THE ARRIVAL FROM THE DARKNESS  (1921):

Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of the Black Tower and he falls asleep. He goes into the tower and finds an alchemist's laboratory and the body of a man holding instructions describing how he can be revived. Drazicky successfully carries out the experiment and finds out that the man is his ancestor Jesek Drazicky, who lived during the time of Rudolf II. He had become the apprentice of the alchemist Borro who had entrusted him with the mystery of the elixir of life.

DVD-R has Czech intertitles and switchable English subtitles. Approx. 61 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!

HAXAN  (1922):

Based partly on the study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts.   The film was made as a documentary, but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror films.   With meticulous recreation of medieval scenes and the lengthy production period, the film was the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made, costing nearly two million Swedish krona.  Although it won acclaim in Denmark and Sweden, the film was banned in the United States and heavily censored in other countries for what were considered at that time graphic depictions of torture, nudity, and sexual perversion.  

DVD-R has Danish intertitles with hard-encoded English subtitles. Approx. 105 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!