Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film The Mystic - Trailer (featuring Dean Hurley score)

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Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, we are pleased to announce Dean Hurley’s haunting original score for Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film The Mystic. Commissioned by The Criterion Collection and released on Blu-ray last week, it marks the first time this rare Browning title has ever been available on home video.
Set amid Browning’s favored milieu of shadowy sideshows and clever criminals, The Mystic tells the story of Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man, infiltrates and swindles New York high society. Browning’s fascination with the weird is on full display in the eerie seance sequences, while his subversive moral ambiguity extends surprising sympathy to even the most seemingly irredeemable of antiheroes. Truly a missing link in Browning’s filmography that sheds light on his development as early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur.
Hurley’s accompanying score is a fully hauntological affair featuring dusty accordion, nylon-stringed guitar, calliope, brass, and more…captured through sheets of authentic optical and analog noise. “The tradition of silent film soundtracks has typically always been one of live, improvisationally-based Wurlitzer or piano accompaniment…and I have always wanted to try advancing the clock forward in time a bit, approaching one with the same craft that crystalized with King Kong in 1932: ‘re-recording’ synchronized sound effects alongside a bespoke score in order to bring forth the maximum amount of life and energy to a film’s experience.”

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