The Haunted Screen

By Travis Mushett

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Category: Film History

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Episodes: 12

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The Haunted Screen is an antifascist project using film, history, and experimental storytelling to understand our authoritarian present. The first season—"From Caligari to Hitler"—investigates the chaotic, creative world of Weimar Germany. New episodes are tackling new topics.


Episode Date
Making a Martyr, From Horst Wessel to Charlie Kirk
Sep 26, 2025
Yeah, Y'all—This is Fascism: The Paxton Mixtape, Pt. I
Aug 11, 2025
Cinema Oblivion: Lost Films, Haunted Histories
Jan 31, 2025
A New Year, A New Orlok: Nosferatu vs. Nosferatu
Jan 07, 2025
Folk Horror, Pt. II: The Haunted Screen Gets Hauntological
Nov 27, 2024
The Happy Halloween We're So Back Folk Horror Extravaganza, Pt. I
Oct 31, 2024
1.6 — The End: The Blue Angel and the Twilight of the Weimar Republic
Sep 21, 2022
1.5 — Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou, Pt. II: A Marriage—and a Country—on the Brink
Sep 07, 2022
1.4 — G.W. Pabst & the German Left: When Pictures Got Political
Aug 31, 2022
1.3 — Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou, Pt. I: Seduction, Spectacle, and the Birth of Nazism
Aug 24, 2022
1.2 — Villains: Nosferatu, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, and the Timeliness of Terror
Aug 17, 2022
1.1 — Beginnings: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Rise of Expressionism, and the Long Shadow of World War I
Aug 17, 2022