The Beetle (1919)
- Directed by
- Alexander Butler
- Genre
- fantasy film, horror film, silent film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 02m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A mysterious being from ancient Egypt takes over the body of a modern woman. A group of people in London try to stop this supernatural creature.
silentcreepymysteriousatmosphericdatedmelodramaticstrange
What happens
The Beetle is a 1919 British silent horror film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Leal Douglas, Maudie Dunham, Hebden Foster and Fred Morgan. It was based on the 1897 novel The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh. The 1897 novel went into print a few months after Bram Stoker's Dracula hit bookshelves, and it outsold Dracula at the time. It has since passed into relative obscurity, although it seems to have served as Stoker's inspiration for his 1903 The Jewel of Seven Stars, which also involved an ancient Egyptian princess reincarnating into the body of a modern-day woman. Director Alexander Butler went on to an acting role in the similarly themed 1925 film She. Jonathan Rigby has called Leal Douglas’s High Priestess “the polymorphous title role”. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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