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- In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.
- Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
- An antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
- During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
- The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
- The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
- A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the "blood of a virgin" to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.
- The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
- As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. Complications ensue.
- "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" is a 1943 fantasy / horror anthology movie, where a man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
- Student Hans is so appalled by decadent Berlin and the schemes of the Communist Party that he inspires the Nazi cohorts of his fellow storm troopers to actively fight the Communists who in turn conspire to assassinate him.
- Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
- A story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great.
- Zombies: are they real? Every culture creates its own version of a zombie. There have been diseases in history that have mimicked behavior of a zombie virus. The plausibility is there. You would never be up against one zombie.you would be up against thousands or millions of zombies. How would you survive? There would have to be total destruction of the zombie spine. Death is mans ultimate fear. There is something more frightening when the dead come back to life and become our worst nightmare. Jonathan Mayberry (Author of Rot and Ruin and Dead of Night) says they are like insectsyou are surrounded on all sides. You cant outrun them, you cant kill them. Max Brooks (Author of World War Z) says that zombies come after the whole human race. Modern zombies come from a film made in 1968 by a as then unknown director George Romero (Night of the Living Dead). George Romero rewrote the book about zombies says Max Brooks. What started as a low budget horror movie became an international sensation. More than half of all zombie movies have been made since September 11, 2001. Romero did not invent the zombie. Its been around as long as man has walked the earth. The Epic of Gilgamesh was the first mention of zombies. Ishtar said I will raise up the dead and they will eat the living and the dead will outnumber the living. The word zombie means animated corpse which comes from the Haitian voodoo religion. In China the living dead are called Jiang Shi. The dead must be given a proper burial or they come back and torment the living
. Arabia 7th century called the Ghoul (had an immoral life). Female demon. In some of the oldest legends a Ghoul was a prostitute per Jonathan Mayberry. The name Ghoul became the name for a zombie in George Romeros Night of the Living Dead. Scandinavia 8th century called the Drauger. Norse mythology. It delights in what it is. England 12th century Revenant. Cleric William of Newberg documented zombies. He wrote One would not easily believe that corpses come out of their graves unless there were many cases supported by ample testimony. HOW TO FIGHT A ZOMBIE: : Katana, Machete 18th century, Mace, Crowbar, Battle Axe 11th century, Entrenching tool, Attack the Legs (hook and take off balance),Spear, Ice Scraper (20th Century), Head Shot, Karate moves . To understand zombies you have to begin at the end death. Corpses out in the open can pollute the water system, diseases, the body is broken down into over 400 different kinds of chemicals. The smell of death. Burials in locked and sealed coffins, tombs, underground, were our way of making sure the dead would not come back. In 2009 2 bodies were dug up by archaeologist and they had rocks in their mouths. Archaeologists speculated that they were buried this way to prevent them from dining on the living. The Greek invented a word for the dead rising Maschalismos which means to mutilate the body so it doesnt come back from the dead. The Chinese restrained the body. The Norse would take the dead body out of the house feet first so it wouldnt recognize where it had come from. We now bolt a coffin shut. A good death and a bad death. A bad death makes the spirit vengeful. The resurrection of Christ is symbolic of coming back from the dead in positive ways. Hes the anti-zombie. Zombies are always hungry. Cannibalism is a fear. Fear of being made into food. In Greek mythology the Titan God Chronos ate his son to prevent them from taking over. Chronos was the father of Zeus. Zeus killed Chronos. The Donner party (1846) is mentioned as an example of modern cannibalism. 48 settlers survived. In 1879 in Alberta Canada Swift Runner he had butchered his wife and 6 children. He said he was possessed by the Windego. Windego psychosis. 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer wanted complete power over the living and the dead. He would drill a hole in the victims head and fill it with acid. He tried to create a zombie. In Papua New Guinea ritualistic cannibalism occurs today. Mad Cow disease has symptoms of zombies. Zombies want to spread a virus. Night of the Living dead clips are shown. Plagues break down the bonds of society and destroy humanity. The Great Plague in Asia thru Europe in the 14th Century killed off a third of its population in 2 years known as the The Black Plague or Bubonic Plague. The Wrath of God. By the year 1400 the population fell by 100 million. In 1918 -1919 a more deadly plague struck..The Spanish Flu spread across the world killing nearly 50 million people in less than 3 years (H1N1 or Avian Flu.) End of the first World War people traveled more which spread the disease. In times of Pandemics denial can quickly turn into panic. In our time SARS, Mad Cow, West Nile Virus, H1N1. When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection at Carleton University in Canada the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all. - Human civilization would collapse. Throughout history there is a primal fear of a hoard (Rome 5th Century Visigoths). Mid 13th Century Mongol hoard stormed into Baghdad. WW II the hoard were the Nazis. Today Terrorists. No way to negotiate. Followed us home like zombies. In a lot of zombie fiction we see something we created something biological. Prometheus and Pandora myths are cautionary tales. Golum in Jewish mythology. In 1816 Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) about our advancements in technology and when humans try to play God. Galvanization of the dead man tries to reanimate the body. 1968 was the height of the Cold War. Today biological weapons have become our Frankenstein. Anthrax attacks traced to a US biological weapons lab. Need survival skills. Fortify your home. Bugging In. Bugging Out is a last resort. Instructions on how to survive. In May of 2001 the CDC published an official memo on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Zombies are the perfect 21st Century threat. Explanations of what would happen if a zombie apocalypse hit. Communication, Military Strategy, Global Response, Historic Lessons. Post apocalyptic societybasic needs. Need to form communities. The zombies are not the thing to fear, the thing to fear is what humans are capable of doing when they are afraid. THE END and GOOD LUCK. - A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
- Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
- Guido Gurlino, head of the Pisan army, wants the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi, but she rejects him, in love with Vitelli, head of the Florentine armies. Gurlino then kidnaps young Giovanna and makes her his wife. When, during a duel, Vitelli is wounded, he will be healed by Giovanna, whom the Pisans call Monna Vanna and whom she worships as an angel for her kindness.
- The people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops.
- "My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
- Detective Dongen, known as Shiva, exposes a Russian artist as a counterfeiter. Obsessed with his work he had unconsciously etched a motif from his picture "Man on the Gallows" on the plates with which he produced his counterfeit money.
- Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together.