT

Director of Photography: DANIEL FIRESTONE

Executive Producers: ARNON MILCHAN and KATHLEEN HELPPIE-SHIPLEY

Based on Characters Created By: ROBERT WATTS and NICHOLAS MEYER

Story By: TOM RUEGGER and KATHLEEN HELPPIE-SHIPLEY

Screenplay By: ANDREW STANTON TOM RUEGGER and KATHLEEN HELPPIE-SHIPLEY

Produced by: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN and ANDREW STANTON

Directed By: TOM RUEGGER

Closing Credits
Dangerous Squirrel 4 The Castle of Nightmare

A NEW REGENCY Production

CAST

Sophie: TINA MAJORINO

Corey: HALEY JOEL OSMENT

Princess Dragongirl: BERNADETTE PETERS

Deputy Tom: RICHARD WHITE

Mayor Davis: MAURICE LaMARCHE

Tristan: RICHARD EPCAR

Castle Guardian: PAM GRIER

Kata: ANNA CHLUMSKY

Oswald: ANDY SERKIS

Beagle: BARRY CORBIN

Narrator: KELSEY GRAMMER

Production Managers: KATE BOUTILIER ERYK CASEMIRO

1st Assistant Director: MARK RISLEY

2nd Assistant Director: AMANDA RUBRIGHT

3rd Assistant Director: DANIELLE CONTE

Co-Producer: BRUCE CAMPBELL

Project Lead: SHIRAZ AKMAI

Lead Programmers: TIM DOYLE JASON HOERNER NEIL KA'APUNI DAN KOLLMORGER RYAN A. MAPES CHRISTOPHER MASTERTON

Artists: CHUCK CRIST ANDREW JONES RYAN POWELL LUIZ RAMIREZ ALEJANDRO ROURA LeROY STRAUSS

Animators: DEREK BONIKOWSKI DON HOGAN GENE KOHLER ELIZABETH PUGH DANNY RICHARDSON ELBEN SCHAFERS

Level Designer: GARY SPROUL

Operation Manager: COLIN WALTER

General Managers: LYLE HALL MARCEL SAMEK

Additional Designers: JUSTIN NORT RYAN KIRK JOHN WHITMORE KRIS JACKSON

Concept Artists: THOMAS SCHILLINGER DONALD YATOMI

Additional Artists: MORIBA DUNCAN ABDREW HOLDUN

Layouts: EDDY BENJAMIN DORRIS BERGSTROM ED CERULLO BOB CHIARITO LOU DELLAROSA

Backgrounds: EDWARD FAIGON HELEN KOMAR ALISSA MYERSON SONSA RUTA RICHARD WILLIAMS

Music Performed By: THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Music Editor: SHIRLEY WALKER

Orchestration: STEVE BARTEK

Technology Directors: SHIRAZ AKMAI CHRISTOPHER SANDERS

Testers: MARIA ANOMI SHIRLEY C. ALOVERA TYLER HOLMES

QA Technician: JASON ROBERTS

QA Database Administrator: MONICA VALLEJO

Script & Dialogue: DAN SLOTT

Voice-Over Recorded at: REPUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Voice-Over Director: GORDON HUNT

Clean-Up Animators: LIN LARSEN FRANCESCA FREEMAN

Final Checkers: LAURA CRAIG MAXINE MARKOTA

Titles and Optical: WARNER BROS. STUDIO FACILITIES

Special Thanks to: WARNER BROS. ANIMATION REPUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC. 21st CENTURY FILM CORPORATION

"LISTEN TO THE MUSIC" Performed By: THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Courtesy of: WARNER BROS. RECORDS

Memorable quotes from "CLAWS FOR ALARM" Courtesy of: WARNER BROS., INC.

Read the Book from GOLDEN BOOKS

Film on Locations in BURBANK, CA (USA) and LONDON, ENGLAND (UK)

Play the N64 game from WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Re-Recorded at TURNER STUDIOS

Soundtrack Album on Warner Bros./ Warner Sunset Records, Cassettes & CDs

Color By: WARNERCOLOR®

DOLBY In Selected Theatres

I.A.T.S.E.

MPAA No. 33182

AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION Animals are monitored and animated by American Humane Association. No animals were harmed in the making of this film.

This Motion Picture ©1997 Warner Bros. and Cannon/Monarchy International, N.V.

Story and Screenplay ©1997 Warner Bros. and Cannon/Monarchy International, N.V.

All Original Music Compositions ©1997 WB Music Corp.

All material is protected by copyright laws of the United States and all countries throughout the world. All Rights Reserved. Country of First Publication: United States of America. Warner Bros. and Cannon/Monarchy International, N.V. are the authors of this motion picture for purposes of copyright laws. Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution, or copying of this film or any part thereof (including soundtrack) is an infringement of the relevant copyright and will subject the infringer to severe civil and criminal penalties.

The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings and products are intended or should be inferred.

Dangerous Squirrel 4 The Castle of Nightmare A CANNON PRESENTATION

DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS

A TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY

Trivia

 * The name of the fictional city in Vermont, "Vitaphone" was named after the now defunct sound film system.
 * Princess Dragongirl made a costume and a mask that looks similar to Cruella De Ville (from 101 Dalmatians) and Harley Quinn (from Batman franchise)..
 * Tom Ruegger also directs Dangerous Squirrel 3 & 8 and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
 * Another new character, Keisha Coolidge (Thames Castle Guardian) has appeared.

Release
Dangerous Squirrel 4: The Castle of Nightmare has released in theaters in USA on June 6, 1997 by Warner Bros. Pictures.