A scene from the 1926 film THE MAGICIAN starring Paul Wegener as "Oliver Haddo," an occult magician based on Aleister Crowley, seen below in black. Actress Alice Terry is here introduced by Haddo to Pan during a drug hallucination sequence.

W. Somerset Maugham wrote the novel The Magician (1908) upon which this film was based; it was loosely based on the life of Aleister Crowley. (Crowley later wrote a damning review of the book, accusing Maugham of plagiarism from other occult works). (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)
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#themagician #wsomersetmaugham #paulwegener #aliceterry #silenthorror #silentandprecodehorror

Fagin, Quasimodo, The Phantom of the Opera, Echo and the Old Lady in The Unholy Three (1925/30), Alonzo the Armless and Prof Burke / the vampire in London After Midnight (1927). The world revered him as The Man of a Thousand Faces, a.k.a. Lon Chaney.

#LonChaney #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #SilentEra #ClassicCinema #HorrorIcon #Icon #Iconic #HorrorMovies #SilentHorror

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RT @Nikolai_Fomich
If you love Nosferstu, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Phantom of the Opera, and other classic #blackandwhite #silenthorror films, check out this black & white, silent horror comic, The Butterfly House! Eerie and haunting, it’ll leave you thinking - and the art is a feast for the eyes! https://twitter.com/wearezoop/status/1615057382987513856

Stolen from a FB group: An image from the hallucinatory A PAGE OF MADNESS, a silent film from 1926, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in Japan. A Page of Madness (狂った一頁) was considered lost for 45 years until Kinugasa (re-)discovered it in a storehouse in 1971. (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)
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#teinisukekinugasa #apageofmadness #japanesehorror #Shinkankakuha #schoolofnewperceptions #silenthorror #silentandprecodehorror

"Here, it is cinema itself which is the phantom carriage, taking us on a journey that can divert, horrify and depress – but also enlighten and improve": Victor Sjöström’s silent horror THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (KÖRKARLEN, 1921) is a #PerinnealPicture
#SilentMovies #SilentHorror #SwedishHorror https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/25/the-phantom-carriage-korkarlen-1921/

Recommended viewing fodder for the forthcoming New Years Eve...

https://www.cinemacabre.co.uk/2021/09/thy-soul-shall-bear-witness-celebrating.html

#ThePhantomCarriage #SilentEra #SilentCinema #SilentHorror #Horror #HorrorMovies #VictorSjöström #SwedishCinema #Ghost #Ghosts #GhostStories #Folklore #Cinemastodon