File from the cult vault // FILM-1118
1928The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs dates from 1928. In our video store, you will find it on the Gothic & haunted houses · Body horror shelf.

What it says on the label.
- Original title
- The Man Who Laughs
- Film year
- Original language
- Silent / no dialogue
- Also known as
- Der Mann, der lacht
The film’s language does not establish the audio, music or intertitles of the linked version.
Where we shelve this film
Gothic & haunted houses
Uncanny mansions, ghosts and dark romance behind creaking doors.
Body horror
Bodies out of control: transformations, parasites and fear of your own flesh.
Our genre tags are curated classifications. These descriptions explain the shelf, not the film’s plot.
From the editors
A permanent smile becomes a mask that cannot hide suffering: our borderland between uncanny imagery and human melodrama.
Screen on. Reality off.
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Same shelf. Next strange trip.
Shared genre tags and a nearby year bring these films together. There is no hidden rating.
Gothic & haunted houses · Body horror
Gothic & haunted houses · Body horror
Gothic & haunted houses · Body horror
Gothic & haunted houses · Body horror
Gothic & haunted houses
Gothic & haunted houses