Category: Halloween silents
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It’s Halloween – Has Anyone Seen “The Bat”?
Every Halloween season, silent film accompanists and church organists find themselves on the bench supporting silent film’s usual suspects: Erik the Phantom, Quasimodo, Drs. Jekyll and Caligari, and Count Orlok. Most of these are more gothic or macabre than what one may consider bona fide “horror film”, with the exception of this year’s centenarian Nosferatu…
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A Classic Horror Film Without a Monster to Sell It
Rotating bookcases, a Creeping Hands, Disappearing Bodies, a Madman on the Loose, Suspicious Family Members After the Family Jewels — All in a Spooky Old Mansion There’s no iconic monster in the title of Paul Leni’s The Cat and the Canary (1927, Universal) or in the film itself. Maybe that’s why very few people show it…