I personally really like great atmospheric films like this one. Are there any other good ones that anyone can suggest to me?
shareSimilar in mood and setting, if not plot...
"Vampyr"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/
"La Belle et la Bête"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/
What do you mean by atmospheric?
shareI actually found about htis film in http://filmjourney.weblogger.com/2003/10/13
ITs a top ten with atmospehric eerie pictures. Very much recomended!
I personally found atmospheric the strong part of film. All of thos interested in plot should stick to reading
Yes, try "Institute Benjamenta" directed by the Brothers Quay. Clearly, the film was highly influenced by Fall of the House of Usher.
shareI too don't know exactly what being atmospheric means. I saw the term applied very liberally to all kinds of movies, even to an awful garbage like 'Silent hill' (sorry I even mention it here).
Anyway, as expressionist examples and all things very twisted and gothic, here are some early examples to mention:
'Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari';
F.W. Murnau movies, perhaps 'Schloß Vogeloed' as one of the earlier examples , followed by 'Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens', Faust, etc.
Wegener's Golem (1920 version).
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The Cat And The Canary - 1927, Paul Leni,
Orphée - 1950, Jean Cocteau,
Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975, Peter Weir,
La Chambre Verte - 1978, Francois Truffaut.
"When there is no more room in the Oven,
the Bread will walk the Earth."
Aside from the already mentioned brilliant "Vampyr" (Dreyer, 1932) the other essential film that comes to mind in this regard is "The Phantom Carriage" (Sjöström, 1921). Both great atmospheric horror pictures of the early days of film which are great alternatives to the typical Universal monster flics.
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