1) Nosferatu
2) Phantom of the Opera
3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('20)
4) Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5) The Lodger ('26)
I want to see Der Golem, The Phantom Carriage, and Faust ('26)
So what are your faves in this time period?
Pleasant Screams-Doc Noc
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Dr Nocturna |
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My Top 5
1) Nosferatu 2) Phantom of the Opera 3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('20) 4) Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 5) The Lodger ('26) I want to see Der Golem, The Phantom Carriage, and Faust ('26) So what are your faves in this time period? Pleasant Screams-Doc Noc |
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I haven't been able to see as many silent horror films as I'd like, but of the ones I have seen my favorites would be:
1) Nosferatu 2) Phantom of the Opera 3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4) Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 5) Hunchback of Notre Dame 6) The Golem 7) The Lost World Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
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Bela Karloff |
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1. Phantom of the Opera (Julian)
2. Faust (Murnau) 3. Nosferatu (Murnau) 4. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robertson) 5. The Unknown (Browning) |
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Laughing Gravy |
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Holy Moley, nobody's mentioned THE CAT AND THE CANARY? I like that film a lot, and Image has a special edition coming out in February.
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There aren't a lot of silent horror films that I really like. My favorites are probably Chaney films, but not PHANTOM or HUNCHBACK. I like WEST OF ZANZABAR and THE UNKNOWN a lot. There are great scenes in many silents like NOSFERATU, METROPOLIS (love the lab scene with the robot), SEFREID, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE and others, but I don't have to urge to sit and watch these movies like I do the films of the '30s and '40s.
Count Gamula
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borisandbelarule |
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I really do have a hard time sitting through the silents. Even Metropolis, which I have had for probably 15-20 years on tape, I haven't been able to get through in one sitting. The same goes for Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages. I wanted that one for years and years, and when I got it on eBay this past spring, I put it in once, fell asleep, and haven't put it back in since.
Like many here, I do enjoy the Chaney silents. But my truly favorite silent film is "The Bells," with Boris Karloff as the sideshow mesmerist. |
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GaryP11111 |
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The silent era genre films I enjoy the most are:
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA NOSFERATU DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (Barrymore) THE CAT AND THE CANARY THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN THE MONSTER THE UNKNOWN THE BAT THE LOST WORLD GARY L. PRANGE
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Chesterbelloc |
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My favorite silent horrors:
1)THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 2)FAUST 3)THE MAGICIAN 4)THE MAN WHO LAUGHS 5)NOSFERATU 6)THE MONSTER 7)DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE(John Barrymore) 9)THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI 10)THE LAST WARNING Larry Sutliff |
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GaryP11111 |
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Quote: THE GOLEM wears sunglasses? GARY L. PRANGE
"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectas nunc." |
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blackbiped |
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This board generates cutesy emoticons? Yuck! Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
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1. Faust
2. Nosferatu 3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4. Phantom of the Opera 5. Haxan Still have to see The Unknown, The Monster, and The Student of Prague. |
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Top 5 for me:
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS THE MONSTER PHANTOM OF THE OPERA THE UNKNOWN THE BAT |
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1. Nosferatu
2. Phantom Of The Opera 3. A Cottage On Dartmoor 4. Hunchback Of Notre Dame 5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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No doubt at all!!
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My "top ten" from bestest to, er, number tenth best....
The Passion of Joan of Arc [simply one of the greatest movies ever made--period] The Lost World [hey, I like dinosaurs and monkey men] The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Chaney is spectacular] Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [I love Barrymore's performance as Hyde] Woman in the Moon [guilty pleasure] Metropolis [for the 'look' and the sets, and the 'feel'] The Phantom of the Opera [Chaney as Erik: Iconic!!] The Penalty [Chaney!!!!!] The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [my favorite weird German expressionist film:nightmare vibe] Destiny [every top ten list needs a ten]
"We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it" -- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
"There ought to be a law against fat people owning little dickie-birds"-- Nigel Bruce (The Woman in Green)
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Nosferatu
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages The Phantom of the Opera Metropolis The Lost World The Unknown Faust Seven Footprints to Satan A Cottage on Dartmoor The Bat The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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My favorites in no particular order:
1)NOSFERATU(1922) 2)PHANTOM OF THE OPERA(1925) 3)CABINET OF DR.CALIGARI(1920) 4)THE GOLEM(1920) 5)THE MONSTER(1925) 6)THE LOST WORLD(1926) 7)THE MAN WHO LAUGHS(1928) 8)METROPOLIS(1927) 9)THE CAT & THE CANARY(1927) 10)HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME(1924) |
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NOSFERATU
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI THE CAT AND THE CANARY THE MONSTER WEST OF ZANZIBAR DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE THE MAN WHO LAUGHS METROPOLIS FAUST THE PENALTY THE LOST WORLD DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER SIEGFRIED
"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right in the nose, and I'm just the guy that can do it!"
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(going with a top 5 like the first post)
Cat and the Canary Haxan Fall of the House of Usher (french) Cabinet of Caligari Nosferatu |
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I don't know if its my favorite, but I really enjoy the 1910 version of Frankenstein, produced by Edison and directed by J. Searle Dawley. Though I am not
a fan of Edison himself, or the fact that he changed many key story elements so as not to offend the contemporary morals of the day, I still really enjoy it.
Even the plot changes were actually fairly amusing. Frankenstein is made out from a nice brothey soup instead of pieced together from corpses! I also really
like Ogle's costuming. Its only about 16 minutes long, and VERY early as far as horror goes, but whats not to love??
But really: Man Who Laughs The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Penalty Haxan (mainly for aesthetics) Really I adore West of Zanzibar and the Unknown, but I don't know if these qualify as horror? |
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Trilby, I enjoy the Edison FRANKENSTEIN both for its historical importance and for being a pre-iconic-Monster-look take on the story. I wouldn't have it
near my top five, however.
Really I adore West of Zanzibar and the Unknown, but I don't know if these qualify as horror?One man's opinion--both of these Chaneys are much closer to horror than is THE PENALTY (a great film, but no way horror.) |
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