From Kurutta ippeji, a Japanese horror film dating from the year 1926. Happy Halloween.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Silent Horror Still Post Of Day
From Kurutta ippeji, a Japanese horror film dating from the year 1926. Happy Halloween.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Horror Still Of The Day
From the 1926 horror/mystery The Bat, which was later remade in the in 1950's (as a talking picture, of course) with Mr. Vincent Price. Full film below.
Saturday, October 25, 2014
One Of My Favorite Horror Stills!
From the very first filmed production of Frankenstein dating from 1910, produced by the Edison Company and directed by J. Searle Dawley ans starring Charles Ogle as the above pictured Monster.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Another Horror Still With Music
A very creepy image from the 1911 film L'Inferno or Dante's Inferno, the clip below is the first very part of the film featuring music that the group Tangerine Dream later composed for the film.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Silent Horror Image Of The Day
Early direction by D. W. Griffith, The Sealed Room 1909. This is basically the only horror film that he made.
Friday, October 17, 2014
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Silent Horror Image Of The Day
From Haxan a Swedish "documentary" that dates from 1922, but was not released until 1929.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Native Stills From Mexico
Posting a couple of Aztec images from Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico (1932) in protest of Dia de la Raza (or Day Of The Races) being "celebrated" today in Mexico....don't let the name fool you, it's really just Mexican Columbus Day!
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Another Horror Still
From the 1928 short The Fall Of The House Of Usher, not to be confused with the feature length film of the same name and year.
Horror Movies Still Of The Day
This is absolutely confirmed to come from Melies La Manoir du Diable AKA House Of The Devil AKA The Haunted Castle dating from 1896.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Horror Movie Still Of The Day
Over at the Scare Me On Friday blog we are devoting one of the Countdown days to a Jewish/Hebraic theme. Judaism is filled with it's own set of unique monsters and spirits, one of which is the Golem. The above image comes from Der Golem, the 1925 remake of the film that still survives in good condition. The original, much shorter film, from 1915 is famously lost.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Horror Still Of The Day
Over at the Scare Me blog we are celebrating this 8th day of the Countdown To Halloween by passing the time with films from one of my all time favorite directors: Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock actually started in the motion picture business in his native Britain in the early 1920's and completed several silent films, of which the most famous--and most menacing--it The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog, loosely based the Jack The Ripper killings. Which is where this still comes from.
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| Hitchcock on the set of The Lodger |
Horror Still Of The Day
A still of Lon Chaney from Tod Brownings famously lost film London After Midnight (1927). This is one of two still for today; since I had serious internet troubles yesterday, I didn't have a chance to post then.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Modern Silent Film: Psych
Here is a short modern silent horror film by Erica Elizabeth Ravenwood. I just love this sort of stuff!
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Horror Image Of The Day
This is not technically speaking a true horror movie in the since that people like Melies pioneered the genre in the 1890's, but it is certainly one of the very first "freak films" and served as some of the inspiration for Tod Browning's 1932 ground breaking and infamous film Freaks. The man is Nikolai Kobelkoff who billed himself as "The Human Torso" in circus side-shows in France. The film is formally listed as dating from 1900.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
A Halloween You Tube Mystery
There is some controversy over whether tinted film above is actually British film maker George Albert Smith's 1897 remake of the 1896 black and white Melies film below or not. The main confusion seems to come in with the title card on the above remastered film showing Melies film studio stamp, but this could be have been added later by some mistake or other. They don't look the same to me! Either way they represent two of the very earliest horror films every made. Happy Spooks!!
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| Melies |
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Friday, October 3, 2014
Silent Horror Image Of The Day
There is some controversy over where this tinted print comes from. It is either a tinted Melies which was released in 1896, or it is from one of the very first British film "directors" George Albert Smith's The Haunted Castle, which dates from 1897. If it is the later, I guess that makes this one of the first, if not the very first, remakes in film history.
Countdown To Halloween Movie Celebration
I know I posted this last year, but I'm such a Melies fan, I figured, what the hell....re-post! This represented one of the earliest horror movies. Happy Early Halloween
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| The man himself. |
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Scare Me On Fridays: Personal Photo Of The Day: The Kid Donates To The...
Scare Me On Fridays: Personal Photo Of The Day: The Kid Donates To The...: Scooby Doo headphones for screening movie clips. Wado Peanut!
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
New World Food: Countdown To Halloween: Personal Photo Of The Day...
New World Food: Countdown To Halloween: Personal Photo Of The Day...: This is the beginnings of a momoztli (ofrenda in Espanol, altar in English) for my Tahtli (Father). Not the best quality in the world, ...
