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The Haunted Screen

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.

tv & film film history

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150:12

Today's (Still) Fascist. Tomorrow Doesn't Gotta Be:...

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2026/07/16

The second and final installment of a series on why the country is indeed fascist, how we got that way, and what comes next. Listen to Part I first. (Or not. Whatever you want. Do I look like a fascist??) See you at the Great Hague Tailgate of 2029. Appearances from a truckload of future history-book villains, a 17-minute Minneapolis montage, and an extended shark metaphor. Time to pick up the harpoons, y'all.

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39:19

Making a Martyr, From Horst Wessel to Charlie Kirk

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2025/09/26

After the assassination of the right-wing organizer and influencer Charlie Kirk, MAGA has fallen all over itself to turn him into a movement martyr. But this isn't the first time fascists have sought to canonize a flawed man and use his memory for their own dark purposes. Meet Horst Wessel, a slain Nazi brownshirt who Joseph Goebbels elevated to national sainthood and cynically crafted into a Party marketing campaign.

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Yeah, Y'all—This is Fascism: The Paxton Mixtape, Pt. I

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2025/08/11

We knew it would be bad, but holy shit. With the collapse of the American project, it's been hard to focus on film history. So in this two-part series, we're switching things up. Using the five-stage framework that scholar Robert Paxton lays out in his Anatomy of Fascism, we try to make sense of how a slack-jawed game show host groped his way to autocracy. Part One covers fascism's first three stages, from the creation of a fascist movement through its seizure of power. The next episode will ...

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39:30

Cinema Oblivion: Lost Films, Haunted Histories

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2025/01/31

As many as 90% of silent movies are lost to the ages. How many holes does that leave in the story of film? This week: reel infernos, missing monsters, Jerry Lewis'... Auschwitz clown debacle, and a little hauntology as a treat.

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A New Year, A New Orlok: Nosferatu vs. Nosferatu

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2025/01/07

Robert Eggers' new version of Nosferatu is an absolute horror show in the best way possible. With Orlok Fever sweeping the nation, we're taking the opportunity to repost a 2022 episode on F.W. Murnau's century-old original. Travis also offers his take on the Eggers adaptation. He promises not to read it as a political allegory, then promptly does so anyway.

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52:23

Folk Horror, Pt. II: The Haunted Screen Gets...

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2024/11/27

Folk horror is a past-haunted subgenre for our past-haunted times. Appearances from A-Ha, Christopher Lee, Jacques Derrida, Ronald Reagan, Mark Fisher, and creepy child laughter. Episode artwork by DALL-E. Yeah, I know.

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40:16

The Happy Halloween We're So Back Folk Horror...

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2024/10/31

Midsommar!Witchfinder General!The Blood on Satan's Claw!The Wicker Man! '73! And a lil '06 as a treat!No Derrida, though. Gonna have to wait for Derrida.

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74:27

1.6 — The End: The Blue Angel and the Twilight of the...

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2022/09/21

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1.5 — Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou, Pt. II: A...

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2022/09/07

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1.4 — G.W. Pabst & the German Left: When Pictures Got...

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2022/08/31

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1.3 — Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou, Pt. I: Seduction,...

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2022/08/24

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1.2 — Villains: Nosferatu, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler,...

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2022/08/17

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84:35

1.1 — Beginnings: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the...

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2022/08/17

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1:57

Trailer: The Haunted Screen

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2022/07/17

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