Silent Horror Movies - not seen
Some of these movies might not really fall into the horror category. And a number of them is probably lost.
I just want to have a list of silent feature-length horror movies I haven't seen (yet).
I just want to have a list of silent feature-length horror movies I haven't seen (yet).
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- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsMontagu LoveGerda HolmesEvelyn GreeleyA man discovers that he has two personalities--and one of them is a notorious strangler.Lost movie.
- DirectorRobert DinesenStarsCarlo WiethJohanne Fritz-PetersenHenry SeemannDr. Hatton and Dr. Felix, two young physicians, are working to produce a serum for the cure of cancer. Dr. Felix secretly envies Dr. Hatton's personality and social conquests, while the latter is jealous of the other's more advanced work. Hatton conceives a plan to divert his colleague's mind from his work by getting him interested in society and a charming orphan, Margaret. Lieutenant Vincent, Margaret's brother and guardian, is soon transferred to another city and Margaret is left alone with an old aunt. Dr. Hatton maneuvers so that Felix spends most of his time with Margaret, while he diligently applies himself to his work. Marguerite's infatuation for Felix results disastrously, and Dudley, Lieutenant's friend, goes to inform him of the improper relations between his sister and the physician. Vincent obtains leave of absence and sets out to defend his sister's honor. Meanwhile Margaret has written Felix about her condition, to which he replies with a check. This she indignantly returns to him. Upon his return Lieutenant Vincent challenges Dr. Felix to a duel, in which the former is fatally wounded. Felix is sent to prison for six months, and the night of his release Dr. Hatton, as Mephistopheles, takes him to a mask ball. In the midst of revelry Dr. Felix thinks how cruelly he has treated Margaret, and he goes to the hospital in search of her, where he learns that she and her child both have died. Overwhelmed by sorrow he returns to his rooms, where he reads of Dr. Hatton's discovery of the cancer cure. Too late he realizes that Dr. Hatton's duplicity has ruined his career. As life no longer appeals to him he takes poison and his dying eyes behold a vision of Mephistopheles with the face of Dr. Hatton, and seems to hear his mocking words: "I have superseded you. Your folly achieved my triumph."Found a copy of it. Seen halve of it.
- DirectorOtto RippertStarsErich BartelsTheodor BeckerKarl BernhardSuddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.Found a copy of it
- DirectorDel LordD.W. GriffithLois WeberStarsRosetta DuncanVivian DuncanGibson GowlandA broad, slapsticky farce using characters from "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It's not a satire on that venerable work, rather a "further adventures of" story, provided Eva didn't die after all. In this version, Legree manages to swindle the colonel and take control of his property-including Topsy-if a certain document isn't rescued in time. But Topsy does so and saves the day.Found a copy of it. It lasts almost 120 minutes.
This Duncan Sister's flick contains a much-commented-on haunted cemetery sequence, complete with spooky looking owls and zombie hands rising up from graves. - DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsErnest TorrenceRoland YoungDorothy SebastianWhen a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
- DirectorFrank PowellStarsTheda BaraEdward JoséMabel FrenyearA married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.Aka: The Vampire: A Fool There Was
prob not horror - DirectorJoe MayStarsMia MayBruno KastnerGeorg JohnHilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of an extremely gaunt and sepulchral Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.The imdb lists it with a runtime of 80 minutes. However so far I've only been able to locate copies running less than 40 minutes. Although a Russian site makes mention of a DVD release running just over 60 minutes... Maybe it's partially lost...
- DirectorRudolf MeinertStarsAlwin NeußFriedrich KühneHanni WeisseIn this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.It exists.. somewhere..
- DirectorFrancis FordJohn FordStarsFrancis FordMae GastonPeter GeraldAn Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his drinking problem.extant
- DirectorAlfred MachinHenry WulschlegerStarsRomuald JoubéGabriel de GravoneCinq-LéonSince a mysterious stranger and his servant settled in a manor near a Provençal village, a wave of crimes has beenfall the country and spread terror among the inhabitants.France (alternative title): L'homme noir
France (working title): Le cabinet de l'homme noir
USA (literal English title): The Manor House of Fear - DirectorJoseph W. SmileyStarsWilliam W. CohillPercy StandingGeorge De CarltonA young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results.A lost movie. The review by F. Gwymplaine MacIntyre is fake.
- DirectorEugen IllésJoseph KleinStarsSzokol AolesMax AuzingerJoseph KleinInsane doctor Ten Brinken, using the semen of a dead man, artificially inseminate a prostitute. The resultant child grows up to be a beautiful but evil woman who turns against the man who created her.This one apparently still exists. Not to be confused with Alraune (1919) (also 1918)
- DirectorWilly ZeynStarsEugen BurgFriedrich KühneHanni WeisseWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.Hound of the Baskervilles
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsDorothy DaltonHuntley GordonWalter D. NealandPriscilla Maine, a wealthy young woman, is plagued by visions of menacing people and strange adventures, which she confides to Dr. Philip Fosdick, a young physician. Later, while reading a newspaper account of a crime, Philip recognizes the people from Priscilla's dreams and investigates. He discovers that Priscilla has a twin sister named Nora O'Moore, who has just escaped from the clutches of gang leader Red Carnahan. The criminal stalks Nora and takes revenge by drowning her in a lake. Priscilla has a vision that draws her to the lake, where she finds Carnahan. The gang leader, terrified by Priscilla's resemblance to his victim, is driven by fear to drown himself. Priscilla faints and is nursed back to health by Philip. They then discover that Priscilla's father had married a gypsy who gave birth to twin daughters, then ran off with Nora while Priscilla remained with her father. With the mystery solved, Philip and Priscilla marry.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsCleo MadisonDick La RenoFrancis McDonaldFrivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive.
- DirectorCamillo De RisoStarsFrancesca BertiniAmleto NovelliUgo PipernoIn this adultery tale, a woman pretends to be a ghost so her loving husband, who thinks she died in a train accident when she ran away with a seducer, can forgive her.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsEdith RobertsLew CodyCharles K. GerrardBrewster, the bean king, has an option of renewal on a certain bean canning plant owned by Ellis. Ellis does not desire to renew and hires Wingate, a shyster lawyer, to help him. Brewster has to send Betty to renew the contract. Later he sends his lawyer to help her and Ellis' man persuades her that he is a plotter. There follows plot and counter-plot, but all-innocently Betty carries the day.not sure about the genre
- DirectorMarshall NeilanHenry Roberts SymondsStarsPat O'MalleyWesley BarryAgnes AyresAn intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the transplanted brain of a human.Lost film
A murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant is tracked by a jolly newspaper reporter. - DirectorJ. Parker Read Jr.StarsHenry HullDoris KenyonLouis WolheimHercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice Winthrop for a friend's father when they are shanghaied and taken aboard "The Finn's" ship, bound for the South Seas. "The Finn" is a brutal captain who reinforces his authority with a caged, ape-like monster. "The Thing" escapes during a storm, destroys the captain and crew, then turns on Alice and Nap. Fearing that their last moment has arrived, they declare their love for each other, and Nap suddenly develops a heroic impulse. He holds off the monster for a time, Alice and Nap swim for shore closely followed by "The Thing," and Nap finally drowns the beast with the aid of a large abalone.Supposed to be "lost" - although it has one user review...
An ape-like monster called The Thing enforces discipline on a ship until Hercules Napoleon Cameron (Henry Hull) stands up to the creature, which he throws from the deck into the sea where it is eaten by a giant abalone.The monster is kept in the shadows until the bizarre climax. - DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyMarceline DayHenry B. WalthallThe abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?Lost
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsConrad VeidtMagnus StifterMargarete SchlegelTwo opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus.Lost film
- DirectorPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenStarsPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenLyda SalmonovaLost film about an antiques dealer who finds a golem that has been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.Lost
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsJanet GaynorMary DuncanCharles MortonFour orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.Lost - and probably not horror.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsSascha GuraJohn GottowtPaul BiensfeldtWilton, a hunchback, who was always scorned and ridiculed by women, returns from Java a rich man after having discovered a diamond mine. He romances Gina, who is on the rebound from a broken affair, and showers her with expensive gifts. After Gina reconciles with her boyfriend, she continues to see Wilton because of what he gives her. After he discovers her perfidy, Wilton develops a poison and mixes it into her lipstick, which will kill any man who kisses her.Lost
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsFritz KortnerSadjah GezzaErnst HofmannA three-part historical film: the first episode takes place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel La Fin de Satan, and the third takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution.Lost