Silent Wierdness

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...

From the very first filmed production of Frankenstein  dating from 1910, produced by the Edison Company and directed by J. Searle Dawley...

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 feat...

From Midnight Faces  (1926).  Set in my home state of Florida.

Early direction by D. W. Griffith, The Sealed Room  1909.  This is basically the only horror film that he made.

Lon Chaney Sr. in Tod Browning's The Unknown (1927)

Early Car Chase:   Les Vampires 1915-16.

Still from Melies 1903 film The Monster .

From Haxan  a Swedish "documentary" that dates from 1922, but was not released until 1929.

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.

This is absolutely confirmed to come from Melies La Manoir du Diable AKA House Of The Devil  AKA The Haunted Castle  dating from 1896....

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...

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...

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 ...

From The Cat And The Canary (1927).

This is not technically speaking a true horror movie in the since that people like Melies pioneered the genre in the 1890's, but i...

From the 1928 horror film The Fall Of The House Of Usher .  

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 Melies 1896 The Devil's Castle  AKA The House Of The Devil