Certain old horror movies are so iconic, but countless others are great and have fallen out of the canon.

“Gruesome and at times shocking” as well as “anything but a pleasant story,” according to the 1927 New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, “The Unknown” stars Lon Chaney as Alonzo the Armless, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A ...

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary. We learn of his deaf mute ...

What is old is new again when it comes to silent films, now making a comeback in metropolitan areas such as New York City. “The Wall Street Journal” notes that venues such as Film Forum routinely ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster ...