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Silent Horror
see all genres ›Horror languished in the silent era until European filmmakers introduced Expressionistic imagery that suffused the screen with nightmare logic, casting a formative influence on the genre that lingers even today.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The most brilliant example of that dark and twisted film movement known as German expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI is a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Call of Cthulhu
THE CALL OF CTHULHU is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos." The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction and it moves from the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cat and the Canary
A decaying mansion and a stormy night are the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the fortune of Cyrus West can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor, unnerved by the news that...Start your free trial to watch
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson's DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver his first virtuoso performance on film. Blending historic charm with grim naturalism, this version of JEKYLL AND HYDE is one of the more faithful of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
James Cruze featured as Jekyll/Hyde in this second U.S. film version of the classic novel by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This famous tale, made even more sensational by Richard Mansfield's stage performance, was filmed in at least nine silent versions. Thanhouser's was the second U. S. film version, after...Start your free trial to watch
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to...Start your free trial to watch
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Explosion of a Motor Car
It has been claimed that early automobiles were not particularly safe. British director Cecil Hepworth takes such notions to the inevitable extreme. In this case, the explosion is only the beginning. Tragedy follows (with a dose of black humor). This particular version, oddly cropped to lop off to full...Start your free trial to watch
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Faust
Fresh from the triumphant releases of NOSFERATU and THE LAST LAUGH, F. W. Murnau was given carte blanche to direct this epic fable of the supernatural. Freed from the burden of plausibility by the story's fantastic premise, Murnau summoned forth a tempest of cinematic brimstone so that every scene ripples with reckless...Start your free trial to watch
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The Hands of Orlac
Reuniting the star and director of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE HANDS OF ORLAC is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental...Start your free trial to watch
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The Haunted Castle
THE HAUNTED CASTLE is a literal translation from the French title, LE CHATEAU HANTÉ. The fact that an 1896 Méliès film is also often known as THE HAUNTED CASTLE (though its French title, LE MANOIR DU DIABLE, could more properly be translated as THE DEVIL'S MANOR) has caused confusion to catalogers....Start your free trial to watch
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The Haunted Castle
I've yet to see anything to disprove the claims that this spooky affair is the first supernatural horror film of all time. Some also call it the first vampire film, most likely because of the presence of a large flying bat-creature early on. For Méliès devotees, it holds another more important position...Start your free trial to watch
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Kingdom of Shadows
Narrated by Academy Award® winner Rod Steiger (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), KINGDOM OF SHADOWS is a haunting, sometimes shocking documentary that explores the evolution of horror in world cinema with a danse macabre of religion, science, carnivals, sex, nightmares, monstrosity and death. More than fifty...Start your free trial to watch
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Nosferatu
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, NOSFERATU is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Red Spectre
This impressive trick film was made for Pathé by Segundo de Chomón and Ferdinand Zecca. Works dealing with the netherworld and the supernatural were much in vogue at the time. The color was hand-screened on to each print by Pathe's superb stencil process, introduced in 1904 and used throughout the silent film era. The...Start your free trial to watch
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A Terrible Night
Possibly the oldest extant Georges Méliès film concerning any kind of horror or fantasy element, this brief piece involves a stocking-capped slumberer troubled by a huge bed bug (not as huge as the David Cronenberg cockroach it vaguely resembles but big enough). The creature crawls over the man's sheets,...Start your free trial to watch
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Warning Shadows
German expressionist cinema was at its height in the 1920s, and few films embodied the movement as much as WARNING SHADOWS. Directed by Arthur Robison, this classic tale of psychological horror remains his best known work, celebrated for its outrageous visual style and notorious for its attempt to make a purely visual feature...Start your free trial to watch