June 4, 2022

This Day in Halloween: Highly influential Swedish silent horror film "The Phantom Carriage" opens in the U.S. in 1922. / Illustration by Allen Sison

The Phantom Carriage opens in the U.S. in 1922. The highly influential Swedish silent horror film about a ghostly carriage driver is notable for its sophisticated story telling and special effects and is still regarded as one of the greatest silent horror films and Swedish films ever made. A Swedish remake would follow in 1958. 

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