Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man #4 - Retro 1920s Dark Knight "Arkham After Midnight: Riddle Me Deadly"

"Arkham After Midnight 2: Riddle Me Deadly" -- "The Bat-Man" gassed at infamous Arkham Asylum! Drugged! Disoriented! A blurred reality. Now as "mad" as all at Arkham due to queer & curious chemicals of "Scare-Crow." Stuck in a musty old madhouse - meeting his most awful adversaries! Faces stained with suspicions... the deranged royalty of crime and its unsettling clown prince!

A new/old 1920s silent serial using many of Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson's original influences smothered in a sickly sweet German Expressionist sauce with extra shadows on the side.

Tune in next weekend for the shattering conclusion!

Written & edited by Andre Perkowski. Music by Kristin Palker and Andre Perkowski.


SOURCES:
Schatten Eine Naechtliche Halluzination (1923)
Sunrise(1927)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Batman and Robin (1949 serial)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler (1922)
Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1920)
Haxan (1922)
Waxworks (1924)
Destiny (1922)
Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913)
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Fantômas - Le Faux Magistrat (1914)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
L'Inferno (1911)
Hans Richter 20s films
assorted 20s newsreels

[B&w collage video, 9m34s. Bonus typo for collectibility purposes.]

... catch up with the last few week's worth of silent slice and dice, from the unholy origin to the gates of Arkham:

"Silent Shadow of The Bat-Man"

PART ONE: Origin Story
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_bjAhynSrY

PART TWO: Rogue's Gallery
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ByTfwmyHr3Q

"Arkham After Midnight"
Chapter One: "Mark of the Mad Hatter."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4XqYT1-JU

Down the rabbithole goes Alice and her darkest, most depressing knight! Surreal
delirium! Hallucinations! Screaming lunatics! Obsessive supervillains! That amazing triumph of conceit over technology, the incredible "Bat-Gyro." All this and the sickest final two minutes you ever needed to see as Bats struggles to cope with it all.

Not for sale or commercial insinuation - "Bat-Man" and associated characters created by Bob Kane / Bill Finger / Jerry Robinson. So there.

What? You want MORE? Grant Morrison expert and astute comic pundit Timothy Callahan just put up an endless interview with some jerk about the cobbling together of these forbidden experiments in animating the flesh of the silent dead:

http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com/2008/08/1920s-batman-arkham-after-midn...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• experimental
• Batman
• Dark
• Knight
• Joker
• Riddler
• Penguin
• Twoface
• Arkham
• Asylum
• 1920s
• silent
• retro

[terminalpictures]

Reload it, it works fine. As for the finale... eh, one day.

[eieiowens]

You meant to cite Murnau's 'Sunrise', you wrote 'Sunset' instead LOL!

[terminalpictures]

Isn't that hilarious! Oh, my aching sides.

[libidowolf]

amaizing... where is tim burton now, this is really gotham gothic city

[johnnylaws]

simply brilliant. my hat is off to you...

[Gaming4Jesus]

Very original! I'm impressed! :D

[veganisextremelygood]

MR FREEZE IS THE BEST!

[TheEmuTyrant]

I love the old fire helmet/mask used for Mr Freeze.

[altobiotero]

Awesome vid... really well done with a lot of classics... Thanx for fine Art...

[gentlerat]

Awesome series, really connects Batman and his adversaries with their roots. I miss the costume of part 1, but hey, he's got more outfits than just one, I'm willing to admit that.

[RustyKoi]

Wasn't this described as a Five parter? I was really into this! How disappointing that the finale is missing!

Also, this one keeps freezing at 6:11 for me... Can't even skip ahead! :(

[jeepee1981]

cool great photo

[Maksapihvi]

Great version of a classic Batman story.

[HipandTrippy]

Interesting mix of scenes... Fantomas is in there even.