When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A new — and offbeat — thing. "I spoke to a lot of old-timers who saw it ...

Lon Chaney was a legendary American who was also known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces." This was because he brought rich character portrayals and transformative makeup skills to the silver screen ...

A masterpiece of silent horror cinema is coming to one of San Francisco's Gothic revival jewels just in time for Halloween. Director Rupert Julian's 1925 adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel "The ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — It was a film considered so frightening when first released that theaters were advised to have doctors standing by in case moviegoers fainted. It was the original big screen ...

What is old is new again when it comes to silent films, now making a comeback in metropolitan areas such as New York City. “The Wall Street Journal” notes that venues such as Film Forum routinely ...

"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...

The first week of January 1926 in Uniontown was unseasonably warm, with high temperatures bumping up close to 60 degrees, which might have made the post-holiday doldrums a little easier to bear. But ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The 1925 silent adaptation of “The Phantom Of The Opera” will screen for free with live music at UPAC in Midtown and also at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie. There will be a live ...

He was called “the man of 1000 faces.” Lon Chaney was born in Colorado Springs in 1883. The child of deaf parents and grandson of the founder of the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Chaney ...

The rumor in Canal Winchester, Ohio, is that actor Lon Chaney, is related to the O.P. Chaney Grain Elevator family. Lon Chaney was best known for his horror film roles in the 1920s, including The ...