Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) [Silent Movie] [Horror]

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a 1920 horror silent film, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film is based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and starring actor John Barrymore. The film was directed by John S. Robertson and co-starred Nita Naldi. The scenario was by Clara Beranger.
This story of split personality, has Dr. Jekyll a kind and charitable man who believes that everyone has two sides, one good and one evil. Using a potion, his personalities are split, creating havoc.
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Directed by John S. Robertson, produced by Adolph Zukor, written by Thomas Russell Sullivan, Clara Beranger and Robert Louis Stevenson (novel), starring John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Charles Lane and Nita Naldi.
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Source: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 8 June 2012. Web. 29 July 2012. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_(1920_film).
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[@chrisevans5259]

These grainy old black and White horror movies have an authentic realism to them,....the atmospheric use of lighting give them an eerie dreamlike presence , that is both creepy and visually compelling........they are a delight, and wonderfully conceived......

[@MaliceInCandyland]

They're grainy on KZbin but the digital remasters are beautiful. The Old Dark House is even in 4K definition now.

[@SONJASAVEDBYGRACE]

Very well stated, I agree

[@john-paulderosa7217]

1935 Midsummer Night's Dream dream sequence is also eerie and wonderful.

[@WriterGirl01]

This is my favorite silent movie of all time. All the actors and actress did a amazing job. Thank god that we are still able to to see this classic gem.

[@BenEmberley]

John Barrymore, who plays Jekyll/Hyde is Drew Barrymore's Grandfather

[@tbalciunas333]

99 years later, and this movie is still horrifying, even by today's standards

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

And to think John Barrymore did the first transformation scene in one take with no makeup is incredible!

[@pumpuppthevolume]

100 years later now :P

[@freedomisntfree2089]

Happy 100th anniversary ! A true classic that will always be creepy as hell and stand the test of time.

[@Celluloidwatcher]

It's now a year later. Happy 101st anniversary!

[@marinaogn]

@@Celluloidwatcher Another year have passed! Happy 102nd anniversary!

[@DaleBaker-e3u]

This is a great film. I have never seen John Barrymore so youthful and handsome. A good job all round. Definitely a horror worth watching.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

What a pity that these actors and film makers would never have known that over a hundred years after being made, it would still be watched, and dare I say, enjoyed. It really was a horror film worthy of its name. Regards from "locked-down" England, February, 2021.

[@audreysmith4964]

My great great uncle played dr. Lanyon.

[@MarkRoss-er4yq]

Wow!! He did a great job 👌🏻 I wonder how he got along with Barrymore off camera.

[@KeithDec25]

A great actor at the height of his extraordinary powers

[@jameslyman5793]

Why couldn't anyone find Dr. Jekyll? Because he was Hyding.

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

DAD!!

[@lisashapiro7964]

He tortured many. Isn’t that right joelBmesh

[@sadiebown4016]

James Lyman I love this 😭

[@shadowtheshowman]

"If he shall be Mr. Hyde, then I shall be Mr. Seek!"

[@SanDhampir]

What a classic. Thank you so much for uploading this

[@lavampire100]

Nita Naldi would be a great actress in today's world. she was so freaking gorgeous.

[@Heyamoto]

I’m really amazed at this version. For a silent film, there was a lot of quick pacing which kept the story going.

[@theanonymy]

Goddammit, Barrymore was beautiful and a superb actor; the hamminess of his transformations are hysterical and leave me giddy. Such a shame that no one seemed to want to help him; just made him a laughingstock, much like Oliver Reed...

[@carlosestruga4322]

I read the Robert Louis Stevenson original novel short ago, everybody knows today that Jekill and Hyde are the same person, but i loved how in the novel is the ending surprise twist. I think it was a shock in the times before the movies

[@larsondarcy101]

Martha Mansfield the young actress who played Millicent was killed 3 years later at the tender age of 24 when a match was thrown on her civil war costume during the filming of another movie.

I know poor girl such a tragic fate.

[@HollywoodCharityAuctioncom]

OMG.

[@margafrantz4406]

I had no idea :(

[@brianvail1507]

The film was The Warrens of Virginia, and it's considered a lost movie now

[@Barnabas45]

Love these tid bits!

[@livvedae440]

I love how at 59:00 Mr. Hyde begins to beat Sir George mircilessly with his cane... to very delightful and uplifting flute music, of course. Fuckin gold... XD

[@hyliadreamer]

How charming that you can't spell "mercilessly".

[@IIImobiusIII]

When striking someone with a cane, use the Handel.

[@bluedragonfly5145]

@@IIImobiusIII do you have experience in beating people with canes buddy?

[@Cristiano48239]

@@IIImobiusIII Strick someone with the classical music composer.

[@henbane2247]

John Barrymore is dashing as Dr. Jekyll. Pre-NHS days for his clinic. Millicent's outfits are lovely.

[@hobbitgeek7588]

One of the best films ever made.

[@dkupke]

People must have been fainting in the theaers

[@WolfieMcMuffin]

Daniel Ryan I wanted badly to play Mr Hyde in a local production, but I was cast as Dr Jekyll instead, because I was told, "You couldn't scare a kitten!" Needless to say, I was not thrilled! Haha!

[@alex3078]

falling asleep can also be an another possibility though

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

@@alex3078 - Maybe in today's generation that is likely, but not back then. This stuff was all brand new to an audience and it felt more real to them then movies do to us today.

[@Barnabas45]

I don't understand what happened in the street with those kids and why he was offering the people money?

[@goldsrenee904]

@@Barnabas45 In the book Hyde tramples a little girl. The family is outraged by his demeanor and Hyde is forced to make a payment for her for the situation and medical she'll need.

[@seehroovnosaj959]

Just watched this for the first time. Pretty scary and creepy for a 100 year old silent film.

[@WolfieMcMuffin]

The thing about Dr Jekyll is that he is a hypocrite! He was never "good" to begin with! He was always bad, and created Hyde as means for him to commit evil in a different physical shape! Although he was physically Hyde, mentally he remained Jekyll, so he knew what he was doing all along. He turned into Hyde so he could commit evil and not worry about his reputation or profession as Jekyll!

[@plasticweapon]

that's right. and that's just what robert louis stevenson intended when he wrote the story.

[@WolfieMcMuffin]

plasticweapon One of the themes in the book is social hypocrisy. It's all right to commit acts of depravity and sin, as long as you don't get caught. That was one of the layers!

[@alex3078]

so you also watched the other movies of this story?

[@Trazmanjares]

well observed...it´s the first time i see someone sharing my thoughts,i have always imagined something was wrong with this "bad x good" theme,althought i have found many articles suggesting it was about homosexuality( Hyde is the homosexual expression of Dr.Jekyl) and not an internal struggle I read the book and the hypocrite thing is the one who fits the best,it´s even extended to nowadays.

[@WolfieMcMuffin]

The "Bad versus good" notion was put into place when the stage and film adaptions began to get made, to follow the Production Code that a story needed a hero to root for, and the villain needed to be punished. Back in those days, with their strict moral codes, who would want to see a show where there is no hero to save the day? It was also the stage adaption that created the now-common characters of the aristocratic fiancé of Jekyll, and the street wench for Hyde.

[@j.m.turner1756]

Although this is very good, I recommend making it truly silent by turning off the sound when you watch it. The music does not match what's happening on-screen at all.

[@CountStoczkowski]

Best silent horror ever, in my opinion. The 1st classic b&w horror dvd I ever bought. It came with Night of the Living Dead, Revolt of the Zombies (horrible movie) and Dementia 13. 2nd I ever bought also happens to be my 2nd favorite silent movie, Nosferatu. 3rd being Phantom of the Opera, which I picked up shortly after. Still on the lookout for Nosferatu special edition with Type O Negative musical score. I love watching Jekyll & Hyde with the score turned off and instead playing Nine Inch Nails the Downward Spiral as the soundtrack. It ends before the movie does but if you start the cd at just the right point, The Becoming plays when he becomes Hyde for the 1st time. 1st time I discovered it was by accident and was blown away by it playing at that precise moment. That went into my WIN column straight away and has remained ever since! Wooo!!! =D

[@qtandem]

John Barrymore is great and that spider scene is cool, but there are many other silent gothic horror films better than this one. The Unknown or Nosferatu, to put just a couple of examples.

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

I loved the organ score until the second half. Then it suddenly changes to bright baroque music and is very jarring, right when it should be darker and more intense when he kills his fiance's husband. I'll have to try mixing it with another score, I like your idea!

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

@@qtandem - To each his own, those films are great too, but remember this came out before almost any other horror classic, and influenced all the rest, along with Dr. Caligari, which came out only one month before.

[@ssandrragcanos]

Love that version.....it has style !!!

[@frankreasoning7993]

Over a hundred years ago and it still has a great aesthetic.

[@maxfarley2519]

Amazing how this was made a hundred years ago.

[@ContracterYin]

This is much, much different than the novella. It isn't bad, its an art form in its own way, but it really may as well be a different story. There are very few parallels beyond the basic plot line of Jekyll changing to Hyde.

[@kelamuni]

+ContracterYin It’s based on the stage play adaptation.

[@persiatuvim2860]

ContracterYin masterpiece of great art like GWTW, pix are garbage. now

[@snakes3425]

Given that the novella is more of a mystery story then what the movies and plays have been, the revelation of Jekyll and Hyde being the same person was suppose to be a twist ending. Most of the movies and plays skip over much of the book (which has Utterson believing that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll and intends to murder him once he approves the will Jekyll has written naming Hyde as his sole heir) and adapt the last two chapters in which Lanyon and Jekyll confess the truth. To be honest Jekyll, like Frankenstein, was a scientist done in by his own hubris, his experiment succeeded but he never thought of what could go wrong, Humanity can't exist without the light and dark side of its nature. The most frightening thing about Jekyll though is that he planned to have the drug mass produced and intended to use it on his patients if the test on himself was a success, the only thing that saved his patients from sharing his fate was the drug backfiring

[@2ndEndingVintage]

I see what you mean. NOT knowing that they were the same person, as in the Novella...was in fact much richer, narratively speaking.

[@tyrssen1]

A magnificent film. Thanks for posting!

[@mattpodjeski4194]

They couldn't have chosen better music for the scene at 59:00? haha

[@USMServers]

The músic is excellent

[@gabe_ed]

@@USMServers yeah, the music is excellent... by itself. But it really puts you off, like, the people who put the music here didn't watch the film at all. Certain scenes don't match, not even a bit, with the mood expressed by the music

[@crossetler_2184]

My guess is that the sound mixing - I'm not really sure, however - came from the fact that movies at that time had no sound and were enhanced with the presence of a live band for the public. As for the specific soundtrack, I think it works: Jekyll/Hyde is excited in getting rid of it's past, even if symbolically. Just my opinion.

[@gabrielroure7763]

The composer is Max Reger. Fantastic music...!

[@scottandrews9453]

Silent movies were accompanied by organ music played live in a theater on a Wurlitzer organ. The music was usually written for the movie by the producerses or director of the movie. Theaters would hire someone to play the music. However, some of the bigger theaters would hire orchestras to play for the bigger budget movies for which orchestral music was written, especially toward the end of the silent era.

[@Boots43096]

that part where hyde comes out of jekylls body as a spider is creepy af

[@conningdale8805]

Brilliant movie! Very enjoyable viewing. Thank you for posting it.

[@flynntaggart1820]

Mr. Hyde looks more terrifying in this movie then other adaptions.

[@johnwalbeck5068]

Here we are 100 years later in 2020 after this film was released

[@maxfrank13]

Such an incredible film.

[@nadiakostenko]

this classic story has interpretation in movies horror with this subject in next years, Thanks for fantastic work silent film 1920 ,my respect !

[@theMiraculousAngelic]

🍂🍁🦃🎃👻 Perfect to watch during relaxing autumn season within the months-(September, October, & November); especially on the holidays-(Labor Day, Halloween, & Thanksgivings) with delicious meals & in comfy clothings. 👻🎃🦃🍁🍂

[@oldfan1963]

Good flick. But the soundtrack was way off. It sounded like a Brandenburg concerto.

[@Yaddlezap]

The original Salad Fingers 26:41

[@jre-1337]

I like... rusty spoooons.

[@lillinablue]

🧚‍♀️"What you want most to be you are" 🎥❗🎭 It's true ❕✔️ I like even the book. 📖✨ A master ‼️💫

[@BenEmberley]

Can we have a list of Organ pieces played in this video please?

[@SiGhast]

For anyone put off by the score for whatever reason I highly recommend checking out the version posted by Retrospective - Classic Movies. It's got a fantastic, purpose-made soundtrack that matches the action (sometimes beat-for-beat).

[@A_random_Khajiit]

I'm literally obsessed with this film. I show to everyone who is willing to watch it with me.

[@jameslaiola4976]

Thank you so much for your uploads

[@smartman123]

oh my god 100 years movie amazing

[@tannaking1303]

I turn my sound off when I watch this. The organ consistently playing bores me. And I want concentration whilst reading the words on screen.

[@johnnyjacques6822]

I'm 16 and have enjoyed silent films since I was around 8

[@johnnyjacques6822]

I'm 16 and have enjoyed silent films since I was around 8

[@johnnyjacques6822]

I'm 16 and have enjoyed silent films since I was around 8

[@johnnyjacques6822]

I'm 16 and have enjoyed silent films since I was around 8

[@Daniele-Manno]

Yeah this soundtrack is pretty exhausting. There's a video of this called "THE STRANGE CASE of Dr JEKYLL & MR Hyde Music Mash Up" by Bart Capuano, I found that to be much better.

[@Vic-mv8iz]

1920 my dad was 16 and mum 15 Bless them

[@SickMetalAddict]

HALLO EVERYBODY IM 15 YEARS OLD AND I LIKE THESE MOVIES.... WHATS UP WITH AWFURL MOVIES TODAY O.M.G. SUCH HIPSTERS!!!

[@fin608]

+SickMetalAddict oh yeah? I love this and im 11

[@hayabusa5930]

Wow that's so crazy. Sick meme dog. I can't believe that such a little kid would like a movie that's so old and black and white with no sound. That's INSANE. Please stop being a cancerous meme. Happy 16th and 12th I guess.

[@kejiri3593]

I dont like superheroes, star trek or star wars. Thats all really

[@ooeygooeygoodra3068]

Got some hot cocoa comfy on a couch im ready to watch this movie.

[@euskadihelena3861]

Gracias por el excelente Canal! Saludos desde Euskadi!

[@anatapia9176]

John was the most good looking man who ever walked the earth

[@Beth9228]

I remembered seeing this during one summer when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was a little bit scary when I was a kid. During that one summer on my own that I watched so many horror movies on Saturday afternoons from the 1930’s,40’s,50’s, and 60’s. Some of them were scary that I have to covered my eyes in horror. I liked Boris Karloff when I was a kid. He was so good in them.

[@6ixConfessions]

Gorgeous old film thank you for the upload but such a pity the original music score couldn't be paired with it.

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

That is the tragedy that befalls most silent films of this era. Nosferatu's master reel was almost burned by Bram Stokers wife, it's a miracle the film even exists to this day.

[@lololo]

26:13 this is terrifying

[@durchfreude]

damn i remember this like it was yesterday when i watched this in 1920. those were the days...

[@abzeta]

Hello, are you still alive after 104 years?

[@durchfreude]

@@abzeta xD hi thanks for asking. yes im still alive and fitter than ever

[@abzeta]

@@durchfreude I wasn't expecting a response but I'm glad you're still in shape after many years. A hug and keep going!

[@catheadoff]

Thanks for shraring, Timeless Classic Movies!

[@deltaruth9730]

I want to go inside this movie and feel it, maybe i want to live there too

[@hyliadreamer]

There are elements of this that are clearly lifted from Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', rather than Stephenson's tale.

[@jkkluyre33]

Yes, I've heard this same score(beginning 26.56 on a Nosferatu version also- Excellent movie; curious what original music was used

[@macmahon_matt]

I wonder what is the score at the beginning?

[@TheLittleWerewolf]

Hi! I'm writing an essay about dr. jekyll and mr. hyde and for that i need to know the source of this video (for correct quotations in my essay). Would you tell me, where you got the film from?

[@joshgoede5975]

+Chucky Fuchs hey if you aren't already finished with your essay, this movie is in a 50 movie collection set called "horror classics" by mill creek entertainment. Look it up, maybe you can source it from that collection set?

[@TheLittleWerewolf]

thanks for the hint ;)

[@hildcit]

In each of us, two natures are at war--the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them and one of them must con-quern it in our own hands lies the power to choose---what we want most to be, we ARE......

[@sofiamariaargatu1469]

Beautiful movie, a masterpiece of that time👏 surely, ladies were terified of those scenes😈 pure horror for those times👏👏👏

[@innocentpeople2611]

I love black and white horror movie s

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

Music doesn't fit the mood of the action. Is this the original music? No matter; Barrymore's transformation is great. He did his own makeup on camera all in one take lasting one minute.

[@kevindietzel2842]

A lot of times for silent movies the film will be released for public domain but the music will not be so it gets changed.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

I think it is though, this is i think where organ music getting their creepy reputation comes from. Organ music is church/holy music, and suggests intellect as it's complicated music, and wealth and status. It's basically showing Jekyll and Hyde being both the epitome and perversion of holiness or good.

[@OEllsworth]

That question makes no sense. Silent movies were silent--they had no sound of their own, including music. In theaters, a pianist, organist, or pit orchestra/band would improvise music on the spot, so it would be different at every performance, to at least some extent. There is no such thing as original music.

[@gabrielroure7763]

This organ works of Max Reger is perfect with this movie!!! It give feel of action and a dramatic/expressionist/dark/fantastic/gothic ambiance...! 🔥💀🖤😈🖤💀🔥

[@demianmega]

Three reasons why Nic Cage should play this role: 26:00 59:20 1:17:50 Now I see what he did over there, he is a giver!

[@asapfilms2519]

What is the soundtrack of this film? Who composed it and what are names of the tracks?

[@monicacordero6890]

"You're paradise for the eyes but hell for the soul."

[@juliahornback2843]

My new go to 😎

[@brianmccarthy5557]

I'd sure like to have somebody who can read lips well watch movies like this and write out a transcript. My auspicion, at least in the movies that were based on a stage play, is that they were saying the lines as they would on stage. They would, as we say now, have been reading a script and probably would have eehearsed as if they were doing this on a stage with only one viewer. The camera. I wonder if they came up with a script of lines for the actors to say for silents that weren't based on plays or books.

[@alexjohnston8889]

I watched a lot of this with the sound off, the music is rather loud.

[@euskadihelena3861]

espectacular. gracias por compartir

[@carlosandre1992]

John Barrymore actor legendary 🎭 Theatre 🎭

[@aniseadhikari1667]

Most faithful adaptation.

[@NewAmadeus]

Great music ! Can you tell us something about the organ music ? Who is the composer, who the organist ?

[@gabrielroure7763]

Max Reger is the composer. There are some chorals and the last piece is the Introduction passacaille und fuge op 127, I discovered this piece with this movie and love it so much that I decided to play it!

[@BigMealsSmallPlaces]

You're missing some footage.

[@civilwarreenactingtips2980]

I love how the fake finger went flying at 29 min

[@zaltaire]

1:17:44 ... Rob Zombie's Dragula

[@ergbudster3333]

As I recall, the story was based on ether addicts, one of whom, a famous dentist, went mad and turned into a psychopathic killer or such.

[@ergbudster3333]

Although I rather doubt if he physically turned into a pointy headed monster. That's a bit over the top I should think.

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

You are partly right. But he didn't suddenly go mad, he was consistently drugging and poisoning people for a while out of a sick obsession and finally got caught after he poisoned his wife.

[@L.T.VideoAndAudio]

Love The film! Could i please use this footage in my Alice Cooper concert film? I would mention you in the Credits!❤

[@marcodevries4481]

25:04 first special effects!

[@deanwinchester3356]

You mean 26:13

[@anitagreen7425]

Excellent!

[@Northatlantic2012]

A very good film!

[@rosewoodfretboard]

The Profile. Incredible.

[@ravs094]

Does anybody know who owns the copyright for this film. It would be fantastic to know ASAP.

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

It's been in the public domain for a while now. Which is why it's on youtube.

[@whitesugarsweetchristine1023]

The love gave him a heart attack.

[@Cristiano48239]

At 29:29 "arrrrrrr, that mickyfin was good"

[@Videomaker-pz4xm]

This is terrifying 😨😱😲 59:22

[@grandma.p]

The medicine changes his appearance as well as his tendency to evil?

[@josefhormann7698]

" Dr . Jeykll ß Mr . Hyde -----> " I C O N E " in the picture ! "

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

The music does not match AT ALL

[@Unknower.]

Loved this film

[@maxfrank13]

The shadow is the door to our individuality. In so far as the shadow renders us our first view of the unconscious part of our personality, it represents the first stage toward meeting the Self. There is, in fact, no access to the unconscious and to our own reality but through the shadow. Only when we realize that part of ourselves which we have not hitherto seen or preferred not to see can we proceed to question and find the sources from which it feeds and the basis on which it rests. Hence no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted-and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality. When one is unable to integrate one’s positive potential and devalues oneself excessively, or if one is identical-for lack of moral stamina for instance-with one’s negative side, then the positive potential becomes the characteristic of the shadow. In such a case the shadow is a positive shadow; it is then actually the lighter of the “two brothers.” In such a case the dreams will also try to bring into consciousness that which has been unduly disregarded: the positive qualities. This, however, occurs less frequently than the too-hopeful, too-bright picture of oneself. We have this bright picture because we attempt to will ourselves into collectively acceptable patterns. There are several kinds of possible reactions to the shadow. We can refuse to face it; or, once aware that it is part of us, we can try to eliminate it and set it straight immediately; we can refuse to accept responsibility for it and let it have its way; or we can “suffer” it in a constructive manner, as a part of our personality which can lead us to a salutary humility and humanness and eventually to new insights and expanded life horizons. When we refuse to face the shadow or try to fight it with willpower alone, saying, “Get thee behind me, Satan,” we merely relegate this energy to the unconscious, and from there it exerts its power in a negative, compulsive, projected form. Then our projections will transform our surrounding world into a setting which shows us our own faces, though we do not recognize them as our own. We become increasingly isolated; instead of a real relation to the surrounding world there is only an illusory one, for we relate not to the world as it is but to the “evil, wicked world” which our shadow projection shows us. The result is an inflated, autoerotic state of being, cut off from reality, which usually takes the well-known form of “If only so and so were such and such,” or “When this will have happened,” or “If I were properly understood” or “appreciated.” Such an impasse is seen by us, because of our projections, as the ill will of the environment, and thus a vicious circle is established, continuing ad infinitum, ad nauseam. These projections eventually so shape our own attitudes toward others that at last we literally bring about that which we project. We imagine ourselves so long pursued by ill will that ill will is eventually produced by others in response to our vitriolic defensiveness. Our fellow men see this as unprovoked hostility; this arouses their defensiveness and their shadow projections upon us, to which we in turn react with our defensiveness, thereby causing more ill will. In order to protect its own control and sovereignty the ego instinctively puts up a great resistance to the confrontation with the shadow; when it catches a glimpse of the shadow the ego most often reacts with an attempt to eliminate it. Our will is mobilized and we decide, “I just won’t be that way any more!” Then comes the final shattering shock, when we discover that, in part at least, this is impossible no matter how we try. For the shadow represents energically charged autonomous patterns of feeling and behavior. Their energy cannot simply be stopped by an act of will. What is needed is rechanneling or transformation. However, this task requires both an awareness and an acceptance of the shadow as something which cannot simply be gotten rid of. Somehow, almost everyone has the feeling that a quality once acknowledged will of necessity have to be acted out, for the one state which we find more painful than facing the shadow is that of resisting our own feeling urges, of bearing the pressure of a drive, suffering the frustration or pain of not satisfying an urge. Hence in order to avoid having to resist our own feeling urges when we recognize them, we prefer not to see them at all, to convince ourselves that they are not there. Repression appears less painful than discipline. But unfortunately it is also more dangerous, for it makes us act without consciousness of our motives, hence irresponsibly. Even though we are not responsible for the way we are and feel, we have to take responsibility for the way we act. Therefore we have to learn to discipline ourselves. And discipline rests on the ability to act in a manner that is contrary to our feelings when necessary. This is an eminently human prerogative as well as a necessity. Repression, on the other hand, simply looks the other way. When persisted in, repression always leads to psychopathology, but it is also indispensable to the first ego formation. This means that we all carry the germs of psychopathology within us. In this sense potential psychopathology is an integral part of our human structure. The shadow has to have its place of legitimate expression somehow, sometime, somewhere. By confronting it we have a choice of when, how and where we may allow expression to its tendencies in a constructive context. And when it is not possible to restrain the expression of its negative side we may cushion its effect by a conscious effort to add a mitigating element or at least an apology. Where we cannot or must not refrain from hurting we may at least try to do it kindly and be ready to bear the consequences. When we virtuously look the other way we have no such possibility; then the shadow, left to its own devices, is likely to run away with us in a destructive or dangerous manner. Then it just “happens” to us, and usually when it is most awkward; since we do not know what is happening we can do nothing to mitigate its effect and we blame it all on the other fellow. -"The Evolution of the Shadow," Edward C. Whitmont, from "Meeting the Shadow," edited by Connie Zweig

[@freeminds9980]

Black and white movie more creepy then modern

[@AngelavengerL]

Very interesting movie but man the music didn't fit. All the ominous music was at the beginning when nothing was happening and the end ominous stuff was happy flutes and whistles....

[@chaturongarchary9773]

Incidental music is very annoying and unable to get along with such an horror flick .

[@fedz3404]

Happy 100th anniversary 🙈💕

[@redd7969]

This is scaring me tf

[@Koridai011]

Happy 100th Anniversary

[@gooseboi2541]

I feel like Nicholas cage would play an awesome Jekyll and Hyde

[@jeffreyriley8742]

25:24 Now that is INSTANT coffee!