BEST OF EARLY HORROR (1896-1929)

Time to glance back to the beginning.. The primordial ooze of genre films from which all great modern horror cinema derives. These are the gems that made a lasting imprint on my young imagination growing up.

Click the following links to see past Horror posts at the Wandering Image: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

#21-19 = great

#18-10 = top shelf liquor

#9-1 = God tier

the countdown:

       THE HAUNTED CASTLE

21.[THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL]

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THE MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN

20.     THE SKELETON DANCE

19.    DANTE'S INFERNO (1911)

18.      FRANKENSTEIN (1910)

                 DR. JEKYLL 

17.      AND MR. HYDE (1920)

 

16.           THE GOLEM

[THE MONSTER OF FATE 1915]

              THE PHANTOM 

15.OF THE OPERA (1925)

          THE HUNCHBACK OF 

14.NOTRE DAME (1923)

13.          LES VAMPIRES

12.          THE UNKNOWN

11.  THE HANDS OF ORLAC (1924)

10.THE CAT & THE CANARY (1927)

         THE GOLEM: HOW HE 

9. CAME INTO THE WORLD (1920)

8.                 DESTINY

          A PAGE OF MADNESS

7.                狂った一頁

                 THE FALL OF

       THE HOUSE OF USHER 

6.           [1928 U.S. short]

5.   THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

4.                  HÄXAN

3. 

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

2.         NOSFERATU (1922)

1.              FAUST (1926)

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