20 Lost Horror Movies
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Oopsy at the end I meant Lon Chaney Not Jr. 😂 must've overseen that one
I actually fill sad about these lost films its just... people work so hard to make a film that ends up being lost
@@superfelipestudios8104 fingers crossed that some of these projects won't be lost indefinitely
@@ScribblestoScreen fingers crossed
@@superfelipestudios8104 yeah same with the Batgirl movie now too
@@ScribblestoScreen ur so good you are doing great keep up the great work i love your videos
a lost silent film directed by F.W. Murnau, best known as the guy who directed the classic silent film Nosferatu, he directed another film called Der Januskopf, it was an unauthorized adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it came out in 1920, and it featured Bela Lugosi in an early film role, he played the Butler of Conrad Veidt's character in the movie, Veidt was the lead role in the movie. That looks like it would have been an awesome film to see
This man certainly has a theme don't he?
One movie you didn't mention and I was surprised is the 1933 King Kong Spider Pit Scene. There were some pics/stills in some books and magazines even Peter Jackson tried to hunt it down for a time. He went so far as to use his people to film what the scene would have been like using the original script. You should do a documnetary on that. :)
I found out about the missing spider pit scene from @BigJackFilms
Those scenes along with the "Dinosaur Stampede " were shown at the Britush Film Institute in the late 70s. I was there, so they were lost after that.
@@FireMoon42 It's sad that these were lost and we will never see them. It would have been amazing to have seen these remastered and restored. Hopefully one day they will turn up. 🤞
I think the spider pit scene was used in the 50s film "The Black Scorpion", way down in that fantastic huge cave scene.
I've been reading about the missing spider pit scene for a goodly number of years now. At present its existence is still speculative.
London after midnight -NOT LON CHANEY JR, as you say, but Lon Chaney!
London After Midnight could absolutely be found, the American Sherlock Holmes (1916) starring William Gillette was found and extensively restored in 2014, a new score was written and everything. It was found in the Cinematheque Francais, so you never know
I agree. Look up Mitchell & Kenyon. Photographers who also went around randomly exposing nitrate film around 1900. When their business folded all their nitrate stock got thrown into a bin in the basement which got bricked into a corner & forgotten about for nearly 100 years. It should have turned to dust, but when it was found most of it just needed cleaning up. Virtually no degradation. If nitrate film can survive like that then copies of most of these films could easily be out there, sealed in cans, just sat hidden away.
So many movies were found at the Cinémathèque Française, including "The Unknown", two copies of "Nosferatu" - including the German sonorized version "The Twelth Hour", "Sherlock Holmes" (1926); etc. Henri Langlois and Georges Franj were real precursors...
I got the Blu-Ray of the 1916 SHERLOCK HOLMES. It's one of the CLEANEST-looking silent films I've ever seen! They did a magnificent job on its restoration.
I'm convinced the "Freaks" missing footage exists. I remember seeing a clip of the castrated strongman singing soprano...a supposed lost clip. Convinced reels exist undiscovered in local library AV rooms. Libraries used to have reel festivals in the70's- early 80's before VHS.
The strongman singing "soprano" (or, rather "castrato") was really just comedy relief in order to mitigate the horror of the disfigured woman. As we know, castrating an ADULT male would not cause his voice to rise in pitch. That would have to had been done prior to the end of adolescence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato
It's possible. I remember seeing Song Of The South at a cinema club at my primary school in the early 1980's. It must have been in the private collection of the guy who ran the club. Although it hadn't been banned as such at that time (not that it ever truly has been) Disney had restricted access to any archived copies & had been actively removing old prints from circulation for some time by that point.
Libraries as you say & private collections that still exist from when one of the easiest ways for lots of people to view movies was when they were projected in schools & community centres will undoubtedly contain forgotten copies of many "lost" films.
@@runlarryrun77 we all loved Song of the South. It was the only Disney, Pixar, dreamwork, etc... movie that actually has folk tales from black culture. they essentially banned black culture. We weren't racist so we never saw the historical context to the movie. We just loved the Brer rabbit stories.
Loved Freaks. My brother called me all "freaked out" the first time he saw it. Todd Browning, a genius.
One of a small group of movies that made me lose sleep!
Dude London after midnight is one that I will die wishing I had seen..I know Mark of the Vampire is very close to being a remake of this film..but I just want to see Lon Chaney in that makeup for real on Screen!🧟♂️
Me too!
You can see clips of him somewhere on TH-cam in almost restored fashion. Just keep looking...
@@bendream544 Apparently just stills(photos) of the film exist,which you can see here on TH-cam
@@DW-nb2zc I'm sure I've seen little bits of motion as well as just the stills. Unless it was a dream but it was vivid if it was...
@@bendream544 Yes it was a dream.
The full director's cut of NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS is what I'd love to see.
I also believe there was another silent version of The Phantom of the Opera, that came out in 1916, however, it is completely lost, as in, no still images survive either, no posters survive either.
All that is known is that it was made in Germany, and they know the names of some of the cast members, it was called:
"Das Phantom der Oper"
As for London After Midnight, I can sadly accept that it's lost for eternity, but I hope we are proven wrong.
I never knew about that alternate version of Hammer Films Phantom of the Opera!!
I didn't know either until I started doing research on this video 😂
@@ScribblestoScreen I saw the US TV version, several times, as a kid and wondered what happened to the footage when they started showing the original UK cut on TV.
I have seen some interviews with people who saw London After Midnight when it first came out. They said if the film became available again, most people would find it very disappointing. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew treated the movie pretty much as a joke, and according to people who saw it, that was very apparent. In the end, what makes the film so sought after is both Lon Chaney's incredible makeup, and the infamous Hyde Park murder.
I saw the recreation from the stills recently. I know the recreation is a bit of a hotch potch but I think with a little imagination you get a good sense of the real movie. I've got to say I came away feeling rather underwhelmed. It's not like it was a "corny old movie" kinda thing either. There's plenty of cinema from the era that was genuinely disturbing, so what you're saying about it all being a bit of a joke really makes sense.
Can that be said for the remake in 1935
I’m really big into lost media, horror films, and lost media horror films! And it’s always nice to see people on TH-cam sharing that passion. I also remember a movie about a werewolf I obsessed over a while ago. It was made in the 1910s and all I remember is the poster art being of a man drowning in water with a woman on the other side, terrified. I completely forget the title tho. If anyone knows anything about this please let me know! And no, it’s not the 1913 werewolf film
London After Midnight was Remade as Mark of the Vampire, Starring Bela Lugosi.
Yo! That’s not Lon Chaney Jr in London after Midnight. That’s the old man himself.
This is very well done. As a Universal monster fan, I appreciate your tidbits of trivia. I too have always believed London After Midnight is the Holy Grail of lost films. You are the first to share the plot twist that Lon Chaney is a detective pretending to be a vampire, unlike Mark Of the Vampire with Bela as a hired actor. We were disappointed in that ending, wanting Count Mora to be a real vampire.
Forrest J Ackerman swore that Groucho Marx copied his crouching walk from Chaney’s Man in the Beaver skin hat who was copying an actual bat walking if it had to,lol
@JiggsTheMonk02 noooo way!!! That is amazing. Lon Chaney and Groucho. Two of my all time Favorites. Did you meet Forrey? My brother and I met him at the same convention and we both asked him about what the hell was with Tom Tyler's eyes in Mummy's hand.
@@jimringomartin I met him at the Famous Monsters of Filmland convention in 1995 in North Hollywood,I’m from NYC but I grew up reading FMoFL magazine and I took off from work just to attend it,it was a once in a lifetime experience,I got to meet Forry and speak to him at length,Al (Grandpa) Lewis,who happened to live near me at the time on Roosevelt Island,Adam West,( who was a bit of an asshole and you’d be really disappointed that he was nothing like Batman),John Landis,Hugh Hefner and Sarah Karloff who was a really sweet lady and I had at least the chance to tell her how much I admired her father and what he meant to me in my childhood,all in all,it was pretty memorable,Yes,Forry had a lot of anecdotes about that,he was Ed Wood’s agent at one time and told me how he finagled the actual Creature from the Black Lagoon costume that was rotting away in some kid’s garage whose father was a property manager at Universal International and took the costume home
@@jimringomartin Tom Tyler’s eyes,lol,Yeah,I know exactly what you mean,especially the scene where Dick Foran threw the tana leaves fluid on the floor and the Mummy looked bewildered,I always felt sorry for the Mummy when he got down in the prone position and started drinking the fluid off the floor and then he had Dick Foran smash on the head with the tana leaves cooker and set him on fire,Tom Tyler was the bad guy in Stage Coach and got killed by John Wayne,and then got into a fight with Gary Cooper and was killed by Walter Brennan in The Westerner and then he was a wounded cavalry soldier in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
@@JiggsTheMonk02 he was born to die
The Shining ending still exists. I saw it about 5 years ago at Renaissance Theater in sturtevant, WI.
I've seen it too, a while ago. Somewhere on here I think.
dude your videos are really good. You can always try a couple "sell out" videos in between your quality ones. We won't be mad at you
Alright here we go! I just found your channel through the Shrek video, and that's definitely cool but now I see a video about classic horror movies?? Now That's!! more my style.
Good video, mate. There were actually a couple in here I didn't already know of!
I'm glad to hear that mate!!! It's great fun giving respect to the classics
Hope you enjoyed the recent Frankenstein video as well 😁👍
Surprised you didn’t talk about the deleted scenes from Child’s Play and the Friday the 13th series.
What’s the deleted scenes
Well I suppose I was discussing more of the classic horrors and this one, may be for next year
@@bigj7933 Child’s Play 1988 has tons of deleted scenes, the movie was almost 3 hours. But now it’s just 1 hour, lots of Chucky audience thinks MGM has Child’s Play 1988 deleted scenes in a vault and we’ll probably never see them.
@@cobrakairobloxenthusiast4291 interesting
@@ScribblestoScreen I Spokane to a younger woman who to,d me she loved classic horror films. Then she proceeded to list ‘Saw’ as an example.
Goddamn I felt old when she said that.
YEEE NEW VIDEO love your doctor who iceberg for lost media but yeah keep going man!!
Cheers bud
To the contrary, the title "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" is actually accurate. In the film, Ilona Massey plays Baroness Elsa Frankenstein, who cordially **meets** Lon Chaney Jr.'s character. In that sense, the film lives up to its title.
The Cat Creeps 1930. The first sound version was supposed to be lost but I heard for years they have found the original sound disc's. Then not too long ago they found almost the entire film except the ending. That's all I know.
This is an excellent video with material that isn't normally seen on videos of this type. Excellent research - highly enjoyable and informative.
I have a t shirt with the London After Midnight vampire on it. I would love for someone to find a copy somewhere of that film. I heard the last copy was lost in a fire in a movie house in the 1950's. It's amazing how popular that character is, and the film probably hasn't been seen for over 70 years.
I think it being unseen and mostly known by that one infamous still is the reason it's so popular. Truth be told, it didn't become the holy grail of lost film due to it being an alleged masterpiece. Even in it's original release it had mediocre reviews. Browning's own remake, 1935's MARK OF THE VAMPIRE, was widely considered a superior film.
But today, that shot of Chaney looking straight at the camera, in makeup, _is_ the film in a way. And it's a great shot.
Honestly, I think I'd rather not see the film. Rumor and infamy have raised expectations to a level that can't possibly be met. If it could, then it wouldn't have gotten such a lackluster reception in 1925. I got a sense of what it could've been from the stills and the reconstructed version. I'm fine leaving it at that. I'd rather see DRACULA'S DEATH. I'm very intrigued by its insane asylum spin on Dracula.
@@zmbdog True the movie itself may not be that good but it has the Man Of A Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney playing a truly unique and terrifying looking character
The last surviving copy of "London After Midnight" is known to have perished in the 1965 MGM Vault fire. There may still be some hope that it exists in some studio head's private collection, passed down to heirs who are keeping mum on the subject, but there's not much hope. But that's what they said about 1927's "Metropolis", and that's been finally restored to within five minutes of its original cut (I remember being given a copy of the VHS tape back in the 80s that was less than HALF of this film's original length). Read Wikipedia's articles on lost and re-found films to see what downright wacky places some of the re-found films have been located.
The American edit of Evil of Frankenstein was shown on ITV during the 1970s, I remember those extra sequences well.
I do have Universal's edit of "The Phantom of the Opera" (dir; by Terence Fisher) described above. If I remember well, three Hammer Films were submitted to the same treatman, but I don't remember the title of the last one...
Nice to see you again!
London After Midnight could be remade today, but with that concept it could be a gritty and atmospheric superhero movie.
Is it still owned by MGM or is it in the public domain?
In 3 years it will be public domain.
@@J0SHUAKANE Good to know! Thanks!
I believe TCM has showed the stills from London After Midnight. I think the stills available were from The Library of Congress.
I LOVE this stuff!!!
I thought you would save this for Halloween
yasss my favorite topic!! lost film especially horror
unmade hammer horror deserves it's own presentation
Great episode.
Cool video! There's something intriguing about missing reels of classic films....especially from the silent era where the nitrate used in the movie reels of the time made them especially perishable. One of the greatest of these situations involves the German movie Metropolis. The two-hour cut that was most available had over an hour of footage cut out, making the film somewhat incoherent. Here and there, they've discovered missing pieces of the film in various parts of the world resulting in a somewhat more complete Kino release of Metropolis. Perhaps many of the missing films or missing scenes will be discovered one day in a forgotten storage room somewhere in the Third World.
I may be wrong but I think there's nothing more to be found of Metropolis now. Everything seems to be accounted for, just a few minutes were missing & the remnants of poor quality copies of those were recently discovered. The footage wouldn't really add anything other than a couple of brief close ups of Freder & Maria that could be easily substituted for existing restored close ups from elsewhere in that section of the film. Other that that the missing 4% or so of the movie seems be accounted for with establishing shots & intertitle cards that were removed to cut run time.
I've seen every version of that film over the years as more complete versions have emerged. Every time it becomes more engrossing, involving & exhausting as you become so much more deeply involved with the story & characters because every expansion of the story gives you a greater payoff at the climax.
Given that the narrative now seems complete it's hard to see how there can be any significant missing portions of the film. Lang's notes & shooting scripts indicate that other than perhaps a few close ups from the final sequences there's nothing of any real significance left to add. What I would like to see now is a crisp digital remaster, but hopefully that's in the works.
This is a rarity, but the work on this one is done now. Once considered lost, we can now see Metropolis as Lang envisioned it. Instead of lusting for more, we should celebrate what we have.
WHAT ABOUIT "The Janus Face" which stared Conrad Veit and Bela Lugosi ?
Lon Chaney Jr was not in London After Midnight. Nor was he considered The Man of a Thousand Faces
Great idea, feed someone to piranhas while standing barefoot ankle deep in the same water.
oh what would i give to see those lost scene of Freak
You could do a whole video about Little Shop of Horrors.
I've been researching lost horror for years, particularly post-1950 films as they're forever neglected in favor of old silents. I can honestly say there are _way_ more MIA modern films than anyone suspects.
Regarding VOODOO HEARTBEAT, I have no clue why it's always listed as a 1973 film. Its first screening was on the last day of the Cannes Film Festival in 1970 as THE SEX SERUM OF DR. BLAKE. As far as I've put together, it first played U.S. theaters (as VOODOO HEARTBEAT) in Mississippi in July 1972 and continued region by region over the next several years. It even had a second release (while the first one was still active!) under the SEX SERUM title, beginning in North Carolina in 1976. Considering that this release carried an X rating and mostly played adult theaters, while VOODOO played regular houses with an R (and sometimes PG) rating, I think these were two _very_ different cuts of the film.
Years ago, someone at Belfilm told me they have a 35mm Dutch-subtitled print (under the DR. BLAKE title) and that they hold the home media rights to the film worldwide. If true, then why they've done nothing with it is anyone's guess. Though apparently the print is available for rent should anyone want to organize a screening (or lie about one).
Someone else could have lodged a counter claim, or disputed copyright on something in the soundtrack. Unfortunately things like that happen all the time.
As you're more about the modern films you're probably aware that we recently "lost" a whole load of cinema release versions of well known 1980's movies due to a whole back catalogue of music changing hands.
Joe Dante's Explorers was one of them. It's been re-edited now using footage from tv & video release edits, but a couple of scenes are missing & the ending is slightly different. It really irks me when red tape & small print mess up classic media both for the people who created them in the first place & for those of us who loved them in their original form.
You didn't really tell me anything about these movies that I didn't already know about most of them
It's Called Clickbait My Friend.
At least LAM had a plethora of stills and a script to help make that "recreation". I wish the same could be done for Chaney's "A Blind Bargain/The Octave of Claudius".
Subbed
VOODOO HEARTBEAT is scheduled for Blu-Ray release very soon, and it was actually never lost. There was just a lot of confusion regarding rights ownership.
21:52 I saw a partial reconstruction using stills and the script. I THINK it was on AMC.
I have a copy of London After Midnight. But its made up of the original title cards, with stills and lobby card photos used in between. Because there are only a certain amount of photo stills and lobby cards used, its a bit repetitive and I only could watch about 10 minutes of it because of this! Still a labour of love from someone trying hard to piece the movie back together. I enjoyed your list too thanks!
Maybe a "labour of love" but the result - I watched it on French TV - was boring to death. It would probably better in a book format, with the same elements.
London after Midnight was released after being pieced together from picture’s of the film . It was released in a Lon Chaney six movie set
London after midnight I would have love to have seen
"London after midnight" AKA "Scooby doo where are you?"
I can't believe they laughed at Bela's accent I feel so bad for him :(
They had Scenes with the Monster talking in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman.
For some reason they didn't go over very well with Test Audiences.
Nitrate film is a funny thing. Yes it normally degrades if left unattended, but curious things can happen. Look at the example of the "lost" Mitchell & Kenyon films. Hundreds of feet of nitrate footage from around 1900, just thrown into a bin in an alcove in a shop basement that got bricked up & forgotten about. By rights that nitrate should have crumbled to dust or started to smoulder, but it just sat there until it was discovered when the building was renovated in the late 1990's. Very little restoration was needed.
Somewhere in dry, dusty attics, safely sealed up inside film cannisters, lie almost pristine copies of a lot of these missing movies. I'm certain of it.
It's the same things for human corpses (excluding mummies, of course).
I seem to remember the Patrick Troughten scene in a BBC Horror Night broadcast of the Frankenstein Hammer film (Lee and Cushing) around 1970. Troughten played the Morgue administrator. So that version must exist.
Coming full circle, Troughton played a grave-robber near the beginning of Fisher's FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL.
Did you have idea about making a video for the lost Phantom of the Opera adaptations?
I know there are some that was forgot to time.
I once watched a very poor copy of 'The Ghoul', the believed lost but then found first British talking horror film, with Boris Karloff hamming it up. Filmed through a downpour of grimy celluloid, it had been discovered in a vault in Poland. My wife said it was a thousand pities it had ever been rediscovered.......... It was pretty awful.
Dammit. Before watching this I had never even heard of "Nobody Ordered Love". Now I have to see it.
I remember a tv version of HG Wells' Village of the Blind that only exists in the Library of Congress as a negative and a soundtrack. Called The Richest Man in Bogata, I remember a great perfomance by Lee Marvin. Hope someone restores it
Hmmm...scratches chin. That was quite interesting.
I wonder what this werewolf would have looked like, have you heard of the Island of Lost Souls and as form the Freaks a woman filed a lawsuit of the film for giving her a miscarriage.
Very interesting.
I’d love to hear this in English.
Carnage Hall
Post Mortem (Carnage Hall 2)
Canzo Empyrean
Cloverfield R rated cut
Dead Easy
Dead End 1985(if it actually exists, there is a lot to say about this one)
Just a few that I never really see talked about.
Huh. Forgot cloverfield was pg 13 tbh. Also aren't the post mortem movies just mixtapes of dead people?
@@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529 no, but i did get the title to the first part wrong "Two stars of "Carnage Hall," Camp and Schmidt, will be re-incarnated in "Post Mortem" as ghosts. Camp and Schmidt are waiting in purgatory, because they killed an innocent resident in the first movie."
John Carpenter's The Thing
An American Werewolf in London deleted scenes
Event Horizon, The Mummy (1932), and Jacob's Latter lost scenes
@@J0SHUAKANE i've heard that 'Dead End' is a hoax, the movie never existed
3:48 it's funny because HBO max used to feature both versions of this movie, but now it seems they took down the director's cut and only the theatrical version is available, at least on my end i can't find it anywhere on their site . A day ago i wanted to show a friend of mine Little Shop of Horrors, the Director's Cut not the Theatrical BS ending, and i just couldn't find it anymore on HBO Max. F you HBO.
Wow.
I’m not sure but I think you keep conflating Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney junior.
They really f'ed Bela
London After Midnight stars Lon Chaney Sr, not Jr.
London After Midnight starred Lon Chaney, not Lon Chaney Junior.
My addition to this list...if you'd indulge me, is Reanimator. Saw it in the theater for the first time and it blew me away. Gory, gory, gory...great special effects and good acting. But...something really bugged me about the characters motivations. It wasn't till many years later that I saw a HEAVILY edited version on T.V. There was about 15 mins of exposition that made certain motivations very clear... obviously added to pad out the running time due to the gore cuts made. Bought a special edition cut of this movie on DVD awhile back and damned if those extra scenes were not on it. Been searching for a copy with the extra material for years...no dice.
TV edits of theatrical releases are a subject unto itself. In 1974 I saw the network version of Fistful of Dollars which had a brief prologue that turned Eastwood's character into a kind of secret agent assigned to infiltrate an outlaw gang. Awkward and absurd.
I saw "Reanmator" in a theater when it was just released, and nobody needed explanations of the character's motivation. Nobody with a working brain, in any case.
@@todslaughter2 There are two types of people that post in the comment section. One has something relevant to add to the discussion. The second are inadequate little cowards who wouldn't dare make their comments to a persons face. Take that so called "working brain" of yours and try to figure out which one suits you best.
Uh, its Lon Chaney SR in London After Midnight.
I like the this
Have you looked behind the couch? If something's missing, it's usually there.
I find that one kind of unintentionally comedic, like it's the early days of the bleep on TV. 2:58-3:07
London after midnight was Lon chaney,not jr,jr was the wolfman
I know that there's a 16mm version of London After Midnight, because it was being played in one of the Whitechapel Murders series, and so must be true. ;-)
Surprised Nightbreed didn't get a mention
I’d like to personally add All American massacre & the extended gore from Event horizon.
All American Massacre because it’s a TCM sequel that’s centered around chop top & his murderous antics, it had been fully made but hasn’t been released because of legal/copyright bs
Event horizon because they cut 30 minutes of gore like dude 30 fuckin minutes, I know it wasn’t 100% gore scenes but just look up the “Murder Fuck Orgy” scene. Because if you’re here, watching this video, reading this comment then that’s probably some sick shit you’d low key want to watch too.
I have the Lon Chaney Phantom on DVD
Dracula's Death sounds like the video 'D', where a lady checks her elderly father into an asylum. Turns out that he's actually Dracula.
The dream woman reminds me of beta nightmare on elm street
Just watched this a 2nd time. Yeah, I thought that Ingrid Pitt in "Nobody Ordered Love" (1972). How absurd is it to have a film THAT RECENT become lost ?
Every censored word should have an appropriate sound effect. Lol
Kongo Kenny Meets Jive Jane came out in 1930 and is very hard to find
The original Frankenstein movie was based on Mary Shelley's to some extent the movie portrays Victor Frankenstein as a crazy mad doctor with flamboyant behavior
The late 90s film I think is the best adaptation of the novel more based on the book than any other
It portrayed Victor as a young man as he was in the novel also the book refers to the monster as the creature and he was more a man than he was a monster as he was portrayed in the late 90s film
If you can stream it I highly recommend a late Corman film from 1990 called Frankenstein Unbound. Unlike a lot of Corman movies it had a decent budget, high production values & a good cast including John Hurt & Bridget Fonda.
I won't spoil it for you in case you do want to watch it. I'll just say this - on the face of it the movie is a nonsensical retelling of the Frankenstein story with a few random modern sci fi elements thrown in to spice things up, but the overall narrative follows the original story in such a way that at that time hadn't been done in any movie that I was aware of. Since then only the late 90's version has done it better.
Yes. But "this best adaptation" (presuming you're talking about the one with Robert De Niro as the Creature ,) is a mediocre film - when James Whale's movie remains a total masterpiece, in spite - of because - being very different from the M.W. Shelley novel (I like the novel, and have read it a number of time since 1954, when I was 14).
I can only find a 2005 remake of London After Midnight on streaming. Not the original
Although not a traditional horror film " The Man who Laughs " with Conrad Veidt appeared as an inspiration for a modern film touching upon the murder of the Black Dahlia. Scarlett Johansen was in it. "The Black Dahlia 2006, Josh Hartnett
The guy from "London After Midnight" lives across the alley from me - never see him during the day though. I did talk to him at night and asked how things were going ' He said "Top coat, top hat I don't worry because my wallets fat!"....
At 3:17 he was more like Gods mechanic.
LESS AND LESS UNLIKELY ??????? I’m sure you meant ....less and less likely ...........P.S. “ LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT “WAS SHOWN ON NETWORK American TV DURING THE 1950’s.....somewhere out there there is a copy......perhaps a REWARD OFFER MAY FIND IT ? ...ALSO ...THE 1919 CHANEY Film “ The Miracle Man “ must be on your next list of Masterpieces that Must Be Found !…… Keep up the Great Work !
Why the footage of the 1910 Edison "Frankenstein" while discussing the 1922 Italian "Il Mostro di Frankenstein"? Not enough in the way of stills or background to make up the entry?
The title is a bit misleading, since some of these scenes have been restored, so Frankenstein is wrongly on the list, as it is not currently a lost horror movie. Your writing is mostly good, but the grammar is kind of awful. For example, in the last segment, you say that seeing a print of London After Midnight is "less and less unlikely" to be seen over time. You meant to say " less and less likely." You also use many redundant words throughout this and other of your projects. I enjoy them just the same, but perhaps you could have your scripts proofread before you track them. Keep up the good storytelling.
Deleted scenes do not make for 'lost' movies.
I have the feeling that Hammer films are gory
Of course they were gory, for their time. I was born in 1940, so I was 17 when "The Curse of Frankenstein" was released in Paris, and 18 for "Horror of Dracula". I was a kind of veteran, having seen horror movies - always in theaters of course - since the age of 13. Well, these Hammer movies were more gory than any other films that I knew in 1957/58...
@@todslaughter2 my favourite and maybe only horror film is White Zombie, takes the origins of Zombies, adds in a couple and has a happy ending
Honestly, I prefer the theatrical ending to Little Shop as opposed to the cut ending. I don't wanna see Rick Moranis die off. After all, he never really killed the dentist or Mr. Mushnik, unlike the Broadway show. I wanted him to live happily ever after with Audrey. But hey, at least we say that baby Audrey III smile at the audience as to say "Uh oh... Here we go again."
It becomes less and less likely, not less and less unlikely. Think about it and you will realize your mistake, the difference is subtle but it's there. Otherwise we'll done.
That's actually back when a movie had a great plot and very little bs.
Every era of movie history has the good, the meh and the grabage. There's just as much good and bad now as there was in the past. Don't let nostalgia cloud you.
as for the Shining Stanley Koo-brick NOT Kue-brick never has any deleted scenes why? one he thought they weren't good enough to be seen he had destroyed them. This is why the famous deleted pie fight scene and the end of dr Strangelove only still photos exist the shot footage was destroyed by Kubrick himself.
London After Midnight wasn't actually a horror film, it was a 'spooky old house' film.
"Mark of the Vampire" is considered as a horror film, and it's just the talky version of the same story !
Chaney's Phantom was more melodrama than horror. London After Midnight was not horror, but rather a mystery.
Mark of the Vampire was a direct remake of London After Midnight and is considered as a HORROR film - and was exploited as such everywhere. And Chaney's Phantom is what we call à Horror Melodrama, just like most of the Tod Slaughter movies.
Have you seen the original ending of Halloween
Though not exactly a horror movie... MY favorite story of a once-lost film was the 1929 German "DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE", with Carlyle Blackwell as Sherlock Holmes. It seems a Czech print turned up in a church in Poland, which started the ball rolling. Chunks that were missing were filled in using a "9mm home movie print" from France. NO, REALLY. The original German dialogue was confirmed because the "censor records" had the complete screenplay on paper intact. STILL-missing scenes near the beginning were filled in with STILL photos taken from a promotional booklet (and fortunately, these were mainly scenes that introduced characters, NOT any part of the action-filled climax). The film was then as FULLY restored as possible-- the 35 sections now looking STUNNING while the 9mm sections, far less so. It was issued on DVD & Blu-Ray with GERMAN subtitles, and optional ENGLISH and POLISH subtitles (the latter because that was the country it was found in and who were involved in part of the restoration process). I keep wondering if some other outfits will license the restoration and release it with either Czech or French subtitles (heh).
There are at least 23 different film adaptations of "HOUND" (23!!!) and this 1929 version has become one of my favorites from the moment I first watched it. This is a WONDERFUL time to be collecting really old movies!
If you count TV-adaptations (TV-movies or mini-series) I counted no less than 20 adaptations of Wilkie Collins' "The Lady in White" - including in Japan !
Some of these movies have stills immortalised by the horror top trump card sets named Dracula and Devil Priest. Notably the card called The Jailer depicts a manacled man being threatened by a green skinned wart ridden man with a flaming torch which is based on a shot of a manacled Frankenstein’s Monster being threatened by Victor Frankenstein’s assistant Fritz in exactly the same way.
EDIT: London After Midnight, the character is referenced in horror top trumps by the card The Mad Magician.
Others off the top of my head are Man Eating Plant, King Kong, Godzilla, Dracula, Frankenstein (incorrectly named), The Thing and so many more it’s great to see they have taken a still from a movie and turned it into a card, obviously some are well known while some like The Jailer are certainly lifted from movies, Man Eating Plant was not Audrey 2, but it is directly copied from a missing B movie creature, I came across the picture a few years ago and thought “WOW, that’s Man Eating Plant!”