From the day that the supposedly ‘last’ surviving copy of the movie was destroyed in a fire in the 60s, movie fans remained deprived of one of the GREATEST gems the horror-mystery genre had ever produced – until it was wonderfully restored in 2002, with very cleverly arranged scene stills and a very atmospheric music score. Now, watching this masterpiece of film restoration, you’ve REALLY got the feeling that you’re actually watching the movie itself…<\/p>\n
And it shows clearly that this early example of the classic mystery movie was almost MORE than perfect in every way: the atmosphere of the old mansion (complete with vaults, cobwebs, ancestors’ portraits and bats hanging from the ceiling) would become kind of a basis for all the films of the genre – and was probably only equaled in Browning’s other unique masterpiece, the one and only “Dracula”…<\/p>\n
The narration technique (using flashbacks) was quite modern for the time, as well as the police methods depicted: even hypnotism was used to solve this ‘horror’ mystery – a feature which would also be ‘borrowed’ from many a movie of the genre’s Classic era in the 30s…<\/p>\n
And, of course, we can see the actors (even through the scene stills) at their VERY best – especially Lon Chaney, who is simply fabulous as the horrifying, devilishly grinning creature; with THIS make-up, he’d even have scared ‘Nosferatu’ Max Schreck himself! A really GREAT experience for every real fan of the genre, and a lesson for film specialists: it shows how even a ‘lost’ film can almost be ‘put together’ again with the help of scene stills – a really ADMIRABLE piece of work done by the experts from the USC and the AMPAS!<\/p>\n
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