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Review: Wolf Blood (1925)
Say "silent movies" to anyone under 30 and they are liable to respond "Boring!", but that is because they have never really seen one. Even worse, mention silent scary movies to anyone at all and they...
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Review: The Lost World (1925)
So you’ve seen Nosferatu, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Still bitten by the silent film bug? Well, if you’re looking for something a little lighter than the run-of-the-mill...
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Review: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
"You're standing in the wings, There you wait for the curtain to fall. Knowing the terror and holding You have on us all."Those are the lyrics from the heavy metal giant Iron Maiden's timeless classic...
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Review: The Cat and the Canary (1927)
The opening credits roll. The audience sees a man immersed in a fortress of oversized medicine bottles, presumably on the brink of madness. An image of a cat is superimposed to the right of the screen....
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Review: Häxan (1922)
Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages, Danish director Benjamin Christensen’s silent documentary on the history of witchcraft, is reputed as the strangest silent film ever made, if not the strangest of...
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Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Of the countless cinematic adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", the most effective to this day is Paramount's 1920 version starring "the Great...
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Review: Faust (1926)
Before Regan MacNeil, Damien Thorn, and Louis Cyphre, there was Mephisto, short for Mephistopheles, Satan’s most notorious alter ego. Satan and his sentinels have captivated creative souls’...
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Review: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Everything has to start somewhere. And, in Post-World War I Germany, a cinematic breakthrough was brewing: Carl Mayer, an Austrian scenarist and Hans Janowitz, a Czech poet, conceived the tale of a...
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Review: The Golem (1920)
Emanating from Jewish folklore, the legend of the “golem” has transfixed audiences for centuries. Although when used pejoratively the word “golem” describes a moronic person easily manipulated, the...
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Review: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Since its release in 1929, Un Chien Andalou has remained one the best and most famous examples of surrealist cinema. It does exactly what surrealist works are supposed to do: sequence random images...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Wolf Blood (1925)
Say "silent movies" to anyone under 30 and they are liable to respond "Boring!", but that is because they have never really seen one. Even worse, mention silent scary movies to anyone at all and they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Lost World (1925)
So you’ve seen Nosferatu, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Still bitten by the silent film bug? Well, if you’re looking for something a little lighter than the run-of-the-mill...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
"You're standing in the wings, There you wait for the curtain to fall. Knowing the terror and holding You have on us all."Those are the lyrics from the heavy metal giant Iron Maiden's timeless classic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Cat and the Canary (1927)
The opening credits roll. The audience sees a man immersed in a fortress of oversized medicine bottles, presumably on the brink of madness. An image of a cat is superimposed to the right of the screen....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Häxan (1922)
Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages, Danish director Benjamin Christensen’s silent documentary on the history of witchcraft, is reputed as the strangest silent film ever made, if not the strangest of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Of the countless cinematic adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", the most effective to this day is Paramount's 1920 version starring "the Great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Faust (1926)
Before Regan MacNeil, Damien Thorn, and Louis Cyphre, there was Mephisto, short for Mephistopheles, Satan’s most notorious alter ego. Satan and his sentinels have captivated creative souls’...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Everything has to start somewhere. And, in Post-World War I Germany, a cinematic breakthrough was brewing: Carl Mayer, an Austrian scenarist and Hans Janowitz, a Czech poet, conceived the tale of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Golem (1920)
Emanating from Jewish folklore, the legend of the “golem” has transfixed audiences for centuries. Although when used pejoratively the word “golem” describes a moronic person easily manipulated, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Since its release in 1929, Un Chien Andalou has remained one the best and most famous examples of surrealist cinema. It does exactly what surrealist works are supposed to do: sequence random images...
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