Tonight, I’m interviewing Rob Byrne. Mr. Byrne is a film restorer of silent films and is the President of the Board of San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFFS). Tonight, he is talking to me about the silent film era in regard to the horror genre. How were the films we today call ‘horror’ described as back then? How were they perceived? Were filmmakers aiming at psychological or gory horror? Find out how everything started.
Silent Era: The Foundation of Cinematic Horror
- Tagged
- A Page of Madness
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Behind the Door
- Blackmail
- cinema
- David Lynch
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Film
- George Melies
- Guy Maddin
- Häxan
- Horror
- International
- London After Midnight
- Midnight Faces
- movies
- Nosferatu
- Podcast
- Rob Byrne
- Silent Era: The Foundation of Cinematic Horror
- Silent Film
- Tenet
- The Arrival of a Train
- The Bat
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Cat and the Canary
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Golem
- The Man who Laughs
- The Monster
- The Phantom Carriage
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Unknown
- Tod Browning
- Waxworks
Published
That was truly amazing and who knows one day you may be at that San Francisco 5 day festival. Putty it’s the wrong time of year for the NFL.
One stone, two birds. And, hopefully, when the 49ers have a season like last year.