The first film adaption of Edgar Alan Poe's novel.
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Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky.
During a wedding party, according to tradition, hide-and-seek is played in a local abandoned castle. The bride falls into a hidden corridor. As she enters a room, the door falls shut behind her. Inside, she finds a dead woman and a book that says she cannot get out of here. However, a cat taking her scarf outside is her salvation. The cat puts the searchers on the right track, and the groom finds his bride.
"What hast thou done? Listen, the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground." Two farmers love the same woman, who can choose only one of them. The rejected suitor takes revenge, and causes the fatal accident of his rival.
A Rajah dies saving a captain's wife when the plan to poison her husband goes wrong.
A distressed young woman, possibly on the run is surrounded by nothing but barren landscapes of forests and fields. As she progresses to an indiscernible denouement, the film contorts shape into a circular series of pulsating images that touches on the horror and the metaphysical.
A motorist is haunted by a wayfarer he has accidentally wronged.
A prophet who longed to look upon his deities. A daunting journey to a mountain peak. A confrontation with gods too powerful to name. This is the story that inspired Peter Rhodes, who worked as a filmmaker and artist during the 1920s. Few people know of his work, and it's only through luck and perseverance that we have been able to track down the elements for this "lost" film. Rhodes' films were created using silhouette animation, a technique perfectly suited to depict Lovecraft's mythic Dreamland stories. The filmmaker's involvement in New York City's occult and literary scenes provided him with a select audience for his work. Rhodes was especially influenced through his relationships with occultist Aleister Crowley and writer H.P. Lovecraft, but it was personal tragedy that moved him to produce "The Other Gods: A Tale of the Dream Cycle," his most powerful film.
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.
Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
A silent film following a man on the verge of the nervous breakdown as he is pursued by an ominous stalker.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.
