Hand-Picked Alternatives for Fans of El hombre bestia: Cult Guide

Dir: Charles Raymond

A magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.

Dir: Victor Sjöström

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Phantom Carriage perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

Dir: John Cosgrove

The Films centers around a family who is plagued by a mysterious pultergeist. Basesd on true events

Dir: Urban Gad

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Guyra Ghost Mystery perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.

Dir: André Deed

The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.

Dir: Fritz Lang

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Island of the Lost perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Dir: Károly Lajthay

A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.

Dir: Ernest C. Warde

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Mechanical Man perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

When young writer Brandon McShane is left penniless by the death of his father, he is forced to rent a room in the tenement district from the Mahon family. Brandon soon becomes infatuated with the fortune hunting Mimi Gascoigne, who casts him aside for a wealthy suitor. In search of revenge, Brandon acquires a magic skin which will gratify its owner's wishes, but which exacts years from the petitioner's life in payment. Brandon wishes himself wealth and his enemies unhappiness, and then lives in terror of the penalty he must pay. One day he meets Pauline Mahon who has loved him since his tenement days. Pauline convinces Brandon to wish the skin out of his life, and then he discovers that Pauline's love is the fulfillment of this last wish.

Dir: Jacob Fleck

Depicts a society lady trapped under the spell of an unskilled hypnotist.

Dir: Maurice Elvey

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.