Category: Silent Age
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A Page of Madness (1926)
Written by Yasunari Kawabata & Teinosuke Kinugasa & Minoru Inuzuka & Banko Sawada Based on the short story by Yasunari Kawabata Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Starring Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa Released September 24, 1926 (Japan) RT 78 min. Home Video Flicker Alley (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) How Wikipedia can offer two complete…
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Written by Luis Bunuel, Jean Epstein Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe Directed by Jean Epstein Starring Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard Released October 5, 1928 (France) RT 63 min. Home Video Amazon Video (streaming), YouTube Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) This time I know what version of a silent film I…
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The Student of Prague (1913)
Written by Hanns Heinz Ewers Directed by Paul Wegener, Stellan Rye Starring Paul Wegener, Grete Berger, Lyda Salmonova, John Gottowt Released August 22, 1913 (Germany) RT 41 min. Home Video Alpha Home Entertainment (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) When watching silent movies, I don’t know that you can ever see one in an environment that…
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The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Written by Victor Sjostrom Directed by Victor Sjostrom Based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof Starring Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgstrom, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm Released January 1, 1921 (Sweden) RT 107 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection (DVD, Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 9 (out of 10) With its story within a story within a story, The Phantom Carriage…
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Haxan (1922)
Written by Benjamin Christensen Directed by Benjamin Christensen Starring Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt Released Nov. 7, 1922 (Denmark) RT 77 min. (1968 re-release) Home Video Criterion Collection (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) – 104 min., 9 (out of 10) – 77 min. Usually a stickler for watching movies as they were…
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The Penalty (1920)
Written by Gouverneur Morris, adapted from his famous novel Directed by Wallace Worsley Starring Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry, Kenneth Harlan, Claire Adams US Release Aug. 8, 1920 (Detroit) RT 90 min. Home Video Kino International Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) What turns a young man…
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The Cat & the Canary (1927)
Written by Alfred A. Cohn Directed by Paul Leni Starring Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall US Release Sept. 9, 1927 RT 80 min. Home Video Kino Lorber Films Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. Made near the end of the silent film area and…
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Written by Perley Poore Sheehan Directed by Wallace Worsley Starring Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry US Release Sept. 6, 1923 RT 117 min. Home Video Flicker Alley (or Amazon Prime) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. It’s more challenging for me to write about silent movies…
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Phantoms of the Opera: 1925 vs. 1943
The 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera is not really a remake of its 1925 silent version; instead, another version of the story by Gaston Leroux, like so many more that would come in later years. Nevertheless, since they both have legacies as Universal Monsters, it’s difficult not to compare them. Both are rewarding…
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