Seminal vampire film, the first to be based upon the Bram Stoker tale. An estate agent's clerk from Bremen embarks on a journey to Orlock's castle, where a client of his resides. On arrival, the full horror of the inhabitants confront him. Wonderful imagery and direction. Imitated but never equalled.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923 SILENT) (1923)
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Quasimodo (Lon Chaney) is the hideously distorted hunchback bell-ringer and servant of the cruel Jehan, brother of Dom Claude, the archdeacon of the famous Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame.
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)
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Lon Chaney takes the title role in this silent, black and white version of Gaston Leroux's classic tale. What starts as a seemingly plodding melodrama soon turns to grotesque Gothic horror, with Chaney making quite the most hideous phantom ever. Mary Philbin is equisite as Christine, the hapless heroine, who unwittingly drives the phantom into disastrous despair, while the gripping climax, accompanied by a crashing musical crescendo, is truly awesome.
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