The interior of the Monument (which you can visit) also provides the entrance hall in which newbie John Myers ( Rupert Evans) arrives, and was later used on-screen as the site of the ‘Miami Bodyworlds’ exhibition in 2006 Bond reboot, Casino Royale. The frontage is much more grandiose, boasting a huge equestrian statue. The Memorial contains the Ceremonial Hall, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Klement Gottwald Mausoleum (though the one-time President is no longer on show) and exhibition halls. It was acquired by the National Museum in 2000 and, after restoration, was opened to the public in 2009. The massive building, built in the late Twenties and early Thirties in honour of Czechoslovak legionaries, became the burial place for Communist dignitaries in the Fifties. The forbidding ‘Squeaky Clean Waste Management Plant’ in ‘Newark, New Jersey’, which houses the HQ of the ‘Bureau For Paranormal Research And Defense’, is the rear of the National Monument, U Památníku 1900, atop Vitkov Hill, northeast of Staré Mesto ( Old Town). Set in the USA and Russia, the film was made entirely in the Czech Republic, mainly around Prague. Guillermo del Toro’s film of Mike Mignola’s comic book is clearly a labour of love, and del Toro regular Ron Perlman was born to play the otherworldly red curmudgeon.

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