The Golem1915

Horror Vault's take

One of cinema's earliest monster legends, this largely lost 1915 silent film revisits the Jewish folklore of the Golem — a mighty clay figure breathed into life by mystical means. The story leaps between centuries, from 16th-century Prague where the creature was first conjured as a protector of the persecuted, to the modern day where it is unearthed and pressed into humble servitude. What begins as an curiosity in an antique dealer's hands slowly reveals the terrifying cost of awakening something that was never meant to be mastered by ordinary men. Tragedy and dread simmer beneath every frame of this pioneering work of German expressionist horror.

Content: Violence, Depictions Of Persecution