Monday, October 8, 2018

Top 28 Silent Horror Films: Part 3



Part two of the top 28 silent horror films will cover numbers 16 through 11. 
#16:The Monster: 

The Monster is a 1925 horror film directed by Roland West and starring Lon Chaney and Johnny Arthur.

The movie follows a general store clerk and aspiring detective who investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty asylum.
#15: The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 American horror film directed by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film stars Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, and Creighton Hale. 

The plot revolves around the a death of Cyrus West, who is the uncle of the film's characters, and the reading of his will 20 years later. One of the characters, Annabelle, inherits her uncle's fortune, but when she and her family spend the night in his haunted mansion they are stalked by a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, a lunatic known as the Cat escapes from an asylum and hides in the mansion.

#14: Metropolis 

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang. It starred Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Brigitte Helm. Filming took place over 17 months between 1925 and 1926.

Metropolis is  a futuristic city divided in two social classes. The workers are one class and they live underground below the machines. The dominant class lives in the surface. The workers are controlled by their leader Maria, who wants to find a mediator between the dominant and the workers. Maria meets Freder Fredersen, the son of the Lord of Metropolis Johhan Fredersen. They end up falling in love with each other. Meanwhile, Johhan decides that the workers are no longer necessary for Metropolis and uses a robot that emulates Maria to promote a revolution of the working class in hopes of destroying them.

#13: The Golem

The Golem: How He Came into the World is a 1920 horror film co-directed by and starring Paul Wegener as the golem. The film was the third of three films that Wegener made featuring the golem, the other two being The Golem (1915) and the short comedy The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917). The Golem: How He Came into the World is a prequel to The Golem from 1915 and is the best known of the series, due to it being the only one of the three films that has not been lost.

#12: The Unholy Three

The Unholy Three is a 1925 American film involving a crime spree. It is directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. The supporting cast features Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen and Harry Earles.

Three sideshow performers leave the business to become "The Unholy Three." Echo the ventriloquist assumes the role of a kindly old grandmother who runs a bird shop. Tweedledee, the "twenty inch man," becomes her grandbaby, and Hercules is their assistant. Soon an incredible crime wave is launched from their little store.
#11: West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar is a 1928 American film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. The supporting cast includes Mary Nolan and Warner Baxter. The picture is based on a 1926 Broadway play called Kongo starring Walter Huston.

When magician Phroso's beloved wife, Anna, leaves him for ivory merchant Crane, the two men fight and Phroso is left paralyzed from the waist down. After Anna's sudden death, Phroso takes revenge on Crane by spiriting Anna's baby away to Africa.

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