This year we celebrate the 91st birthday (1927) of the release of a lost...but never forgotten horror film.... London After Midnight: “The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?” -IMDB description of London After Midnight The last copy of the film known to exist was destroyed in the 1967 MGM vault fire, making London After Midnight one of the most famous and eagerly sought after of all lost films. But why does this film spark so much interest? It was remade by the same director as Mark of the Vampire (1935). “Mark of the Vampire is a 1935 horror film, starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt, and directed by Tod Browning. It has been described as a talkie remake of Browning's silent London After Midnight, though it does not credit the older film or its writers” - Wikipedia Mark of the Vampire had THE Bela ...