Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on July 26, 2007 at 13:08:08

In Reply to: RE: Along with "Vampyr," and the "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" it completes a great posted by tinear on July 26, 2007 at 05:09:41

The KINO seems best, but the over-saturated tinting weakens the presentation considerably in my estimation. The earlier Image release is better overall, it's noirish effects working quite well without the extreme tinting, but in spite of better preservation of the Russian archive's film elements from which this version was derived the DVD suffers from poor frame synchronization resulting in jitter and improper alignment.

I don't know about a trilogy but there are other great European silents with supernatural elements, such as Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse and F.W. Murnau's Faust that are every bit the equal of Vampyr, Caligari and Nosferatu. I'm also inclined to add Paul Leni's Waxworks with it's macabre segments that are like O'Henry channeled through Poe.

Cheers,
AuPh