This October, it’s back!!! That is, Silent-ology’s focus on all things spooky, creepy, gothic, and vampy. I frickin’ love Halloween–if you can’t tell–and this year I can hardly decide which scary film to cover first.

You wish.

My Halloween-inspired posts from previous years have included the films:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, of course;
The Phantom of the Opera, because it’s not Halloween without Lon Chaney;
From Morn to Midnight (Von morgens bis mitternachts), the most jawdropping German Expressionist oddity you’ve never heard of;
Frankenstein (1910), the world’s first version of Shelley’s tale;
Faust (1926), a film that constantly fills me with awe;
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)–one of my favorite films, period;
and Au Secours (1924), a bizarre collaboration between Abel Gance and Max Linder.

I also wrote articles on the following:

So What Exactly Was German Expressionism?,
Silent Boris and Silent Bela: The Early Careers of Two Horror Icons,
Why Tim Burton Should Thank Pola Negri…

…and who could forget,

5 Silent Films That Would’ve Terrified Me As a Child.

Make sure to check in throughout October for some doses of silent Hallowe’en. I’ve been looking forward to it!!

Like this…only not in a horrifying life-scarring way.

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