A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
Emil Jannings
Harun al Raschid
Conrad Veidt
Ivan the Terrible
William Dieterle
The Poet / Assad the Baker / Russian Prince
Werner Krauß
Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
Olga Belajeff
Eva-Maimune-Eine Bojarin
John Gottowt
Owner of the Waxworks
Georg John
Owner of the Panoptikums
Ernst Legal
Poison-Maker of the Czar
Paul Biensfeldt
Grand Vizier
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
There is more than a little of the "Dr. Caligari" (1921) to this compendium of three stories. Visually very similar in style, with angular - seemingly disjointed and out of scale sets and wonderfully targeted use of lighting serves to augment these episodes. A waxworks provides that environment where William Dieterle works, charged with writing some texts to accompany the effigies of three historical figures. The first is a fun "Arabian Nights" tale with Emil Jannings as "Harun", the second sees Conrad Veitd portray the Russian Czar Ivan IV (the terrible), finally he embarks on a tale of "Jack the Ripper" - supplied by Werner Krauss. As he writes, he imagines that he - and the owner's daughter - Olga Beljeff - are actually part of his series. All three present them with comical and perilous escapades, the first sees Jannings unceremoniously stuffed into a baker's oven, having fallen in love with the wife of the baker; the second depicts Ivan as a megalomanic reduced to simpering dolt and the final story is left hanging intriguingly as the would be author finally succumbs to sleep. For what it's worth, my favourite is the second story - but the third one is probably the more accomplished piece of cinema. The techniques of overlaying the film to give us an haunting feeling as "Jack" stalks his victims is really quite effective - if all too brief. As three short stories, this works well and though I am certainly no expert on German cinema, this has to be one of the more enjoyable - with engaging characters and plots - "expressionism" efforts I have yet encountered.
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แฟนเรื่องสยองขวัญตัวยงอย่างอเล็กซ์ต้องเป็นฝ่ายเล่าเรื่องกระตุกขวัญทุกคืน ไม่เช่นนั้นเขากับเพื่อนใหม่จะต้องติดอยู่ในอพาร์ตเมนต์อาถรรพ์ของแม่มดผู้ชั่วร้ายไปตลอดกาล
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โธมัส ฮัทเทอร์ นายหน้าอสังหาริมทรัพย์ที่เดินทางไปทรานซิลเวเนีย เพื่อทำสัญญาซื้อขายบ้านกับเคานต์ออร์ล็อก ผู้เป็นผีดูดเลือด หลังจากเคานต์ออร์ล็อกย้ายมายังเมืองวิสบอร์ก โรคระบาดก็แพร่กระจายไปทั่ว โธมัสและภรรยาของเขา เอลเลน ต้องหาวิธีหยุดยั้งปีศาจร้ายตัวนี้ก่อนที่ทั้งเมืองจะล่มสลาย