I can not emphasize this enough: see The Testament of Doctor Mabuse.
The film has haunted me for the last two days - while watching it I thought, “oh yeah, nice, early Fritz Lang picture, some good shots, nice editing ideas, oh there’s something I haven’t seen before, oh look at that - that’s impressive, oh clever, hey that’s pretty creepy, holy crap, god in heaven, oh, oh, oh, that’s the scariest image I’ve seen in cinema, hey what’s that, is there someone else in the house?, what’s that noise?, I wish I wasn’t watching this at 1am in the morning, there’s someone here I know it, hello, hello, hello, oh god, oh.”
Some good insight into the visual and sound stragegies of the film can be found here.
See the Testament of Doctor Mabuse. You won’t forget it. Ever.
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In fact, I think horror / scary films were much better done years ago than they are today - is it because today's films primarily rely on "shock" scares instead of crafting a truly frightening image? "Freaks", and films like the one you just suggested, seem to go far above visually than what most scary films of today are capable of. Maybe the black & white adds something to it...
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