The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (1914)

The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (1914)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 9, 2014Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
The first full length Edgar Allan Poe film from D.W. Griffith of The Birth of a Nation fame. Rather than Roger Corman's brooding Gothicism, Griffith waters Poe’s melancholia down to a banal Christian morality play

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 9, 2002Old Dark House Thriller
The film that defined the Old Dark House genre with spooky thrills as people are stalked around a big mansion. Expatriate German director Paul Leni brings an extraordinarily sophisticated arsenal of visual tricks to bear