Cinema Will Forever Be Haunted by the Iconic Horror Movie No One Alive Has Seen
Tod Browning's London After Midnight is an iconic lost horror movie with a legendary dual performance from Lon Chaney.
The macabre imagination that director Tod Browning put into his horror classics of the 1930s is why he was known as “the Edgar Allan Poe of Cinema.” A suave vampire prepares to take a deadly visit to England in Dracula, and carnival sideshow performers seek revenge on deceitful outsiders in Freaks. Browning is known for these seminal horror movies, but did you know he made one of the most famous lost horror films of all time? The 1927 supernatural mystery London After Midnight was part of an extensive collaboration between Tod Browning and actor Lon Chaney, whose physical transformations had him known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces.” Considered a highly sought-after “lost film” of the silent era, no one alive today has seen it. But that hasn't stopped London After Midnight from taking a legendary status and continuing to be influential, even becoming the reason why a modern horror monster exists.
