Lon Chaney
Actor · 1883 – 1930 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques that he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces". Description above from the Wikipedia article Lon Chaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.1HorrorThe deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · 418 votes
Movie6.5RomanceDramaIn 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 · 143 votes
Movie7.5DramaThrillerOn the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
The Unknown
1927 · 220 votes
Movie6.8DocumentaryTV MovieLon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000 · 13 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryFamous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007 · 2 votes
Movie7.6DramaThrillerAfter a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
He Who Gets Slapped
1924 · 111 votes
Movie7.4DramaA despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 · 40 votes
- Movie7.7Documentary
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974 · 3 votes
Movie6.7MysteryThrillerAn independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
Hollywood Story
1951 · 24 votes
Movie7.1DocumentaryTV MovieA documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Universal Horror
1998 · 21 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceAdaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Victory
1919 · 13 votes
Movie6.5ActionComedyU.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.
Tell It to the Marines
1926 · 20 votes
Movie3.5DocumentaryHorrorHosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000 · 2 votes
Movie8.5DocumentaryThe House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
The House That Shadows Built
1931 · 2 votes
Movie7.0AdventureYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Treasure Island
1920 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryTV MovieAmong the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · 1 votes
Movie6.9DramaThrillerA magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
West of Zanzibar
1928 · 44 votes
Movie6.6HorrorMysteryThe abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.
London After Midnight
1927 · 31 votes
Movie5.8DramaA miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
The Trap
1922 · 9 votes
Movie6.7CrimeThrillerThree sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
The Unholy Three
1925 · 62 votes
Movie8.3DocumentaryTV MovieA collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
The Horror of It All
1983 · 6 votes
Movie3.4HorrorDocumentaryA history of horror movies.
The Horror Show
1979 · 5 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryHorrorJoin foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014 · 4 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaA romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
The Ace of Hearts
1921 · 34 votes