Midnight Faces (1926)

Directed by

Bennett Cohen

Genre

silent film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

55 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people gather in a spooky old house where a series of mysterious events happen. The film follows their attempts to uncover a hidden secret or perpetrator.

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What happens

Midnight Faces (1926) is a silent film starring Francis X. Bushman, Jr. and Jack Perrin. The film is an 'old dark house' murder mystery in the same genre as One Exciting Night (1922), The Ghost Breaker (1922), The Bat (1926) and The Cat and the Canary (1927). Critic Christopher Workman called it "a thoroughly unmemorable entry in the run of old dark house horror comedies" handled with an "absence of style, atmosphere and wit ... Even at less than an hour, the film drags interminably." Conversely, Jonathan Rigby, in his book American Gothic, noted that the film "works some interesting variations on the standard clichés" and that "as rip-offs go, Midnight Faces is unusually engaging and intelligent." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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