Warning Shadows (1923)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #22 🔥 100th Anniversary

This 100-year-old horror movie was... slow... and tame, to say the least, lol.
It's a silent film and there are NO title cards (on purpose), so there was a lot of clumsy inferring, and definitely some confusion about the nature of relationships within the story.
However, still at least somewhat interesting as a piece of history: with the German expressionism and all the shadows; the "magician"(witch?) and the madness and the murder, then the big reveal which was actually pretty cool.

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Nosferatu (1922)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #30 🔥 100th Anniversary

Wanted to watch this 100-year-old film for the anniversary this year, but I had to be very careful... because every other time I've tried to watch it... I'vefallenasleep.😅 Almost happened again this time, but I ultimately made it through!

The restoration version I watched was very well done. Here's all the info about the restoration process posted at the beginning of the film:

NOSFERATU was restored by Luciano Berriatúa on behalf of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Weisbaden in 2005/06. A tinted nitrate print with French intertitles from 1922 from the Cinémathèque Française, Paris, was used as a basis for the restoration.

Missing shots were completed by a safety print from 1939 from Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin/Koblenz, drawn from a Czech export print from the 1920s. Other shots were taken from a nitrate print of the 1930 version, distributed under the title DIE ZWÖLFTE STUNDE [THE TWELFTH HOUR], preserved at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris.

Most of the original intertitles and inserts are preserved in a safety print from 1962 from Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin/Koblenz, originating from a print from 1922.

Missing intertitles and inserts were redesigned on the basis of the original typography by trickWilk, Berlin. They are marked with F.W.M.S.

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