The newspapers of the day reported that women fainted, children bawled and grown men stepped outside for fresh air after the famous unmasking scene. “Phantom,” which screens late Saturday night at the Fullerton Museum Center in honor of Halloween, became a legend almost immediately.
Rupert Julian followed with “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925), for many years considered the apex of film terror. Murnau’s expressionistic “Nosferatu” (1922) gave us an idea of what blood-sucking was all about. Robert Wiener created the first nightmarish psychodrama, “The Cabinet of Dr. The naturally alien quality of the silents-with their slightly off speed, pushy mood music, primitive lighting and exaggerated performances-always welcomed the grotesque.Ī few directors knew how to exploit the medium for eerie results. Horror was well-suited for the silent movie.
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