Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922)

Rating: ★★★★
Mind-Controlling Criminal Mastermind

Dr Mabuse is one of the great villains of cinema. Fritz Lang was one of the greatest directors of the silent era and his first Mabuse film is extraordinary where Lang indulges in visual tricks that still look sensational today

Häxan (1922)

Haxan (1922) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Satanism and Witchcraft Documentary

A bizarre pseudo-documentary from the silent era that claims to recount a history of Satanism and witchcraft. Much of the film’s thesis is spurious but the results are facsinating

Nosferatu (1922)

Nosferatu (1922) poster
Rating: ★★★★★
Silent Dracula Adaptation

The first screen adaptation of Dracula and the most amazing of all vampire films, a German Expressionist fairytale that exists in haunted netherworld through which stalks the crepuscular figure of Max Schreck