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watch it: “Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man #3 - Retro 1920s Dark Knight in ‘Arkham After Midnight’ Chapter One: ‘Mark of The Mad Hatter’”
FlickFilosopher.com —
Creator Andre Perkowski says this “new/old retro 1920s silent serial” is “The Darkest, Most Depressing Knight!”: The coolest thing about this is that it’s assembled from found footage. Perkowski says his sources include: The Penalty (1920) The Blackbird (1926) Nosferatu (1920) The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920) The Golem (1920) Batman and Robin (1949 serial) Haxan (1922) Destiny (1922) Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913) Juve contre Fantômas (1913) Waxworks (1924) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Alice in Wonderland (1903) L'Inferno (1911) Hans Richter 20s films assorted 20s newsreels Very cool! (Technorati tags: Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man, Batman, Dark ...
1920s Batman Returns in "Mark of the Mad Hatter"
Topless Robot —
The good news: the guy doing the silent film version of Batman let himself use some of the 1940s Batman serial, so Batman looks like Batman, and not that weird version from that old The Bat German movie. The bad news: Although this is called "Mark of the Mad Hatter," the Hatter really just sits in his cell. I don't think he does anything. And the ugly: since the story takes place in Arkham Asylum and Batman gets gassed with Scarecrow's fear gas, it's really just an excuse to put together a plethora of sanitarium clips and the most fucked-up, disturbing silent film footage the director could ...
