Topic: silent horror films reccomendation
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Sun 11/15/15 04:29 AM
Hi everyone! I love horror movies and is currently hooked on silent horror films. I've watched the cabinet of dr. Caligari and Nosferatu. Can you reccomend some other good horror films like this?

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Sun 11/15/15 07:14 AM
Edited by Unknow on Sun 11/15/15 07:15 AM
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1920 full length version?
Phantom Of The Opera - Lon Chaney version
The Golem - 1920ish
Waxworks - 1920s...
London After Midnight


As an aside, if you like the atmosphere of the silent movie then I'd highly suggest watching "Carnival of Souls" from 1962. The music evokes a similar feeling. There is not a lot of dialogue and it is simply one of the scariest movies of its era. You can see the influence this movie had on Romero and Lynch.

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Mon 11/16/15 04:54 AM
Some of my favorites:

The Phantom Carriage (1921)
A Page Of Madness (1926)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
The Unknown (1927)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)

The Man Who Cheated Life aka The Student Of Prague (1926) - This is a remake of the 1913 film The Student Of Prague, yep, remakes have been around since the silent era.

The Cat And The Canary (1927)
The Hands Of Orlac (1924)
The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928)
The Lodger (1927) - Early Hitchcock
Warning Shadows (1923)


Not from the silent era, but two films that work like silent films:

Vampyr (1932) - Very little dialogue and its use of shadows is very reminiscent of silent horror films like Nosferatu.

Dementia (1955) Zero dialogue, and its atmosphere and imagery is very much like a silent film. Just make sure its the original 61 min cut of the film. If you hear a bad voice over, that's the bad version of the film.

And one film shot to look like a silent film from the 1920s: The Call Of Cthulhu (2005)