Halloween Silents by Roving Shows and Island Jazz

Presented byRoving Shows and Island Jazz.
With Live Improvised Musical Accompaniment by DotDotDash.
The Haunted House
Dir: Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline, USA, 1921, 21 min.
Buster Keaton plays a bank clerk who stumbles into a counterfeiters’ hideout disguised as a haunted mansion. “Stuffed to the gills with ghouls, devils and animated skeletons. Our casually elegant hero is a bank clerk who finds himself lured to a tricked-out house, haunted by Scooby-Doo-style fake spooks” - The British Film Institute
Followed by
The Bat
Dir: Roland West, USA, 1926, 86 min.
The Bat is a stylish mystery‑comedy hybrid with shadowy mansions, masked criminals, and atmospheric thrills. The title character was one of Bob Kane's inspirations for Batman! “The film is a visual feast, and it’s no wonder — the cinematographer was Arthur Edeson, who would go on to shoot Frankenstein, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca, and he was assisted by future Citizen Kane groundbreaker Gregg Toland.” - IndieWire

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 107 min