Cult Movie Reviews

The Magician is a 1926 horror melodrama based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel of the same name. It’s a movie that deserves to be better r...

Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage , made in 1921, is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Swedish silent cinema. Sjöström is s...

The 1926 German silent horror film The Student of Prague was a remake of the 1913 version. The basic story remains the same but cinema te...

The Student of Prague , made in Germany in 1913, may well have been the very first horror movie ever made. Even if it wasn’t the first it ...

Everyone knows about Harry Houdini the magician. The most famous escape artist in history, Houdini was a legend in his own lifetime and re...

Juve Against Fantômas ( Juve contre Fantômas ) is the second installment of Louis Feuillade's 1913 Fantômas serial, which had an immen...

Fritz Lang’s 1922 film Dr Mabuse the Gambler is in many ways the daddy of all movies in the gangster, crime and film noir genres. Interest...

Maurice Renard’s novel The Hands of Orlac has been filmed several times, with the best-known version being possibly the extremely good 1935...

The Danish film Häxan, made by Benjamin Christensen in 1922, is perhaps the first ever example of the mingling of fiction and documentary. ...

Paul Leni’s 1924 film Waxworks is one of the less known masterpieces of German Expressionist film. It’s not really a horror movie in a conv...