Film still from The Sorrows of Satan (D.W. Griffith, 1926), starring Adolphe Menjou, Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez and Lya de Putti The screenplay was based on the Victorian gothic novel by Marie Corelli (1895)
Watch the film on YouTube ~ link to this scene : here
Nevertheless, our favorite scene takes place a few minutes before during the night in Geoffrey’s ominous mansion. Geoffrey’s wife, an exotic Russian princess in exile (Lya de Putti) confess Prince Lucio that she married Geoffrey only to be near him (Satan). Geoffrey awakens and creeps down the stairs to find his wife throwing herself at Lucio’s feet. It’s a suspenseful sequence with shadowy shots of the mansion that looks menacing. Link to scene
Read the novel on Project Gutenberg : The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, A Romance : eBook
Cover design for Bela Lugosi’s Dead, the first single by the English post-punk band Bauhaus, released on 6 August 1979 It is often considered the first gothic rock record
Listen to «Bela Lugosi’s Dead» on Bauhaus Official YouTube channel
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