"Unheimliche Geschichten" (and I could list a dozen alternate titles here, in English and German) is a German black-and-white silent film that run slightly over 2 hours in the original, but slightly under 100 minutes in the DVD version. Actually, this is not really a movie, but rather a collection of 5 short stories told to each other by creepy horror creatures. Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel play all the major characters in here and, in my opinion, the only one who makes it somewhat worth watching is Veidt. He was still pretty young here just like the other two, so this was a bit of a film by the new generation of actors. But this Richard Oswald movie was never a rewarding watch. It was not emotional, not engaging, not dramatically relevant and certainly not scary. There are many better German silent horrors from around that time. I do not recommend watching this one. Thumbs down, it dragged on several occasions. And the intertitles as poems were simply bad. They should have been normal text and a lot more frequent.
Review of Eerie Tales
