Parts of Woman in the Moon are familiar; we’ve seen them in countless science-fiction movies over the years. However, because it was made...

When she found out what I did to you... she hated me! Crane (Lionel Barrymore) Phroso (Lon Chaney) is paralyzed during a scuffle with...

There seem to be conflicting stories about how open F.W. Murnau was about his sexuality. During promotion for the 2000 film, Shadow of...

The 1924 silent classic, He Who Gets Slapped, did not air on TCM as part of its Lon Chaney marathon that I recorded on October 14, 2020....

If you’ve ever wanted to see Lon Chaney, “the Man of a Thousand Faces,” transform into one of his misshapen characters, there are a...

Today, as a special treat, I present an excerpt from a feature I wrote for the upcoming We Belong Dead publication, Mistresses of the...

Having been awed and amazed by previous Lon Chaney films that I’ve seen, I was a little disappointed in the one I’d heard most about: The...

How Wikipedia can offer two complete paragraphs describing the plot for A Page of Madness (1926), I’ll never know. I don’t usually like...

This time I know what version of a silent film I watched; however, I don’t believe it’s an “official” one. I found The Fall of the House...

When watching silent movies, I don't know that you can ever see one in an environment that replicates its original presentation.  The...

With its story within a story within a story, The Phantom Carriage strikes me as being ambitious for a 1921 silent film. Not only that,...

Usually a stickler for watching movies as they were originally presented, I nevertheless enjoyed the 1968 re-release version of Haxan:...

What turns a young man into a criminal?  How about having both his legs amputated above the knee, then overhearing his doctors say they...

Made near the end of the silent film area and directed by German Expressionist Paul Leni (Waxworks), The Cat & the Canary employs some...

It’s more challenging for me to write about silent movies than talkies.  I always have to explain what version I watched.  For example,...

The 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera is not really a remake of its 1925 silent version; instead, another version of the story by...