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Prime Video is ready with an entertainment-packed June this year. The upcoming month will see the much-anticipated streaming release of The Chosen: Last Supper, and also the release of Jensen Ackles‘s action thriller series Countdown. Just like every month, Prime Video is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the best 8 new movies and TV shows coming to Prime Video in June 2025.

The Accountant 2 (June 5) Credit – Amazon MGM Studios

The Accountant 2 is an action thriller film directed by Gavin O’Connor from a screenplay by Bill Dubuque. The 2025 sequel film follows Christian Wolff, aka The Accountant, as he gets embroiled in a sinister crime syndicate after Marybeth Medina asks for his help in solving Raymond King’s murder. Now, he must find a mysterious assassin and bring down...

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This June, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated conclusion of Squid Game and return of the beloved series The Bear on streaming, to the release of some of the most anticipated movies of this year, such as Brad Pitt‘s F1, and the much-awaited 28 Years Later. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

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Presence is a supernatural thriller drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by David Koepp. The 2024 film follows the Payne family as they move into a suburban home and discover that the house is haunted by a spirit. Presence stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday, West Mullholland, Julia Fox,...

Just as he has done with all his previous work, Robert Eggers has transcended the modern cinematic expectations with ‘Nosferatu’ (2024), a remake of the 1922 silent classic. With the ample support of the strongest possible cast of actors, impeccable cinematography, and a darkened, realistic vision, the film retells the original story of Dracula with the dark psychological passion that Eggers is becoming a mdoern master of. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal, by combining entertainment, education, and philanthropy. A chilling journey into Eggers' unnerving vampire vision Remakes are often given a negative reputation due to their...

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors was an unauthorized yet first adaptation of Bram Stoker 1897’s novel Dracula, the most influential literary source for the vampire legend. To evade copyright law, Nosferatu’s screenwriter Henrik Galeen changed the story from London to the fictional small-town of Wisborg, Germany, and also altered the characters’ names. But Bram Stoker’s estate filed suit, claiming the adaptation was an infringement. The German court ruling (in 1925) ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. As a result producer Albin Grau (also the film’s costume designer and art director) who produced only Nosferatu under his company banner, Prana Film was forced to declare bankruptcy. The orders were followed meticulously although one print, thankfully, found its way to the United States.

In his 1997 review of Nosferatu, film critic Roger Ebert (which he included in his ‘Great Films’ list) writes, “Ironically, in the...

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Robert Eggers has spent decades thinking about Nosferatu. In elementary school in New Hampshire, the filmmaker saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror and “lost my mind.” After he became obsessed with the film on VHS, a teenage Eggers directed a black-and-white stage version of Nosferatu, complete with actors painted in black and white. In 2016, after Eggers’ breakout film, The Witch, immediately made him a name to watch among cineastes, Eggers said he hoped to make Nosferatu his follow-up feature.

However, almost a decade passed before Eggers made Nosferatu. The wait has been worth it for the filmmaker and fans.

“The reaction has been pretty overwhelming. Even before the movie was released, it has just been a lot bigger than anything I’ve ever been involved with in terms of marketing,...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Nosferatu, Focus Features’ gothic horror from writer-director Robert Eggers. Set in 1830s Baltic Germany, Eggers reimagines the tale with Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, a fictional character who originally appeared in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror directed by F.W. Murnau.

Focus Features released the film on Christmas Day, since becoming Eggers’ highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office with $53 million and counting. It picked up five Critics Choice nominations among its recognition this season among critics groups.

In Eggers’ Nosferatu, estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Orlok, a vampiric prospective client. Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), Hutter’s new bride, is left under the care of their friends Friedrich and Anna Harding (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin) in his absence. Plagued by visions...

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2024 is nearly over, and while we have seen some brilliant horror films come out this year, I don’t think it has been such a great year for the genre. With most horror films flopping at the box office and the dreaded Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel coming out, it all felt wrong. But don’t worry because I have picked out the 18 best horror films that have come out this year. I haven’t ranked the films in the article and I will update the list as more films come out.

Nosferatu (In Theaters) Credit – Focus Features

Nosferatu is a gothic horror drama film written and directed by Robert Eggers. Based on the 1922 silent film of the same name by Henrik Galeen, the 2024 film is set in the 1830s, and it follows estate agent Thomas Hutter as...

A carriage approaches Orlok’s castle in director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2024 Focus Features LLC

Before Bela Lugosi created the image of an elegant Dracula in Todd Browning’s film Dracula, F.W. Murnau made the brilliant silent film Nosferatu, the first film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s eerie novel. Stoker’s estate refused to let the legendary German director use the book’s title but Murnau made the film anyway, renaming the vampire Count Orlok and re-setting the latter part of the story in Germany rather than England. Director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is an outstanding film that both honors and recreates Murnau’s great classic, while also adding a modern horror edge as well.

Fans of Murnau’s incredible silent horror film will delight in Eggers’ new Nosferatu, which faithfully recreates several of the striking scenes in the original. Nosferatu is visually astounding,...

While witches, lions, and hedgehogs fight over the holiday box office, one of fiction’s most legendary vampires, Count Orlok, lurks in the shadows, waiting to strike. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is in theaters now, but we have an alternate solution to satiating your desire for chilling cinema featuring a blood-thirsty phantom of the dead and dark. We’ve got a modernized version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, complete with HD quality, color, and a modern score!

This presentation is exclusive to JoBlo.com for a limited time. The retooled version of Murnau’s classic horror tells the terrifying story of Count Orlok, an ancient vampire seeking residence in an abandoned manor, waiting to rise from his coffin and terrorize the people surrounding his new home. Adapted by Henrik Galeen from Bran Stoker’s “Dracula,” Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror brings out the best of the silent film era with unforgettable characters,...

For many horror fans, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is the most anticipated movie of 2024, perhaps even of the decade so far. It has had a troubled history with many fits and starts along the way before finally reaching screens after nearly a decade in the making (Bloody Disgusting first reported on an Eggers helmed Nosferatu in July of 2015) this Christmas Day. There is much at stake and there are big shoes to fill for this movie but if the pre-release buzz is any indication, the film may well exceed its monumental expectations.

The history of Nosferatu reaches back over one hundred years and is one of the greatest and most consistent of all horror legacies. Ostensibly retellings of Dracula, the major Nosferatu films become something unique from the world’s most famous vampire with far more sinister underpinnings than the majority of “official” Dracula stories. Nosferatu in all its forms leans into the ideas of plague,...

In 2024, we have no need to try and make vampires happen. They have already happened for at least a century, and they're very much still happening: stories about vampires have saturated just about every medium there is. Weirdly, though, we may have to work a little harder to make the vampire happen again — as in the most legendary bloodsucker of all: Dracula.

In fairness, it may not be Dracula himself whose popularity is waning, but rather movies about him. Ever since his screen debut in the lost film "Dracula's Death" in 1921, barely a decade has gone by without some iteration of the Count turning up in cinemas, which is partially why the character has undergone so many various iterations. Like all fictional creations who've been built to last, Dracula endures by embracing change. Yet there can always been too much of a good thing; the last several films to prominently...

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Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" resurrects a 102-year-old vampire who first appeared in F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent black-and-white film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." /Film's own review of Nouveau-"Nosferatu" raves about it as a truly terrifying horror picture, as scary to modern audiences as Murnau's was a century prior.

It's incredible that cinema is now old enough that certain classic films have endured for a century or more. Heck, the 100th birthday of "The Wizard of Oz" is only 15 years away. However, "Nosferatu" is technically older than he appears — because the character is, in all but name, Count Dracula.

Now, the vampire himself is not named Dracula in Murnau's film but rather Count Orlok (played by Max Shreck). The story follows the major beats of Bram Stoker's novel, though, aside from moving the setting from England to Germany. Thomas Hutter...

With her latest big screen role, Lily-Rose Depp had the chance to flip the script on a classic film with a feminist skew.

At Thursday’s Los Angeles premiere of writer/director Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, the actress explained to Deadline what makes her character Ellen Hutter “so incredibly empowering” in the remake of the 1922 German vampire silent film, which was made by writer Henrik Galeen and director F.W. Murnau.

“Ellen’s perspective is one that we’ve never gotten to see in such a central way as this one, and Rob made the deliberate choice to make Ellen’s perspective the central one,” she said on the red carpet. “And we see the story really unfold through her eyes, which I think was such a beautiful thing, and was an honor for me to play.

“And it’s very exciting, because I think while, of course, this is a story we are familiar with,...

Count Orlok rises once more. Robert Eggers’ sinister retelling of Nosferatu made its Los Angeles debut, with Bill Skarsgård in the titular role.

Eggers and Skarsgård were joined by fellow stars of the film, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe and many more at the Tcl Chinese Theatre on Thursday, Dec. 12.

The story follows estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) as he travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), a vampiric prospective client. Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), Hutter’s new bride, is left under the care of their friends Friedrich and Anna Harding (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin) in his absence. Plagued by visions and an increasing sense of dread, Ellen encounters a force far beyond her control.

Written and directed by Eggers, Nosferatu is a remake of writer Henrik Galeen and director F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,...

Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter in ‘Nosferatu’ (Courtesy of Focus Features © 2024 Focus Features LLC)

There may not be a filmmaker working today who is more of a pure auteur than Robert Eggers. Known for his tedious methodology in moody period pieces like The VVitch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, he has quickly become one of the premier filmmakers in the horror world. And that makes him the perfect choice to direct a remake of another moody period piece from 1922, Nosferatu.

Nosferatu is about a young English real estate salesman named Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) who is summoned to Transylvania to seal the deal on a patch of land that happens to be right in his own neighborhood. On his way, he is warned against continuing on his journey, and when he arrives, he sees why – his reclusive host and client, Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), is a real creep. And...

There’s a moment early in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, when Lily-Rose Depp, last seen as the twisty pop star in The Idol, telegraphs to the audience: This will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

In Eggers’ reimagining of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German Expressionist horror fantasy Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Depp is magnetic vampire muse Ellen Hutter, paired with Nicholas Hoult as her husband Thomas. As we witness Ellen’s loneliness and desire being sated by a monster, followed by an opening monologue in which she confesses her fears to her husband, it’s clear that Eggers’ casting choice has paid off.

At audition, Depp performed that same monologue, and Eggers gave her the role that same day. “Myself, the casting director, and even the videographer were in tears, because it was so powerful,” Eggers says. “She was, as she is in the film, incredibly brave, and raw,...

“Come to me, hear my call,” murmurs Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) in Robert Eggers’ full-blown Gothic melodrama Nosferatu. She’s speaking not to her husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult), a young estate agent who’s journeying to the jagged, windswept Carpathians on business, but to his undead client Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), whose sulphurous powers have scrawled his signature upon her heart and soul as clearly as he scribbles his John Hancock on the property deeds for a new home in Wisborg, Northern Germany.

Come to me. Eggers is here obeying a similar call. Enraptured by F.W. Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror since eyeing it, aged nine, on VHS, he mounted a stage play in high school and has been yearning to fashion a big-screen version since 2015. It is, you might say, the film he was born to (re)make, for the talon-prints of Murnau’s spectral frightshow...

"Its sole impulse is to consume all life on Earth!" Watch out for Dracula! Universal Pictures UK has debuted their own second official trailer for Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu, the story of Dracula, arriving in theaters in December later this year. This is following up the second US trailer from a few weeks ago. A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Based on the original classic Nosferatu screenplay by Henrik Galeen and the Dracula book by Bram Stoker. Starring Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Willem Dafoe as Prof. Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. This is looking scary and dark and unsettling!

Actor Doug Jones shared his thoughts on the other upcoming Nosferatu remake coming this year while promoting his own version of the film. Jones is set to star as the titular Nosferatu in David Lee Fishers Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, premiering on AppleTV on Friday, October 18. However, Robert Eggers also has an upcoming Nosferatu film premiering in December. The films will be released within two months of each other.

In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Jones addressed the release timing. The actor called it "a confusing time" releasing the film just a couple of months before Eggers, but expressed excitement at seeing Eggers' film and is very enthusiastic about the dual release of the two Nosferatu movies, saying:

I'm a big fan of Robert Eggers, and I can't wait to see their movie as well, and I think Bill Skarsgrd is going to also kill it. But we...

With the property becoming the most popular it's been in over 20 years, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror's Doug Jones shares his thoughts on the close release between it and Robert Eggers' upcoming remake. Both movies serve as different interpretations of Henrik Galeen and F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film of the same name, itself an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Where Eggers' Nosferatu is a somewhat reimagined version of the original film in the filmmaker's unique style, A Symphony of Horror is a shot-for-shot remake utilizing practical sets and CGI to put Jones and the rest of his cast in the original film.

During an interview with Screen Rant to promote the October 18 release of his version, Jones shared his thoughts on Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror and Eggers' movie releasing within two months of each other. The star, who plays Count Orlok in the shot-for-shot remake and...

"Only you can redeem us!" "I'm ready..." Focus Features has launched the second official trailer for Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu, the story of Dracula, arriving in theaters in December later this year. It's even better than the first trailer! A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Based on the original Nosferatu screenplay by Henrik Galeen and Dracula book by Bram Stoker. Starring Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Willem Dafoe as Prof. Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. The cast is amazing! And all of the footage looks creepy and dark and compelling! They still won't reveal what the Count really looks like,...

Nicholas Hoult stars as Thomas Hutter in director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, a Focus Features release. Credit: Aidan Monaghan / © 2024 Focus Features LLC

Focus Features has released this first teaser for the highly anticipated Nosferatu.

Starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

The German silent horror film released in 1922 was notable for being the earliest surviving film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and for its technically novel and effective cinematography. Directed by German Expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen, Nosferatu is known for its haunting vampire imagery, made possible in part by the state-of-the-art film tricks of cinematographers Fritz Arno Wagner and Günther Krampf, and for an eerie performance...

"Who is coming to you, my child?" Focus Features has debuted the first official trailer for Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu, the Dracula story, after playing the trailer exclusively in theaters only this weekend (showing in front of The Bikeriders). This looks super creepy and stylish! A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Based on the original Nosferatu screenplay by Henrik Galeen and Dracula book by Bram Stoker. Starring Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Willem Dafoe as Prof. Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. This is more of a creepy teaser, as they don't fully reveal Dracula and his new look, but there...

Nosferatu, released in 1922, is a silent German Expressionist film that is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential horror movies in cinema history. Adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, the film was directed by F. W. Murnau and starred Max Schreck as the titular vampire, Count Orlok. Although the film faced legal disputes for copyright infringement, Nosferatu’s unique visual style and chilling atmosphere continue to inspire filmmakers and audiences alike.

Nosferatu The Origins of Nosferatu

When director F. W. Murnau set out to make a film adaptation of Dracula, he encountered a significant obstacle: the Stoker estate refused to grant him the rights to the story. Undeterred, Murnau and screenwriter Henrik Galeen decided to create their version of the tale, altering character names and details while retaining the overall plot. Thus, Count Dracula transformed into Count Orlok, and the story of Nosferatu was born.

The Plot...

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster director Thomas Hamilton on his upcoming series Horror Icons on interviewing Roger Corman: “He not only worked with Vincent Price, he worked with Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney.” Photo: Thomas Hamilton

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Conrad Veidt, Maria Ouspenskaya, George Zukor, Paul Wegener, Emil Jannings, Brigitte Helm, Gale Sondergaard, Gloria Holden, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Duane Jones, Max Schreck, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Lon Chaney Sr., Lon Chaney Jr, Fw Murnau’s Faust and Nosferatu, Arthur Lubin’s Phantom of the Opera, Rowland V. Lee’s Son of Frankenstein, George Waggner’s The Wolf Man, James Whale’s The Invisible Man, Lambert Hillyer’s Dracula’s Daughter, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen’s The Golem, Hanns Heinz Ewers and Stellan Rye’s The Student Of Prague, and George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead...

The oldest movie with a 100 Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes is an under-seen silent horror film, which is still considered a classic in its genre. Achieving a 100 score on Rotten Tomatoes isn’t easy, but it doesn’t always indicate the true widespread popularity, critical acclaim, or recognition of a film. For example, Citizen Kane (1941), which has often been called the greatest film of all time, holds a 99 Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas the emotional family-oriented Disney movie Old Yeller (1957) has a 100 score.

Nevertheless, it’s still a coveted achievement to reach 100 on Rotten Tomatoes, which very few films released before the 1950s have earned. Only 11 films from before the 1930s hold a Fresh 100 score from at least 20 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Part of the reason why many older films aren’t included in the 100 club is that it’s more difficult to find them on streaming services or archives,...

A top movie monster is back from filmic perdition, restored to his full might and power. Rabbi Lowe’s answer to the persecution of the ghetto is a mysterious unthinking automaton capable of terrible destruction. Paul Wegener’s indelible clay statue stands as a core myth in Jewish lore. But he’s still here, usually in allegories about mankind losing control of its own creations. With its imposing architecture and impressive special effects, this early expressionist masterpiece is one of the design highlights of silent cinema.

The Golem

Blu-ray

Kino Classics

1920 / B&w with tints / 1:33 silent ap. / 76 min. / Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam / Street Date April 14, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Lothar Müthel, Fritz Feld.

Cinematography: Karl Freund, Guido Seeber

Art Direction and design: Hans Poelzig, Kurt Richter, Edgar G. Ulmer

New Music scores: Stephen Horne, Admir Shkurtai,...

[This Halloween season, we're paying tribute to classic horror cinema by celebrating films released before 1970! Check back on Daily Dead this month for more retrospectives on classic horror films, and visit our online hub to catch up on all of our Halloween 2019 special features!]

It comes down to the shadows; always has and always will. Horror hides from us in the unknown and unkempt, the terrifying and tantalizing, locked behind an impenetrable darkness that holds our deepest fears and regrets. But sometimes that darkness is released upon a world that just isn’t ready for what lies within. Such is the case with F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), the silent classic that begat vampires upon the public in ways still felt today. Nearly 100 years has not quieted its brooding charms and ethereal dread.

It is a film that was almost lost forever; Bram Stoker (author of Dracula)’s widow got very litigious and all prints were thought to be destroyed. However, some did manage to make it out of Germany, and this foreboding art drifted across the world, landing in the Us some seven years later, safe from persecution.

What persecution, you ask? Well, Murnau...

Special Mention: The Most Dangerous Game

Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack

Written by James Creelman

USA, 1932

Genre: Survival Horror

The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell’s short story of the same name, The Most Dangerous Game was made in 1932, in the era known as “Pre-Code Hollywood,” a time when filmmakers were able to get away with sexual innuendo, illegal drug use, adultery, abortion, intense violence, homosexuality, and much more. It was during this time that a film like The Most Dangerous Game was allowed to be made and shown to the general public without fear of censorship. The film was put together by producer Willis O’Brien while in pre-production on King Kong, and features several of the same cast and crew members, as well as props and sets from Kong. Despite these obvious cost-cutting measures, Dangerous Game never feels like a second-rate production,...

There's one ironclad rule for mad scientist movies:  if you show a monstrous caged ape-creature in the first act, that ape-creature must absolutely break loose and wreak havoc before the end of Act III.  Just ask George Zucco or John Carradine, they'll tell you. It makes no difference if the film is being made on Gower Gulch, or at Germany's prestigious UfA Studios. Alraune Region 2 Pal (Germany) DVD Arthaus 1952 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 87 min. / Unnatural, Mandragore, Vengeance / Street Date July 6, 2007 / Available at Amazon.de / Eur 16,90 Starring Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Karlheinz Böhm, Harry Meyen, Rolf Henniger, Harry Halm, Hans Cossy, Gardy Brombacher, Trude Hesterberg, Julia Koschka, Denise Vernac. Cinematography Friedl Behn-Grund Film Editor Doris Zeitman Costume Designer Herbert Pioberger Original Music Werner R. Heymann Written by Kurt Heuser from the novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers Produced by Günther Stapenhorst Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenault

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...

Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of his favorite Horror films of all time. The list will be posted in six parts. Click here to see every entry.

As with all lists, this is personal and nobody will agree with every choice – and if you do, that would be incredibly disturbing. It was almost impossible for me to rank them in order, but I tried and eventually gave up.

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Special Mention: Gremlins

Directed by Joe Dante

Written by Chris Columbus

1984, USA

Gremlins gets a special mention because I’ve always considered it more of a comedy and a wholesome Christmas flick than an actual horror film. This tribute the 1950s matinee genre stands the test of time from a time when parents would take their children to family films that pushed the boundaries of the MPAA. Joe Dante is...

The problem with writing daily updates for a film festival such as Il Cinema Ritrovato is that you never find time to do it! The screenings start from 9 in the morning and continue ceaselessly till the evening, and then you can go for the outdoor projection which starts at 10 pm, and if it is something like the restored version of Roman Polanski's Tess, then the end of screening would be on the following day.

To begin, let’s start with a cinephile, rather than the films: Olaf Möller is a hard-to-miss cinephile who dresses in black (but his beard distinguished him from Johnny Cash), and when he talks about Mosfilm director, Ivan Pyr’ev whose retrospective Möller curated, it looks as if he discovered Solomon's mines. Olaf’s aim is to go beyond the officially acknowledged names in the Soviet Union cinema. In the technical mastery of Pyr’ev,...

In the 1920s those seeds planted the decade before took hold, and there are notable examples of early horror on both sides of the Atlantic. The most significant of these, and perhaps the most famous, is F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. It is the first of countless adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though famously made without the permission of the Bram Stoker estate. Although included amongst the Expressionist movement, what’s startling today is the movie’s lyrical use of natural light and exterior shots (of running water, animals etc.); visually it is in stark contrast to Caligari’s jagged mindscapes. They both create otherworldliness in different ways, one by giving us distorted images we can relate to, and the other by alienating us with carefully employed images of nature.

The best vampire movies from this to Let the Right One In (2008) take the myth seriously,...

For many fans, independent horror filmmaking seems like a relatively new concept. So you may be surprised to find out the maverick spirit that fuels our beloved genre has been burning for almost 100 years now, since the 1912 version of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde was produced by the independently-run production house Thanhouser Company.

Since then, we’ve enjoyed countless films that bucked the studio system tradition and gave us bold, refreshing explorations of some of our greatest fears and introduced us to some pioneers in the entertainment industry. In honor of these achievements, we here at Dread Central are taking the entire month of March to celebrate all things indie horror.

To kick things off, over the next five days we’d like to take you on a historical journey through the last 100 years of indie horror by taking a look at 25 milestones that helped define the horror genre and, in many cases,...

Topol, 74, a Best Actor nominee for Norman Jewison’s 1971 blockbuster Fiddler on the Roof (above), is attached to star in a Yiddish-language version of The Golem, Screen Daily reports. The $5 million British/Czech/German co-production will be produced by Stuart Urban, who also penned the screenplay. Filming is scheduled to take place in Prague next year. In The Golem, Topol (born in Tel Aviv in 1935) will play a 16th-century Prague rabbi named Maharal, who brings to life a clay statue to protect the local ghetto from anti-semitic pogroms. Paul Wegener co-directed (with Carl Boese), co-wrote (with Henrik Galeen), and starred as the giant, Frankenstein-like Golem in a 1920 German version. Albert Steinrück played the rabbi in that film. Photo: United [...]...