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Hush hush | silent horror films

user_profile:user_profile.profile_pictureby Farnaz Hashemnia
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Many early chosen films have only some elements of horror and can’t quite call horror films but since this list is trying to provide a genealogy of the early and formative elements of the horror genre in the silent era, I’ve included them as well. Metropolis, Aelita, Homunculus, and The Man Who Laughs are not included. The first three are rather dystopian and the last is a melodrama. Vampyr is not fully silent but it has so many elements of the silent era within itself so I’ve put it on my list.
Note that some of these films are lost films.

Missing from Mubi:
The Devil’s Laboratory – 1897


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