German Expressionism bent sets, shadows, and sanity to show inner states on screen, and cinema never fully straightened back out. This tag collects reviews and essays on Expressionist film and its permanent influence.
1920sJune 6, 2026
Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.
1930sMay 19, 2026
Boris Karloff plays the creature stitched together from corpses and animated by a scientist who quickly loses control of his creation. Frankenstein is James Whale's 1931 American horror film adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the 1927 Peggy Webling…
1940sMay 19, 2026
Carol Reed's 1949 post-war Vienna thriller. Joseph Cotten investigates Orson Welles.
1920sMay 17, 2026
Fritz Lang's 1927 German silent SF epic. The film every dystopian city movie has copied.
1930sMay 17, 2026
Fritz Lang's 1931 German film. Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by both police and the criminal underworld.
1990sMarch 20, 2026
Dark City is the most underrated film in the history of science fiction cinema. It arrived in 1998, one year before The Matrix, explored several of the same fundamental questions about manufactured reality and the nature of consciousness, and was…
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