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sneez · 23 hours

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linocut study of the poster for the 1924 film orlacs hände :-)

#artwork #the hands of orlac #conrad veidt #my most recent linocut hooraaaay i really like how this one turned out #i have done two others which i havent posted yet but i will soon. or at least one of them (i dont like how the other one turned out so much #anyway i love this film his acting in it is superb he makes the most incredible tortured faces #really a masterclass in forehead vein performance #i am away from my lino tools now that i am back at uni so i cannot make any more for a while :-( alas #i think it is probably a good thing though because i have inflicted multiple injuries upon myself as a result of doing so much #dopey bastard disease #i hope you are all well my friends!!! my usual apologies for unanswered asks which i say every time i post everything. i am sorry i love yo #oh also i should confess i only have black ink so i cobbled this together by printing on white and then red paper and splicing the two #pictures together digitally. i am sorry for my deception </3 i am a fraud. a con artist #he he. con artist. artist. he he

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bwallure · 6 months

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THE HANDS OF ORLAC | ORLACS HÄNDE (1924) dir. Robert Wiene

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goryhorroor · 2 years

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20s horror girls

#Taking it all the way back to the start #horror #horror movies #nosferatu #the phantom of the opera #the cabinet of dr. caligari #the hands of orlac #faust #dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #the hunchback of notre dame #the cat and the canary #a page of madness #the haunted house #moviesedit #filmedit #horroredit #cinema

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anatomicalmartyr · 1 year

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rip 1920′s Conrad Veidt fangirls, you would have loved 2020′s tumblr

#conrad veidt #the hands of orlac #the indian tomb #the cabinet of dr. caligari #horror #eroticism #dark eroticism #classic horror #film history #classic cinema #silent cinema #men #cesare the somnambulist #demon lover #my posts

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weirdlookindog · 10 days

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Christopher Lee in The Hands of Orlac (1960)

#the hands of orlac #christopher lee #1960s horror #1960s movies #1960 #edmond t. greville #horror

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flypanegg88 · 1 year

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『The Hands of Orlac』　(1924)

#conrad veidt #the hands of orlac #german film #my artwork #silent film

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orpheuslookingback · 6 months

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Watching 1 horror movie everyday in October 27/31

The Hands of Orlac (1924), dir. Robert Wiene

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silentagecinema · 5 months

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1920s ladies: alexandra sorina as yvonne orlac in the hands of orlac (1924)

#1920s #1920s cinema #old cinema #alexandra sorina #the hands of orlac #horror #silent horror #horroredit #moviesedit #filmedit #cinema #screencaps

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thewarmestplacetohide · 5 months

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Freaky Facts: Orlacs Hände (1924)

(My Review) (My Screenshots)

#Orlacs Hände (1922)#Orlacs Hände #The Hands of Orlac (1922)#The Hands of Orlac #Freaky Facts

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the-watcher-in-the-sky · 1 year

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imsorryimlate · 1 year

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i love how there’s an entire subgenre of film that’s just doctors putting conrad veidt in Situations

#the cabinet of doctor caligari #the hands of orlac #conrad veidt #me: there’s a whole subgenre!! *can only name two (2) examples*

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sci-firenegade · 6 months

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The amount of doomed musicians Conrad Veidt played is quite impressive. It's around 3 or 4 at least.

And two of them are named Paul.

#conrad veidt #the hands of orlac #anders als die andern #among others #sci's musings

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goryhorroor · 2 years

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silent horror • movie posters

#There's just something about silent horror movie posters!#horror #horror movies #dante's inferno #the cabinet of dr. caligari #the gothem #dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #the haunted house #nosferatu #haxan #the hunchback of notre dame #the hands of orlac #the phantom of the opera #movies #movie posters #vintage art #art

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manletmanservant · 7 months

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Orlac’s Hände

#conrad veidt #silent film #horror #veidtnation #the hands of orlac

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weirdlookindog · 7 months

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Conrad Veidt in The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände, 1924)

#orlacs hände #the hands of orlac #the hands of orlac 1924 #conrad veidt #1924 #1920s movies #robert wiene #classic horror

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nitrateglow · 7 months

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Halloween 2023 marathon: 19-21

The Hands of Orlac (dir. Robert Wiene, 1924)

Concert pianist Orlac (Conrad Veidt) is excited to return from touring to the arms of his loving wife Yvonne (Alexandra Sorina) right before he suffers injuries in a train crash. While the accident does not kill him, it destroys his hands. His hands being key to his livelihood, Orlac despairs, but the doctors are able to graft new ones onto his wrists. All well and good, with one problem: the hands were taken from the corpse of a guillotined murderer, Orlac is uncomfortable with them from the outset, and once he learns of their origins, Orlac is becoming paranoid that the hands will influence him to kill. Driven to madness by his fears, will Orlac resort to violence?

The Hands of Orlac has a great premise and a great lead actor in the compelling, expressive Conrad Veidt. The atmosphere, though not as surreal as Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, is decidedly nightmarish and suffocating as the protagonist's paranoia consumes him.

If only the pacing wasn't the worst.

Like, there's slow pacing and then there's submerging your movie in molasses. Orlac runs almost two hours long and much of it is just dedicated to Veidt's very deliberated mannerisms and reactions. I love Veidt-- he was one of the greatest actors of the silent era-- but the scenes of him staring in horror at his hands and whatnot just go on forever and to no real benefit to the story.

And that's unfortunate because this is a very mature, subdued psychological horror film, more about inner conflict than external monsters or psychopaths (though the movie does ultimately have a villain). In some ways, it's ahead of its time: the urban gloom on display here foreshadows the film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s. However, it's so slow that I had a hard time getting into it.

The Island of Lost Souls (dir. Erle C. Kenton, 1932)

Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is having a bad week: his ship sank, the captain of the ship that rescued him doesn't like him, and now because of that he's been marooned on the Island of Dr. Moreau, a small bit of land not present on any sea chart. Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) seems an amiable, jovial fellow, but what is to be made of the tortured screams in the night or the cowering, abused "natives" who seem to view Moreau as a god? Turns out, Moreau is trying to speed up evolution with his experiments on animals and he hopes to prove his creations can mate with humans by offering Parker his sole female subject, Lota (Kathleen Burke).

The Island of Lost Souls is quintessential pre-code horror, right there with The Most Dangerous Game and the 1932 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's gruesome for 1932, dealing with vivisection, inter-species sex, and animal cruelty. Imagine any of THAT flying come the enforcement of the Code.

This is one of very few older horror movies I find genuinely unpleasant even if it doesn't outright show Dr. Moreau cutting up his experiments while they're still very much conscious. Screams are ever present on the soundtrack and they aren't cheesy horror movie yelps. The moans and screaming in this thing are chilling. The humid jungle atmosphere is also palpable, creating a sense of suffocating entrapment. As much as I love many of the classic Universal horror movies, they don't have that same sense of dread and evil this one still possesses.

The Penthouse (dir. Peter Collinson, 1967)

Crooked businessman Bruce (Terence Morgan) and his shopgirl mistress Barbara (Suzy Kendall) find themselves at the mercy of two thugs who break into the penthouse apartment they use for their adulterous liaisons. Tom (Tony Beckley) and Dick (Norman Rodway) are childlike yet ruthless, getting Barbara intoxicated while they tie Bruce up and make him watch. Or rather listen, because boy do these fellas love monologuing.... lots and lots and lots of monologuing.

Yes, the guy who directed The Italian Job made a home invasion movie. It also sucks. Like, oh my GOD, this was designed to torture me, I swear, and not in the way the filmmakers intended. It feels like a college assignment turned into a movie.

Okay, let me be nice first. Visually, this is of interest. Not the quality of the image-- the YouTube upload looks like it was dragged up from VHS hell-- but from what I can see of the compositions and the camerawork, this is a visually dynamic movie doing its hardest to make you forget the script is based on a stage play.

But that's impossible because this is one of those movies where the characters never shut the hell up. They monologue endlessly about Societal Ills and Important Class Themes, occasionally breaking up the lecturing with oddball criminal antics, pot smoking, and violence. It's like an attempt at a "hipper" (for 1967) and more intellectual version of The Desperate Hours, where an ordinary middle-class family is held hostage by criminals as motivated by class-based bitterness as they are by money or freedom. But holy crap, does. It. Drag. 100 minutes of dragging.

Admittedly, the dynamic between Tom and Dick is a little interesting. They're the types who finish each other's sentences and genuinely seem to relish each other's company as they bond over doing these terrible things. They were fascinating to watch when not burdened with pretentious monologues about how baby alligators being flushed down toilets represent society's outliers.

Martine Beswick shows up in the last section as the third accomplice "Harry." Other reviewers claim she brightens up the film, but her appearance is so brief and much ado about nothing at all that she didn't make watching this any more entertaining for me.

The Penthouse feels like a parody of the worst kind of "elevated horror," boring nonsense masquerading as a social statement. Parts of it are memorably bizarre, but there's not enough of that for me to recommend it.

#halloween 2023 marathon #thoughts #the hands of orlac #the island of lost souls #the penthouse #i feel so much of this is negative and i apologize #but man hands of orlac and the penthouse let me down

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