Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931, dir. James Whale) Set design by Herman Rosse & Charles D. Hall (via)

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965, dir. Roman Polanski) (via)

“My aim was to show Carole’s hallucinations through the eye of the camera, augmenting their impact by using wide-angle lenses of progressively increasing scope. But in itself, that wasn’t sufficient for my purpose. I also wanted to alter the actual dimensions of the apartment — to expand the rooms and passages and push back the walls so that audiences could experience the full effect of Carole’s distorted vision.  

Accordingly we designed the walls of the set so they could be moved outward and elongated by the insertion of extra panels. When ‘stretched’ in this way, for example, the narrow passage leading to the bathroom assumed nightmarish proportions.”

-Polanski, quoted in Roman (1984)

Art deco lobby set for Grand Hotel (1932, dir. Edmund Goulding) Set design by Cedric Gibbons.

Son of Frankenstein (1939, dir. Rowland V. Lee) Expressionistic set design by art director Jack Otterson.

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The Emperor Waltz (1948, dir. Billy Wilder) (via)

London After Midnight (1927, dir. Tod Browning) (via)

London After Midnight (1927, dir. Tod Browning) (via)

Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) Photo by Gaston Longet. (via)

Above, poster art for The Golem (1920, dir. Carl Boese & Paul Wegener); below, still from The Golem (via)

Poster art and set design by Hans Poelzig.

Julie Harris & Richard Johnson in The Haunting (1963, dir. Robert Wise) (via)

Jacques Tati & Billy Kearns in Mon Oncle (1958, dir. Jacques Tati) (via)

Queen Kelly (1929, dir. Erich von Stroheim) Art director: Richard Day (via)

The Innocents (1961, dir. Jack Clayton, based on the Henry James ghost story, The Turn of the Screw) (via)

What shall I say when he knocks on my door? What shall I say when his feet enter softly? Leaving the marks of his grave on my floor.

Dracula’s Brides in a production still from Dracula (1931, Tod Browning) Art direction by Charles D. Hall (via)