I don´t know how I missed this one all these years. This 1932 German horror masterpiece is a classic everyone who is in love with the genre should see. The movie evolves around a drifter who is obsessed with paranormal and supernatural who stumbles upon a lonely inn house and weird things start to happen right there.

Carl Theodor Dreyer and co-wrote this movie based on a book by legendary Sheridan  Le Fanu. The movie is heavy with atmosphere of unknown and carrying some ominous and heavy vibe in itself, with our main protagonist wandering around hearing weird sounds at night in the house, meeting all kind of weird persona and the fog and swampy area in which the movie is situated are so gloomy and bleak that they add to the heaviness of the movie. The actors are superb, especially Julian West  as the main protagonist and Maurice Schutz as the Lord of the Manor., mainly acting with their face expressions and sometimes you can see pure horror on their faces. Murnau´s Nosferatu is untouchable classic per se, but this one is better in my opinion, although done ten years later than the said movie. The story is full, no fillers there and the ending of the movie is kinda dreamy and poetic adding to the impact this one had one me and left me in awe and thinking about it later, which is not often case with modern horror movies. There are no blood gore baths in this one, there are no spectacular murders, but if you love your horror atmospheric, slow and creepy this one is a classic every collection which respects itself must posses!