Germany’s Weimar Republic era roughly coincided with America’s Roaring Twenties period. Beginning shortly after the end of WWI, spanning the decade of the 1920’s, and extending into the early 1930’s ...

The classic 1920 German expressionist black and white horror film “The Golem” gets a new soundtrack by Hollywood composer Carvin Knowles in this original JewishJournal.com video In the 16th Century CE ...

Not quite 100 years ago, a rather strange "want" ad appeared in a German newspaper. Wanted: "30-50 living rats." The ad, which ran on July 31, 1921, was a casting call. The rats were needed for a film ...

Having said that, the 1920s saw the debut of horror villains like the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame on ...

Not quite 100 years ago, a rather strange "want" ad appeared in a German newspaper. Wanted: "30-50 living rats." The ad, which ran on July 31, 1921, was a casting call. The rats were needed for a film ...

This is the seventh in a series of articles on the recent Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale, held February 15-25, 2018. The first part was posted March 14, the second on March 16, the ...

"It isn't just the characters who have gone insane, but almost the environment itself." Can films from the early days of cinema still influence movies being made today? Of course they can! And they ...

This Halloween, a creepy silent film regarded as the forerunner of all horror movies is coming to haunt Southern New ...

s beams. When the Golem bares his teeth, he’s terrifying – though the 1920 German film’s cultural resonance is the eeriest thing about it. The digital restoration showcases beautifully the unsettling ...

Horror hounds have had plenty to chew on in 2024, with the best horror films of the year featuring everything from killer spiders to ballerina vampires. The year also saw films that paid homage to ...