Classic Horrors Club

How Wikipedia can offer two complete paragraphs describing the plot for A Page of Madness (1926), I’ll never know. I don’t usually like to call attention to the fact that I’ll occasionally… Read more: A Page of Madness (1926)

The connective tissue among the three films on The Criterion Collection’s box set, Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers, is the director’s experience as a circus performer that he incorporated into a series of… Read more: The Mystic (1925)

October 6, 1921 There are at least a dozen films named, “Destiny,” over a third of them silent. Not that you’d have any trouble finding the “right” one, but just be sure… Read more: Destiny (1921)

Parts of Woman in the Moon are familiar; we’ve seen them in countless science-fiction movies over the years. However, because it was made in 1929, we can hardly accuse it of borrowing… Read more: Woman in the Moon (1929)

Phroso (Lon Chaney) is paralyzed during a scuffle with Crane (Lionel Barrymore,) the man with whom his wife, Anna (Jacqueline Gadsdon) is having an affair and leaving the country. A year later,… Read more: West of Zanzibar (1928)

There seem to be conflicting stories about how open F.W. Murnau was about his sexuality. During promotion for the 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire, Susan King wrote In the January 4,… Read more: Nosferatu (1922)