I just revisited this gorgeous twilight tale of old and it keeps surprising me. Great performances and even greater editing.

I consider this more than just a classic horror film, for me this is living proof than fear is indeed one of our most primal instincts, so much so that we call for it the very moment any new art form is born.

I still don’t know what impresses me more about this film, the fact that at moments it can still give you the chills after almost a hundred years after it’s creation or the way it manages to express it’s atmosphere, think about this: Due to technical limitations it was almost impossible to film night scenes outdoors, so no matter it is day or night you always see that yellowish tone. Night and day are the same for the viewer. There’s no escape, and the sense of drear grows and grows by the minute.

A tour de force for anyone even barely interested in horror movies and a mandatory lesson in atmosphere creation that is more alive than ever before.