The Unknown (1927) [Free To Watch]

May 3, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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Enter the dark and twisted world of The Unknown, a silent horror masterpiece from 1927. Directed by the legendary Tod Browning, this chilling tale follows Alonzo the Armless (Lon Chaney), a knife-thrower who uses his feet to perform his craft in a circus act. Obsessed with his beautiful assistant Nanon (Joan Crawford), Alonzo harbors a deadly secret and will go to horrifying lengths to win her love.

A gripping exploration of obsession, deception, and the human condition, The Unknown showcases Lon Chaney’s unparalleled ability to transform into complex and haunting characters. With its macabre themes and groundbreaking performances, this film remains a landmark in silent cinema.

Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic : Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers Available October 17

October 15, 2023 4 Evil Eyes

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The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.

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Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic : Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers Available October 17

July 25, 2023 4 Evil Eyes

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STARRING: Various