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Anyone here into silent films? Recently I've become obsessed with silent film. I find the whole period of all art during the silent film era hugely fascinating. I think the emotion, story and detail conveyed in silent film just really resonates with me, and to watch any good silent film is to watch absolute mastery of film making - anything by Murnau or Lang especially.

I've watched these recently, and would definitely put them on a best horror films of all time list:

Nosferatu - I saw a restored version as it was intended to be viewed, highly reccomend to track it down if you've only ever seen the non-tinted version with the wrong character names.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - This movie blows my mind. I love, love LOVE how everything looks in this movie.

The Hands of Orlac - (Orlac's Hande) This is the most expressive movie I may have ever seen. It is a little slow paced - but I think that's due to our modern short attention spans than anything else. This movie is moving and beautiful to me, I've played piano since I've been a little kid so that's part of the reason too.

The Golem - the scene where the rabbi does the ritual is accurate - that is actually from real grimoires and cermonial magic, really cool! Great, great storytelling, history and special effects.

The Cat and the Canary - I maybe wouldn't consider this film on a best horror movie of all time list, but it is a quintessential horror film and has obviously influenced just about every/any "haunted house" horror film as well as any horror movie with an ensemble cast. This movie creates many, many horror movie tropes. This movie could easily be remade today with no changes except setting it in the present year (Of course it would suck because today's actors would make it suck crap balls).

Metropolis - Not a horror film, but I watched the most recent restoration and wow - go watch it now if you can. Just last year they found 25 mins of lost footage, it looks amazing. Beautiful, stunning, moving film. Just thinking about how this was made back then blows my mind. Even without the sets, the camera work was groundbreaking.

Next up on my docket to watch:

Faust
The Phantom of the Opera
Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
Hunchback of Notre Dame

Any that I'm missing that I should see?

If anyone has any ideas on how to further my obsession with this era let me know...time travel anyone?