Silent Horror Movies - not seen
Some of these movies might not really fall into the horror category. And a number of them is probably lost.
I just want to have a list of silent feature-length horror movies I haven't seen (yet).
I just want to have a list of silent feature-length horror movies I haven't seen (yet).
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- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsMontagu LoveGerda HolmesEvelyn GreeleyA man discovers that he has two personalities--and one of them is a notorious strangler.Lost movie.
- DirectorRobert DinesenStarsCarlo WiethJohanne Fritz-PetersenHenry SeemannDr. Hatton and Dr. Felix, two young physicians, are working to produce a serum for the cure of cancer. Dr. Felix secretly envies Dr. Hatton's personality and social conquests, while the latter is jealous of the other's more advanced work. Hatton conceives a plan to divert his colleague's mind from his work by getting him interested in society and a charming orphan, Margaret. Lieutenant Vincent, Margaret's brother and guardian, is soon transferred to another city and Margaret is left alone with an old aunt. Dr. Hatton maneuvers so that Felix spends most of his time with Margaret, while he diligently applies himself to his work. Marguerite's infatuation for Felix results disastrously, and Dudley, Lieutenant's friend, goes to inform him of the improper relations between his sister and the physician. Vincent obtains leave of absence and sets out to defend his sister's honor. Meanwhile Margaret has written Felix about her condition, to which he replies with a check. This she indignantly returns to him. Upon his return Lieutenant Vincent challenges Dr. Felix to a duel, in which the former is fatally wounded. Felix is sent to prison for six months, and the night of his release Dr. Hatton, as Mephistopheles, takes him to a mask ball. In the midst of revelry Dr. Felix thinks how cruelly he has treated Margaret, and he goes to the hospital in search of her, where he learns that she and her child both have died. Overwhelmed by sorrow he returns to his rooms, where he reads of Dr. Hatton's discovery of the cancer cure. Too late he realizes that Dr. Hatton's duplicity has ruined his career. As life no longer appeals to him he takes poison and his dying eyes behold a vision of Mephistopheles with the face of Dr. Hatton, and seems to hear his mocking words: "I have superseded you. Your folly achieved my triumph."Found a copy of it. Seen halve of it.
- DirectorOtto RippertStarsErich BartelsTheodor BeckerKarl BernhardSuddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.Found a copy of it
- DirectorDel LordD.W. GriffithLois WeberStarsRosetta DuncanVivian DuncanGibson GowlandA broad, slapsticky farce using characters from "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It's not a satire on that venerable work, rather a "further adventures of" story, provided Eva didn't die after all. In this version, Legree manages to swindle the colonel and take control of his property-including Topsy-if a certain document isn't rescued in time. But Topsy does so and saves the day.Found a copy of it. It lasts almost 120 minutes.
This Duncan Sister's flick contains a much-commented-on haunted cemetery sequence, complete with spooky looking owls and zombie hands rising up from graves. - DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsErnest TorrenceRoland YoungDorothy SebastianWhen a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
- DirectorFrank PowellStarsTheda BaraEdward JoséMabel FrenyearA married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.Aka: The Vampire: A Fool There Was
prob not horror - DirectorJoe MayStarsMia MayBruno KastnerGeorg JohnHilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of an extremely gaunt and sepulchral Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.The imdb lists it with a runtime of 80 minutes. However so far I've only been able to locate copies running less than 40 minutes. Although a Russian site makes mention of a DVD release running just over 60 minutes... Maybe it's partially lost...
- DirectorRudolf MeinertStarsAlwin NeußFriedrich KühneHanni WeisseIn this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.It exists.. somewhere..
- DirectorFrancis FordJohn FordStarsFrancis FordMae GastonPeter GeraldAn Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his drinking problem.extant
- DirectorAlfred MachinHenry WulschlegerStarsRomuald JoubéGabriel de GravoneCinq-LéonSince a mysterious stranger and his servant settled in a manor near a Provençal village, a wave of crimes has beenfall the country and spread terror among the inhabitants.France (alternative title): L'homme noir
France (working title): Le cabinet de l'homme noir
USA (literal English title): The Manor House of Fear - DirectorJoseph W. SmileyStarsWilliam W. CohillPercy StandingGeorge De CarltonA young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results.A lost movie. The review by F. Gwymplaine MacIntyre is fake.
- DirectorEugen IllésJoseph KleinStarsSzokol AolesMax AuzingerJoseph KleinInsane doctor Ten Brinken, using the semen of a dead man, artificially inseminate a prostitute. The resultant child grows up to be a beautiful but evil woman who turns against the man who created her.This one apparently still exists. Not to be confused with Alraune (1919) (also 1918)
- DirectorWilly ZeynStarsEugen BurgFriedrich KühneHanni WeisseWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.Hound of the Baskervilles
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsDorothy DaltonHuntley GordonWalter D. NealandPriscilla Maine, a wealthy young woman, is plagued by visions of menacing people and strange adventures, which she confides to Dr. Philip Fosdick, a young physician. Later, while reading a newspaper account of a crime, Philip recognizes the people from Priscilla's dreams and investigates. He discovers that Priscilla has a twin sister named Nora O'Moore, who has just escaped from the clutches of gang leader Red Carnahan. The criminal stalks Nora and takes revenge by drowning her in a lake. Priscilla has a vision that draws her to the lake, where she finds Carnahan. The gang leader, terrified by Priscilla's resemblance to his victim, is driven by fear to drown himself. Priscilla faints and is nursed back to health by Philip. They then discover that Priscilla's father had married a gypsy who gave birth to twin daughters, then ran off with Nora while Priscilla remained with her father. With the mystery solved, Philip and Priscilla marry.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsCleo MadisonDick La RenoFrancis McDonaldFrivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive.
- DirectorCamillo De RisoStarsFrancesca BertiniAmleto NovelliUgo PipernoIn this adultery tale, a woman pretends to be a ghost so her loving husband, who thinks she died in a train accident when she ran away with a seducer, can forgive her.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsEdith RobertsLew CodyCharles K. GerrardBrewster, the bean king, has an option of renewal on a certain bean canning plant owned by Ellis. Ellis does not desire to renew and hires Wingate, a shyster lawyer, to help him. Brewster has to send Betty to renew the contract. Later he sends his lawyer to help her and Ellis' man persuades her that he is a plotter. There follows plot and counter-plot, but all-innocently Betty carries the day.not sure about the genre
- DirectorMarshall NeilanHenry Roberts SymondsStarsPat O'MalleyWesley BarryAgnes AyresAn intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the transplanted brain of a human.Lost film
A murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant is tracked by a jolly newspaper reporter. - DirectorJ. Parker Read Jr.StarsHenry HullDoris KenyonLouis WolheimHercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice Winthrop for a friend's father when they are shanghaied and taken aboard "The Finn's" ship, bound for the South Seas. "The Finn" is a brutal captain who reinforces his authority with a caged, ape-like monster. "The Thing" escapes during a storm, destroys the captain and crew, then turns on Alice and Nap. Fearing that their last moment has arrived, they declare their love for each other, and Nap suddenly develops a heroic impulse. He holds off the monster for a time, Alice and Nap swim for shore closely followed by "The Thing," and Nap finally drowns the beast with the aid of a large abalone.Supposed to be "lost" - although it has one user review...
An ape-like monster called The Thing enforces discipline on a ship until Hercules Napoleon Cameron (Henry Hull) stands up to the creature, which he throws from the deck into the sea where it is eaten by a giant abalone.The monster is kept in the shadows until the bizarre climax. - DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyMarceline DayHenry B. WalthallThe abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?Lost
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsConrad VeidtMagnus StifterMargarete SchlegelTwo opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman.Dr.Warren and JanusLost film
- DirectorPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenStarsPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenLyda SalmonovaAn antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.Lost
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsJanet GaynorMary DuncanCharles MortonFour orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.Lost - and probably not horror.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsSascha GuraJohn GottowtPaul BiensfeldtWilton, a hunchback, who was always scorned and ridiculed by women, returns from Java a rich man after having discovered a diamond mine. He romances Gina, who is on the rebound from a broken affair, and showers her with expensive gifts. After Gina reconciles with her boyfriend, she continues to see Wilton because of what he gives her. After he discovers her perfidy, Wilton develops a poison and mixes it into her lipstick, which will kill any man who kisses her.Lost
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsFritz KortnerSadjah GezzaErnst HofmannA three-part historical film, with episode one taking place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel, and the third episode takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution.Lost
- DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsLouise FazendaChester ConklinJames FordAmerican comedy mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen.lost
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMay McAvoyLouise FazendaEdward Everett HortonGuests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'Not silent
Lost - DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsLon ChaneyMildred ManningJohn GilbertWhen a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his love rival with the help of the owner of a Horror Wax museum.lost
- DirectorMichael CurtizEdmund FritzStarsGyula GálRózsi SzöllösiKálmán KörmendyA mad scientist "creates" a beautiful but demonic woman, the result of a forced sexual union between a woman and a mandrake root, a plant said to have magical powers due to its uncanny resemblance to the human body.lost
- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsLon ChaneyRaymond McKeeVirginia True BoardmanIn return for money and medical aid for his invalid mother, struggling author Robert Sandell agrees to subject himself to experiments by Dr. Lamb, who claims he is trying to extend the human lifespan. Despite warnings from the doctor's wife and a hunchbacked assistant, Robert allows himself to be strapped to an operating table, whereupon he learns the true nature of the surgeon's experiments: To prove the theory of evolution by devolving his human subjects into an approximation of their simian ancestors. However, before Dr. Lamb can proceed, the hunchback un-cages another victim, an ape-man, who crushes Dr. Lamb to death.lost
- DirectorRichard RossonStarsEdmund LoweLeila HyamsGustav von SeyffertitzMad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body, Usual catastrophes ensue.lost
A revenge story involving an awesome-looking gorilla with a human head. It was billed as "the most fascinating mystery romance ever filmed".
The last known print of THE WIZARD is believed to have gone up in flames in the 1937 Little Ferry vault fire. - DirectorMax ReichmannStarsPaul WegenerMary JohnsonHugo DöblinA man lives alone in the wilderness for years, practically becoming an animal in his mind. When he comes across humans again, they believe him to be a yeti.About fifty minutes of the film is all that's left and can be found at the BFI. Their synopsis of the footage can be found here
While the footage is supposed to be some kind of cut down of the whole movie, it's very disjointed with none of the scenes being allowed to build at all. It does at least give you a good idea of Paul Wegener's performance.
Max Shreck has only a small part as a crewman and doesn't turn up playing different symbolic roles as written in the F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre's bogus review of the film. - DirectorJohannes GuterStarsXenia DesniNigel BarrieHanna RalphEva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...exists - mentioned on the what movie did you see last week thread on the horror board
- DirectorKarl GruneStarsAlbert SteinrückWilliam DieterleImre RádayA mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.exists - mentioned on the what movie did you see last week thread on the horror board
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineTom McNamaraStarsMary PickfordRoy StewartMary Louise MillerMolly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.Exists, though most likely not really horror (mentioned on the what movies did you see last week thread on the horror board)
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Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces them to work in his garden and treats them like slaves. They are watched over by the eldest, Molly. A gang in league with Mr. Grimes kidnaps Doris, the beautiful little daughter of a rich man, and hides her out on Grimes' farm, awaiting ransom. When the police close in, and Mr. Grimes threatens to throw Doris into the bottomless mire, Molly must lead her little flock out through the alligator-infested swamp. - DirectorUrban GadStarsFritz BeckmannHans BehrendtLoo BellA loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.[link]http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/60472/Island-of-the-Lost-1921-screening#.VgFg4UeQbao[/link]
ISLAND OF THE LOST, the 1921 silent German film (later remade as Universal's ISLAND OF LOST SOULS in 1932) is going to be screened at this year's Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, among other goodies such as MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM (1944). Sept. 17 to 19, www.MidAtlanticNostalgiaConvention.com - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsMilton SillsElliott DexterTheodore KosloffMichael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Mathilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.Seems to exist.
Not sure if it contains much horror. Primarily it appears to be a drama/romance, and perhaps comedy. - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsAgnes AyresMahlon HamiltonCharles RugglesMuriel Gray causes her father so much trouble that he takes out an insurance policy that will cover him for any damages she causes. The insurance company, irritated at Muriel's reckless driving habits, sends one of its agents to marry her, but she sets out to win a confirmed bachelor. The insurance agent is the best man at their wedding.The Agnes Ayres romantic comedy THE HEART RAIDER (1923) exists in the form of an overseas (Czech) release print at George Eastman House, and contains an outlandish nightmare sequence featuring masked wizards armed with a giant hypodermic needle, which was used widely in promoting the picture.