Woman in the Moon (1929)
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...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 11, 2022
- 2 min
West of Zanzibar (1928)
When she found out what I did to you... she hated me! Crane (Lionel Barrymore) Phroso (Lon Chaney) is paralyzed during a scuffle with...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jun 6, 2022
- 4 min
Nosferatu (1922)
There seem to be conflicting stories about how open F.W. Murnau was about his sexuality. During promotion for the 2000 film, Shadow of...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 29, 2021
- 3 min
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The 1924 silent classic, He Who Gets Slapped, did not air on TCM as part of its Lon Chaney marathon that I recorded on October 14, 2020....
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
The Blackbird (1926)
If you’ve ever wanted to see Lon Chaney, “the Man of a Thousand Faces,” transform into one of his misshapen characters, there are a...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 21, 2021
- 3 min
The Unknown (1927)
Today, as a special treat, I present an excerpt from a feature I wrote for the upcoming We Belong Dead publication, Mistresses of the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Unholy Three (1925)
Having been awed and amazed by previous Lon Chaney films that I’ve seen, I was a little disappointed in the one I’d heard most about: The...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 25, 2017
- 2 min
Review: A Page of Madness (1926)
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...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 16, 2017
- 3 min
Review: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
This time I know what version of a silent film I watched; however, I don’t believe it’s an “official” one. I found The Fall of the House...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 13, 2017
- 3 min
Review: The Student of Prague (1913)
When watching silent movies, I don't know that you can ever see one in an environment that replicates its original presentation. The...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 4, 2017
- 4 min
Review: The Phantom Carriage (1925)
With its story within a story within a story, The Phantom Carriage strikes me as being ambitious for a 1921 silent film. Not only that,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 2, 2017
- 3 min
Review: Haxan (1922)
Usually a stickler for watching movies as they were originally presented, I nevertheless enjoyed the 1968 re-release version of Haxan:...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Aug 3, 2017
- 3 min
Review: The Penalty (1920)
What turns a young man into a criminal? How about having both his legs amputated above the knee, then overhearing his doctors say they...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Sep 9, 2016
- 3 min
Universal Monsters: The Cat & the Canary (1927)
Made near the end of the silent film area and directed by German Expressionist Paul Leni (Waxworks), The Cat & the Canary employs some...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Sep 6, 2016
- 4 min
Universal Monsters: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
It’s more challenging for me to write about silent movies than talkies. I always have to explain what version I watched. For example,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jul 25, 2016
- 5 min
Universal Monsters: Phantoms of the Opera (1925 & 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...
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