Silent Wierdness

  Le Petit Chaperon Rouge  (or Little Red Riding Hood ) was an experimental  take on the Red Riding Hood story directed by Alberto Cavalcant...

  Lobby card for the 1923 film Puritan Passions , set in Salem, Massachusetts.  The film, based on a popular play, was about the witchcraft ...

  Those Who Dare  was a sea-voyage drama that featured supernatural practices (and capitalized on  superstitions  about non-Christian religi...

  There are a few images from silent films that always show up on various social media platforms around Halloween. One of the most famous is...

  La folie du Docteur Tube (or The Madness of Doctor Tube ) is an experimental film from early French film artist Abel Gance made and releas...

  A Sherlock that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found compelling! (well that is the modern tagline I would put on the film anyway). Doyle saw the f...

  His Brother's Keeper was principally a crime film with strong horror elements from 1921. It is yet another lost film with enough extan...

  One Glorious Day  is a lost Paramount production directed by James Cruze starring Will Rogers and released in early 1922.  Judging from th...

  Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel (or The Mysterious Mirror/Mystic Mirror ) was a 1928 German silent fantasy set in a Bavarian schloss (castle). ...

  Go And Get It is a relatively unknown feature length horror spoof from 1920. It's plot, like so many involving science fiction plots i...

  A flier poster for the 1911 Selig release An Evil Power from Moving Picture World.  It's plot revolves around a fake spiritualist/ hyp...

  Lotta Coin's Gold (alternatively Lotta Coin's Ghost) was a short supernatural spoof released 1915 from Kalem.  This was one of the...

  Director Tod Browning remade his London After Midnight  (1927) as The Mark of the Vampire  in 1935. His original intent was to have Lon Ch...

  The film is a an old dark house spoof staring Thelma Todd and Chester Conklin. The plot carries the (even by this time) well worn story of...