The Ghoulish Plot: A wanderer obsessed with the supernatural finds his way to a small town and takes up residence at the inn. After his first creepy night, a man enters his room and declares that “she must not die.” The wanderer discovers that the man’s daughter has been bitten by something and is steadily declining in health, and clues indicate that the town may be home to a vampire and to save her, they’ll have to find the vampire and kill it.

Shot in Germany in 1932 between two World Wars and without the special effects of today, this thing is a surreal and spooky-ass film that relies on using lights and shadows and misdirection in order to make every frame just a little…off. There is dialogue but it’s sparse and the whole film creates a very, very spooky atmosphere without having to show anything gruesome or bloody.

Will the hero find the vampire and save the girl, or will yet another soul be captured by the prince of darkness? True to its German roots, our hero may succeed at his goal but the movie ends on a colossal bummer. Gott im Himmel!

The Scariest Part of the Movie: As somebody who has stayed in some pretty cheap-ass motels for comedy and had cleaning staff just barge into the room at 7:30am even with the “do not disturb” sign on, the guy entering his room made me VERY uneasy, as though I was right back in that highway La Quinta in Sacramento.

Spookiness Factor: it’s black and white, it’s German from 1932, it’s shadowy and creepy from start to finish. I’d never seen this and could not believe how effectively weirded out it made me.

Rating: 8 out of 10 Fun-Size Snickers