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Classic Movie Blog Assn.
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We are the CMBA, a group of classic film loving bloggers.
visit us at https://clamba.blogspot.com/
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All week, CMBA writers posted about Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror, but they write great stuff about classic film all the time.
Discover and support them by visiting
clamba.blogspot.com
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Classic Movie Blog Association’s profile
Classic Movie Blog Association uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 8 films watched. Favorites: The Unknown (1927), The Old Dark House (1932), Employees' Entrance (1933), Murders in the Zo...
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All week, CMBA writers posted about Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror, but they write great stuff about classic film all the time.
Discover and support them by visiting
clamba.blogspot.com
letterboxd.com/clmba/
Classic Movie Blog Association’s profile
Classic Movie Blog Association uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 8 films watched. Favorites: The Unknown (1927), The Old Dark House (1932), Employees' Entrance (1933), Murders in the Zo...
letterboxd.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
classicmovieblog.bsky.social
Watching Forever delves into dark obsession and haunting silent menace in The Unknown for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon @watchingforever.bsky.social

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A twisted soul of pure evil shows itself in ‘The Unknown’
Not all monsters look like one. Nor are they all made in a laboratory, mutated from radiation or unleashed from hell. Evil can be human. And that’s the worst type of monster, isn’t it? We are born …
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November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Taking UP Room explores psychological horror and body angst in The Hands of Orlac for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon
takinguproom.com/2025/11/14/t...
The Hands of Suggestion
We’re here… The idea of reconstructing the human body has intrigued the scientific community for over a century now, and we all know that it can be done with varying degrees of success.…
takinguproom.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
classicmovieblog.bsky.social
All week, CMBA writers posted about Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror, but they write great stuff about classic film all the time.
Discover and support them by visiting
clamba.blogspot.com
letterboxd.com/clmba/
Classic Movie Blog Association’s profile
Classic Movie Blog Association uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 8 films watched. Favorites: The Unknown (1927), The Old Dark House (1932), Employees' Entrance (1933), Murders in the Zo...
letterboxd.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
classicmovieblog.bsky.social
The Last Drive In examines Otherness: Flesh, Science and the Grotesque in
Island of Lost Souls (1932 )

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon
@thelastdrivein.bsky.social
thelastdrivein.com/2025/11/14/w...
Whips, Shadows, and the Law: The Savage Eden of Island of Lost Souls 1932
There’s a particular thrill in stepping into the cinematic corridors of Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon, a gathering devoted to the films that haunt the margins of film history, but h…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Shadowplay brings us a look at
Drums O' Voodoo AKA Louisiana,(1934),
for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon
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Voodoo You
DRUMS O’ VOODOO (1934), AKA LOUISIANA, is claimed to be the first all-black horror movie. I’m not sure if it can be called a horror movie, but it did give me the creeps a little at the …
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Make Mine Film Noir steps into the shadows of Weimar Berlin with M (1931), a chilling proto-noir for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon

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M (1931)
Blog about film noir, neo-noir, noir literature, movies, film.
makeminefilmnoir.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Silver Screen Modes dives into the artistry and impact of Phantom of the Opera (1925), the film that launched Universal’s monster movie tradition, for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon

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LON CHANEY'S PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 1925 – Silver Screen Modes by Christian Esquevin
The Phantom of the Opera 1925, Lon Chaney, Universal monster movies, Mary Philbin, Carl Laemmle, Gaston Leroux
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November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Splendid review!
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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reminder that you can follow CMBA on Letterboxd,
where you can also find the latest blogathon entries, updated all week
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Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror
Classic Movie Blog Association's fall blogathon is Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Movies with horror themes, from early silent cinema through the pre-Code era up to 1934. Themes of societal unease, t...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The Midnite Drive-In sees dead men walking in

White Zombie (1932)
for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon

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The First Zombie
This is my entry in the  Early Shadows and Pre-Code Horror Blogathon  hosted by the  Classic Movie Blog Association .       The zombie fil...
midnitedrive-in.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I Found it at the Movies finds themselves in

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon

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My Review of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ (1932)
This movie starts with a picture of a door. It’s a massive door with a massive doorknocker. A hand reaches in … knock, knock, knock … this happens a few times, while the opening credits roll. Injec…
debbimacktoo.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Hamlette's Soliloquy looks at
The Invisible Man (1933)

(see what we did there?)

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
hamlette.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
"The Invisible Man" (1933) -- Initial Thoughts
Thoughts about movies, writing, and life from a Christian writer, wife, and mother.
hamlette.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Join me at the Shadows and Satin blog for Thankful Thursday on Day 13 of #Noirvember. Today, I'm thankful for those films that are undeniably noir! tinyurl.com/3pc5xvkp
a black and white photo of a man driving a car with a woman sleeping in the back seat .
ALT: a black and white photo of a man driving a car with a woman sleeping in the back seat .
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November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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reminder that you can follow CMBA on Letterboxd,
where you can also find the latest blogathon entries, updated all week
letterboxd.com/clmba/list/e...
Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror
Classic Movie Blog Association's fall blogathon is Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Movies with horror themes, from early silent cinema through the pre-Code era up to 1934. Themes of societal unease, t...
letterboxd.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
classicmovieblog.bsky.social
The Midnite Drive-In sees dead men walking in

White Zombie (1932)
for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon

midnitedrive-in.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The First Zombie
This is my entry in the  Early Shadows and Pre-Code Horror Blogathon  hosted by the  Classic Movie Blog Association .       The zombie fil...
midnitedrive-in.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
classicmovieblog.bsky.social
I Found it at the Movies finds themselves in

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon

debbimacktoo.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/m...
My Review of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ (1932)
This movie starts with a picture of a door. It’s a massive door with a massive doorknocker. A hand reaches in … knock, knock, knock … this happens a few times, while the opening credits roll. Injec…
debbimacktoo.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
classicmovieblog.bsky.social
Hamlette's Soliloquy looks at
The Invisible Man (1933)

(see what we did there?)

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
hamlette.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
"The Invisible Man" (1933) -- Initial Thoughts
Thoughts about movies, writing, and life from a Christian writer, wife, and mother.
hamlette.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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... in to an ensemble as commanding a spotlight.

You can celebrate his life and work on the Criterion Channel with a collection featuring some of his most remarkable performances in films like HARAKIRI, THE FACE OF ANOTHER, HIGH AND LOW, WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS, and more!
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai - The Criterion Channel
www.criterionchannel.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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From The Classic Movie Muse - the haunting vulnerability beneath John Barrymore’s Svengali, more than a monster, a masterclass in complex villainy for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror

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More than a Monster: The Vulnerability of John Barrymore’s Svengali (1931) | The Classic Movie Muse
It was long ago when first I saw him. Dressed to the nines with a beautiful lady on his arm. He didn't say much, but he didn't have to. That was the power of his performance. It was in his body langua...
www.theclassicmoviemuse.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I loved writing about Hitchcock's first thriller, The Lodger (1927), for @classicmovieblog.bsky.social' Fall Blogathon!
Hope you'll have as much fun reading my article than I had writing it: thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...

Photo: Ivor Novello in the title role
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The Wonderful World of Cinema dives into Hitchcock’s chilling thriller The Lodger for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Blogathon ‪@wworldofcinema.bsky.social‬
thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...
The Master of Suspense’s First Thriller – ‘The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog’ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)
An exploration through Hitchcock’s first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Nitrate Glow explores the duality of

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
nitrateglow.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...
The Early Shadows and Pre-Code Horror Blogathon: The psychological horrors of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (dir. Rouben Mamoulian, 1931)
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” – The Gospel of Thomas Roube…
nitrateglow.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Everyday Cinephile descends into the circles of Hell with
Dante’s Inferno (1911)

for the CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
@silentshawn95.bsky.social

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Dante's Inferno (1911): The First Feature-Length Horror Film - The Everyday Cinephile
The first feature length horror film, Dante's Inferno over a 110 years later still has the power to frighten and terrify its audience.
theeverydaycinephile.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Explore the haunting origins of witchcraft cinema: read about classic "Häxan" and its legacy in horror at Critica Retro for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon @magalhaesleticia.bsky.social
criticaretro.blogspot.com/2025/11/haxa...
Häxan - A Feitiçaria Através dos Tempos (1922) / Häxan (1922)
criticaretro.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM