Tom & Jerry cartoon, SWITCHIN’ KITTEN (1961).
Sculpture by Daniel Firman at The Palace of Fontainebleau, outside Paris.
Backgrounds from Scooby-Doo episode, “Hassle in the Castle” (1969).
PINK PLASMA (1975).
Where Disney villains reside…
The dragons at Caerphilly Castle, Wales: first there was one, then there were two, now there are four.
Animation backgrounds from 1977 Hungarian film, MATTIE THE GOOSE-BOY.
(Images from Living Lines Library.)
Villain lairs.
(Cruella de Vil’s Hell Hall. Skeletor’s Snake Mountain. Stromberg’s hideout, Atlantis. Syndrome’s Nomanisan Island. Maleficent’s castle. The Emperor’s throne room. Abandoned building in the industrial district on Coruscant, hideout of Darth Sidious. The Penguin’s underground pavilion below Arctic World. The cave where Gollum dwells, and Freddy Krueger’s boiler room.)
Haunted places from the SCOOBY-DOO series.
Behind the scenes of WILLOW (1988).
The mattes are by Chris Evans (who also did the art of images 3, 4, 5), Sean Joyce and Paul Swendsen. In the last photo—the filming of those gorgeous fairy shots—we see Denis Muren and George Lucas, among others.
(Most of these images come from here.)