Monster of the Day #3277

Updated on October 7, 2021 By Ken Begg 5 Comments

Another film that’s only marginally horror but still a good Halloween pick is 1926’s Faust. Obviously it’s more of a morality tale than a horror film, but the imagery of the Devil is fantastic and very influential. There’s a shot of a gigantic Satan looming over a town that clearly influenced the Night on Bald Mountain sequence in Fantasia.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    My first thought is that the Devil has a couple of extra fingers, but then I guess it’s the handle on the mirror.

  • Gamera977

    I’ve only seen the version with Richard Burton, and it’s something else…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I know the basic story, but I’m mainly familiar with the Berlioz opera.

  • The Devil’s motto is if at Faust you don’t succeed, try, try again.

  • Eric Hinkle

    It’s weird how popular the Faust story was. My local library has a collection of Pennsylvania Dutch folklore that was published back in 1944, and it had several versions of the story set in the Dutch country.