Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man #3 - Retro 1920s Dark Knight in "Arkham After Midnight: Mark of the Mad Hatter"

Added: Aug 18, 2008

Duration: 10:0

"Arkham After Midnight: Mark of the Mad Hatter" - Down the rabbithole goes Alice and her darkest, most depressing knight! A new/old retro 1920s silent serial... Based on characters and situations by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson for DC Comics at some point or another. I'm still having fun with this found footage-soaked, uncommercial concept strictly for educational and sporadically recreational purposes... so time to slice and dice more material in service of a strange story arc of sorts... grown fresh from our beloved Terminal Pictures garden, here then is the first slice: wherein we get big globs of setup concerning Arkham Asylum... madness! surreal delirium! Hallucinations! Screaming lunatics! Obsessive supervillains! That amazing triumph of conceit over technology, the incredible "Bat-Gyro." CAUTION: Slow down your internal clock and ingest whatever diet supplements and substances required by State and Federal authorities before viewing. "Scare-Crow Drugged Gas" is not suitable for any sort of children, particularly easily impressionable ones. Written & edited by Andre Perkowski. Music by Kristin Palker and Andre Perkowski. SOURCES: The Penalty (1920) The Blackbird (1926) Nosferatu (1920) The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920) The Golem (1920) Batman and Robin (1949 serial - having milked The Bat, I'm forced to scavenge, degrade, and repurpose - De-Robin-ing along the way.) Haxan (1922) Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913) Juve contre Fantômas (1913) Waxworks (1924) Destiny (1922) Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Alice in Wonderland (1903) L'Inferno (1911) Hans Richter 20s films assorted 20s newsreels Coming Soon... you know you want it. Chapter Two: "Riddle Me Deadly." Bats gassed and interacting in smoky haze with his own demons - not to mention his demons incarnate: The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Solomon Grundy, Killer Croc, and Maxie Zeus - leading to all-out catastrophe and mayhem at the asylum. As per usual, folks. Chapter Three: "Curse of The Clay-Face." The epic and remarkably upsetting conclusion will mostly center around "The Clay-Face," a transformation flashback, and the devious Human Penguin wrapping up the story arc in a fine, furious fashion. Big thanks to Marv Wolfman for being encouraging about the first short and mentioning that its a shame you couldn't tell a story with this method... which the next morning I took as a challenge and got to work. Take that, Syd Field! Catch up to all the scratchy handcranked action with the original collage short, "Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man" - young Bruce Wayne suffers in the crucible of his parents' murder and pledges to mop up the streets one weirdo at a time. PART ONE: http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_bjAhynSrY PART TWO: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ByTfwmyHr3Q ( Fine Rogue's Gallery tableaux with the original Man Who Laughs... Conrad Veidt as one of the Joker's models) 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-midnight.html

Channel: Film

Tags: 1920s arkham asylum batman dark experimental footage found hatter joker knight mad retro silent

Rating: 4.83 (30 ratings) Views: 15168' favoriteCount='107 Comments: 16

speedsurfer123 Says:

Aug 18, 2008 - 6:15-6:28 ROTFLMAO. He decided to modify his cape after that, THANK GOD.XD

vjk1980 Says:

Aug 18, 2008 - loving it. want more.

amoebaboy Says:

Aug 19, 2008 - fantastic work ! atmospheric and nightmarish.

syokley20022 Says:

Aug 23, 2008 - Some of the Batman clips were off of THE COMPLETE 1949 MOVIE SERIAL.

terminalpictures Says:

Aug 23, 2008 - Which you can clearly see on the text on the right. Sigh.

DKbw89 Says:

Aug 23, 2008 - Genius and creative concept, and very well executed as well. The look of silent films with the overwhelming shadows and smothering static always did strike me as bordering on the nightmarish. Therefore, great atmosphere.

KrM4523 Says:

Sep 5, 2008 - scray

mattressfactorygirl Says:

Sep 8, 2008 - I think I like this one better than part one. Any excuse for newsreel halucinations is a good one. ;)

laura000077 Says:

Sep 18, 2008 - exelent!

madlove1927 Says:

Sep 18, 2008 - I'm just amazed that someone else out there makes a connection like this. I've often thought of what "The Bat-Man" would be like seen through directors like Murnau or Pabst. Even the titles are true to the period. Wonderful!!

Welcome2MyHell6 Says:

Sep 22, 2008 - am i the only one frecked out by this video?

spyhunter178 Says:

Sep 25, 2008 - I have to know where that freaky ScareCrow silhouette is from! It's so damn freaky!

nightowl685 Says:

Sep 28, 2008 - 8:07 what is that from? it looks soooo creepy!

GodOfPlague Says:

Nov 9, 2008 - I like this a lot I really do. I'm not sure aout the dialogue though. ven y Bo Kane and Bill Finger standards it's unnatural. Maybe it's more of a silent movie less of a comic thing. Anyway fun concept wish I would have thought of it :)

BetaFett Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - Great work from this Guy again. Dark, Gothic, unsettling... Bit more left-field humour with this one tho, with the flying-machine guys, and the 'Father, So DEAD' intertitle. Still, his first Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man short inspired me to find a copy of the Man Who Laughs (The 1928 Conrad Viedt silent movie, not the Ed Brubaker Graphic novel, Bat-fans) which is a great movie that I'd recommend to anyone. I'd still love to see this Guy do a Gotham By Gaslight Fan-Flick... ;)

BIGBOIMIKE89 Says:

Dec 1, 2008 - this was pure genius!!! It was stunning, beautiful, chaotic, scary and frightful. Amazing! It was so creepy and weird. Just incredible. VERY GOOD JOB!!