Watched as part of the Letterboxd Season Challenge Week 8: Halloween Special: Old School Horror Week.
This movie was very good, especially for a 93 year old movie. I'm not sure if this counts as a horror movie, IMDb only lists it as a drama romance, while Letterboxd lists it as drama horror. But I guess this is just a mixture.
Lon Chaney is the best. Even though he has so much make up and costuming, you can still see the emotions on his face.
The story is interesting and well known and really not that horror-like. But on the other hand, Chaney looks horrific.
Maybe it was a little long, but that was of course because of the title cards that actually take about 20 minutes of the movies time.
It was shot very well, some scenes were outstanding to me, like in one shot the two romantic leads are holding each other and in the background we see Quasimodo, Lon Chaney, walk up, see them and walk up to them.
I enjoyed this movie and it is really one of the movies worth seeing. Not all old movies are boring. I'm rating it 4 out of 5 stars.
PS: The DVD I own has a dubbed german version of this movie that I will check out. I watched the first 15 minutes and it was really good. Didn't expect it to be any good.
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