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![]() The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
![]() Frankenstein
1931
![]() Dracula
1931
![]() Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
![]() Battleship Potemkin
1925
![]() Metropolis
1927
![]() Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
![]() The Phantom of the Opera
1925
![]() A Trip to the Moon
1902
![]() Freaks
1932
![]() Nosferatu
![]() Faust
1926
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(Movie), Frankenstein(Movie), Dracula(Movie), Nosferatu the Vampyre(Movie), Battleship Potemkin(Movie), Metropolis(Movie), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(Movie), The Phantom of the Opera(Movie), A Trip to the Moon(Movie), Freaks(Movie), Nosferatu(Movie), Faust(Movie)
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for a silent film this film isn't silent in the fucking slightest. my biggest issue with the movie is the constant, never-ending, repetitive music that's played throughout the movie. now i haven't watched many silent films at all, so i have no clue if that is just something that is in all of them. max schreck was great in the titular role of nosferatu, but that's about as far as the positives go. i greatly respect this film for what it achieved back in 1922, but i can't really say i liked it all that much. read
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film #17 of hoop-tober 2.0 is nosferatu a terrifying horror film anymore? not for most, of course. the 1922 horror classic is simply too dated and tame to really put true fear into most people with even a passing familiarity with horror films. but it still is a great horror film, and its creepiness is without question. f.w. murnau's tale of count dracu -- err, sorry, count orlock -- is a film for the ages, with provocative imagery and visual metaphors that resonate nearly a century after the film's release. so much of this film is written into film iconography that it seems almost difficult... read
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