Top 10 Lost Horror Films

since this video was released did any of the tapes turn up james? ..... were is the new kong!

horror films r the best.

Actually The Golem (1920) isn't lost here's a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zq704i_d0

hey have you seen an old show from 1997 called Nightmare Ned??This Show IS cancelled but several episodes can be found on youtube.

this show came from a very good pc game called.....um...Nightmare Ned witch ONLY works with windows 98 but with vista there's a compatibility list you can change the compatibility to 98

What is the backround music rundown

London after midnight is one of the horror films that's not lost some guy said that he saw the movie with his own eyes not the picture one the actual movie i'm not kidding guess a copy was made secretly before the fire in the MGM vault.

there's clips from witchcraft throughout the ages in 1934's maniac. I hope they find the wereolf- i want to see a silent werewolf movie.

Hey James get in contact with Gene Simmons according to his biography his actions and his stage character "The Demon" of KISS is based off his favorite movie "London After Midnight", supposedly he has a copy of this film check with him if you can.
PS on his solo album the song "Man of 1000 faces" is his tribute to his favorite actor and personal hero Lon Chaney.

HAXAN! HELL YEAH!

@Chadwick He never said Caligari was lost

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is on Netflix, DVD and Streaming

I can't help but wonder if any are about Lord Ruthven or other Vampires of 18th and 19th Century literature that predate even Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Carmilla is the only Pre-Dracula Vampire to get any attention in the post Lugosi world, and even she hasn't truly been done justice yet. I consider that quite a shame.

I don't know if you're aware of this James, but speaking of lost scenes. I've read on a British Horror Forum not too long ago that some guy claimed to have found missing footage of Dracula's demise from Horror of Dracula (1958) at an archive somewhere in Japan. I'm referring to the missing shots of Lee's Dracula clawing his face his he lays dying. I was able to find two photographs online that is evident of the footage's existence including the well-known color shot that is also seen in the Dracula book from Crestwood and a Japanese photo taken from a Hammer Horror historian.

This does confirm rumors that Hammer Films during their rise in the late-50s would release 'continental' versions of their early horror classic including The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy for the Asian market. Hopefully one day, we should be able to see the missing footage restored back into the movie for a future Blu-Ray release. It would also be nice if they would also integrate the found footage into the pre-title flashback sequence from the sequel Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966).

If you want more information and pictures, here's the link:
http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic...

nice, a swedish movie haha I was like YES

Lol you showed the human centipede on the intro..You should totally do a review on that movie I'm very curious.

i know how u feel even though this might not be the right time to say this
a shit load of classic 30's and 40's doctor who episodes are lost which sucks since some of them are priceless classics

It was also used on another site. JUST FOR ONCE
And the site had a Forum about where they get media...

Haha unbelievable how did you manage to find it?! Alot of props man this made my week if not month. :)

FOUND IT!

http://www.extrememusic.com/#album/1750

BIBLE CLASH

Is it me or is the intro song replaced in this version of video?
In the spike I hear the same thing, but in this video: only some background screaming >>

Keeping on searching

@Vazix
Yea it's really frustrating I've been trying to find this song aswell since the release of this review! The opening is just like Bachs Toccata and Fugue In D Minor but rest that follows is nothing like it. Been sitting and listening through alot of different versions of that song always hoping I found it but to this very day no dice! "Hopefully one day som more info may turn up"

About three years earlier I herd this intro song here:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-league-of...
It haunts me till today, cause can't find it.
I want to hear it before it is lost lke these movies...

very interesting video! it would be cool if you'd make more of these

Out of curiosity, why is the volume always low?

Nice list!

I read in the Washington Post a month or so ago that a number of previously lost movies were found well preserved in Russia. They were making copies to send to the US. I hope some of these movies were found!

James! Is there any chance that the last movie you mention could be a movie adaptation of The Journey to the West? The 16th century Chinese novel has been recreated hundreds of times on all sorts of media from stage plays to film. Some versions (like the Dragonball comics) have the main character (who is usually a monkey like in the original) grow into a giant ape. Those pictures in your video made me think of that story. I would guess that the Japanese could have easily adapted this story to film rather than Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Lost World, which the original King Kong was based on. It would just make more sense in that time in history.

At 4:29 the name on the higest movie, is danish. Just as and remember.

what are the names of the movies used as clips in the beginning

Hi cool top ten.Im from hungary it was nice to see a hungarian movie.
I red about the movie here som info about the movie if you dont know:
It was made in Corvin movie facrory,
Director: Lajthay Károly
Script:Lajthay Károly (B.Stoker: Drakula és Pánczél Lajos Drakula halála c. regénye nyomán), Kertész Mihály [Michael Curtiz]
Premier:1921.február, Bécs (Wien)
It dissapeard in the second world war.
Info from: http://www.freeweb.hu/mrger/Filmes/Silent_Horror/D...

also internet says that from the hungarian dracula was made becouse the destroying of the copys of the rusian 1920 version in the rusian civil war, but i cant ashure anything, but it sound like a good reason, other lost films are lost becouse of wars :/

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Pel%C3%ADculas_... this mentions the rusian version, give it a look

''What's is the one lost movie shown in the beginning that had those humanoid pigs?''

Actually, that movie isn't lost.
It's a swedish movie (yay) from 1922, known as ''Häxan'' or for you americans ''Häxan: Witchcraft through the ages''.

I hope time travel is found, i would be the first to get a copy of each of these movies.

What is the one lost movie shown in the beginning that had those humanoid pigs?

what is the name of the song in the start an in the ends of the video ??

Good job man, i just love silent movies !!

Well, here's hoping for London After Midnight.
I thought I saw that film before somewhere, with those fancy-ass teeth.

just wanted to comment that although all the modern vampire movies are all based in the Bram Stoker's Dracula character (and other relative modern stories) centuries ago the vampire was a more general term for an undead or immortal mythological character who may or may not wish to kill or feed on the life of humans.
So my thought is that there may have been some early vampire films that didn't include blood sucking, bats or other familiar Dracula elements.
If that's the case it would be really interesting to see one of those stories / films.

I own Mole people which is a rare film in region 1

Wow I had no idea! Ever since I have been coming to this site I have learned so much about horror movie history. Its like comin to film class everyday! I feel very informed every time I watch these vids. Im staring to appreciate these films more,and now I look at them from such a different perspective. I really admire what your doing here. Not just makin vids to entertain,but to really school people on true classics. Thanks James

Very, very interesting top ten list James. When you said lost, I thought you might have been talking about movies that weren't very well known. But no, these are movies some of us may never see! Truly "lost". Just... wow.

And, it is very unfortunate. Also very shocking that there Japanese King Kong movies made, possible even before Godzilla! How did you find this out? When did this info come to light? VERY interesting...

Theres always hope that someday some of these films might be found. Me being such a Lon Chaney fan would love to see London after Midnight. I've seen the still picture version of it on YouTube but without movement it's just not the same. Even the 1916 version of Phantom of the Opera would be interesting to see, I would love to see how the phantom's deformity is portrayed in that one.

I think "London After Midnight" would be the best.

well, damn, there were king kong films from japan, now we really know where the buzz about donkeykong came from, :P

@lfernando @muCkk yeah I don't think it's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Damn.. this is really bothering me that I can't figure out what it is and where it's from. Also the score later in the video is awfully familiar but can't name that either.