Haxan (1922)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Haunted Spooks (1920)

A classic Harold Lloyd spoof from 1920, but with spooks!  This is considered to be the very first horror comedy even made (though I think that some of Méliés might actually qualify as earlier).  Still this is Harold Lloyd!!  Some even contend that not even Charlie Chaplin could touch his comedic genius.  Happy Halloween Eve!

A Theda Bara Tribute

I ran across this on the web and thought it would make a fitting Halloween post.  It is well done, and Bara has been a favorite of mine since childhood as well!

The Girl And His Trust (1912)

Doing a day of crime films over on my Scare Me site today for the Countdown, which is almost over (saaadd....), thought I'd post a crime melodrama from the king of melodrama himself:  D. W. Griffith.

The Student Of Prague (1913)

Regarded by many to be the very first full length horror film.  It is certainly one of the very earliest that has actually survived (for example, the original Der Golem, has not) 

Waxworks (1924)

Directed by Paul Leni, the other influential German Horror/Expressionist director.

Silly Symphonies; Egyptian Melodies (1931)

Disney animation from the early 30's directed by Wilfred Jackson, who is responsible for two segments of Fantasia (1949), one of which is my favorite, Night On Bald Mountain.

Wolf Blood (1925)

Spooks, Flip The Frog (1932)

Ub Iwerks cartoon from the early 30's after leaving Disney.  He was the original creator of the Skeleton Symphony for Disney, for which he got scant credit.  This is his personal furtherance of that project.  This is for my kid, who is having a whole day of Halloween stuff at his whim today....including going to see Frankenweenie in the theater!  So Happy Halloween to all the little ones out there, and happy animation!!

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

This is perhaps German director Paul Len's masterpiece!!