Review of The Phantom Carriage (1958) by Janina K — 03 Nov 2007

I am so bad with watching silent films but this one just absorbs you to it's horror-romantic world.

This review of The Phantom Carriage (1958) was written by Janina K on 03 Nov 2007.

The Phantom Carriage has generally received positive reviews.

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By Matthew C (1,721) on 30 Sep 2011

Kind of like A Christmas Carol, if Scrooge were Hitler. I don't care if the lead character has learned his lesson…

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The double-exposure photography used throughout is a stupefying achievement of its own, an incantation of overlapping worlds and a visualization…

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By Ryan V (1,568) on 31 Oct 2014

When a man is slain at midnight on new year's eve, he is doomed to drive Death's carriage for the next year…

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By Geoffrey O'brien (32) for The New York Review of Books (223) on 12 Nov 2018

Whatever the suggestiveness of the fable, the film works on us with the bare palpability of its elements-even of its visual tricks…

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By Charles P (1,784) on 13 Aug 2015

3: This is definitely the first Swedish film from 1920 that I've seen on Blu-Ray. It is in very good shape…

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By Joe M (1,521) on 28 Dec 2015

Too drab, long and preachy which, when added to it being a silent film, meant I wound up fast forwarding through most of it. Has to be your taste…

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By Edith N (976) on 19 Apr 2013

Alongside Nosferatu (1922), Haxan (1922), The Phantom of the Opera (starring Lon Chaney) (1925) and The Cabinet of Dr…

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By Lanky Man P (744) on 30 Mar 2012

Based on Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! by Selma Lagerlof, The Phantom Carriage is one of the masterworks of Swedish Cinema…

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By Ryan M (2,675) on 08 Oct 2012

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Review of The Phantom Carriage (1958) by Janina K — 03 Nov 2007

More Reviews of The Phantom Carriage

Kind of like A Christmas Carol, if Scrooge were Hitler. I don't care if the lead character has learned his lesson…

Thanks to emotional intensity, authentic story and absolutely astonishing special effects, The Phantom Carriage manages to feel otherworldly,…

The double-exposure photography used throughout is a stupefying achievement of its own, an incantation of overlapping worlds and a visualization…

When a man is slain at midnight on new year's eve, he is doomed to drive Death's carriage for the next year…

Whatever the suggestiveness of the fable, the film works on us with the bare palpability of its elements-even of its visual tricks…

3: This is definitely the first Swedish film from 1920 that I've seen on Blu-Ray. It is in very good shape…

Too drab, long and preachy which, when added to it being a silent film, meant I wound up fast forwarding through most of it. Has to be your taste…

Alongside Nosferatu (1922), Haxan (1922), The Phantom of the Opera (starring Lon Chaney) (1925) and The Cabinet of Dr…

Based on Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! by Selma Lagerlof, The Phantom Carriage is one of the masterworks of Swedish Cinema…

Beautiful and spooky, it's like a swedish variation on dickens' 'christmas carol' with a quite sophisticated flashback structure and up to…

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This film is fantastic. I saw it by accident and was hooked. A truly gripping drama that is worth a watch, even if you are disturbed by it…

I am so bad with watching silent films but this one just absorbs you to it's horror-romantic world…

I am so bad with watching silent films but this one just absorbs you to it's horror-romantic world…

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