The Gorilla(1927)

The Other Gods: A Tale of the Dream Cycle(en)

A prophet who longed to look upon his deities. A daunting journey to a mountain peak. A confrontation with gods too powerful to name. This is the story that inspired Peter Rhodes, who worked as a filmmaker and artist during the 1920s. Few people know of his work, and it's only through luck and perseverance that we have been able to track down the elements for this "lost" film. Rhodes' films were created using silhouette animation, a technique perfectly suited to depict Lovecraft's mythic Dreamland stories. The filmmaker's involvement in New York City's occult and literary scenes provided him with a select audience for his work. Rhodes was especially influenced through his relationships with occultist Aleister Crowley and writer H.P. Lovecraft, but it was personal tragedy that moved him to produce "The Other Gods: A Tale of the Dream Cycle," his most powerful film.

Le courrier de Lyon(fr)

Directed by Albert Capellani.

Go and Get It(en)

Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.

The Mistletoe Bough(en)

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

Mercury(ta)

Five friends, all affected in some way by a mercury poisoning incident are partying when a freak accident put them on a collision course with an entity that is in no mood to forgive their misgivings.

Satan(it)

CU: Farewell(xx)

The protagonist recalls her past while her daughter is going to leave her forever. Years ago, the protagonist came from a province to a big city to get rid of poverty. Marriage to a gangster didn’t make her happy. She fell in love with her husband’s accomplice and soon got pregnant. Murder seems the only solution to the lovers…

The Epicure(en)

The Epicure depicts a person undertaking a highly unusual meal, for which the motives of doing so, are unknown

12.10(en)

Louis Fernando fails to sell a patent upon which he has spent the better part of his life and drowns himself. His orphaned child Marie is adopted by Lord Chatterton. Geoffrey Brooke, who is in the employ of Lord Chatterton, falls in love with Marie. Chatterton's general manager Arthur Newton also loves Marie and formulates a scheme whereby he hopes to win her and also acquire the Chatterton fortune. Chatterton becomes suspicious and by a ruse traps Newton and exposes his plot. Marie and Geoffrey are made happy in the end.

The Witches(xx)

The creatures are out for a feast.

Fantômas(fr)

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.

Human Wreckage(en)

An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.

The Fall of the House of Usher(en)

Curtis Harrington's student film based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story.

The Jest(en)

A fantastic British entry from the ‘Grand Guignol’ series. After his wife leaves him, an old man suffers for 40 years, longing for her to return, until one day his fellow lodgers decide to play a vicious prank… (chapter.org)

Cleopatra's Tomb(xx)

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

Nightmare Hospital(en)

A horror film about a pilot who is the sole survivor of the plane crash in the deep unknown. He must survive in an isolated building where something evil is waiting.

Films Confiscated from a French Brothel(en)

"Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" is a bare all Avant-garde Anthology homage to silent stag films.

The Basilisk(en)

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

The Wizard(en)

A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.

The Dark Mirror(en)

New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who undertakes to solve the mystery.