A one-person piece for 'man with a thousand faces.' Silent horror film icon Lon Chaney was son of deaf-mute parents, and thus.

A one-person piece for the 'man with a thousand faces.' Silent horror film icon Lon Chaney was the son of deaf-mute parents, and thus, already as a child, perfected pantomime. He rose to fame as a master of disguise with a penchant for grotesque appearances and torturous contortions. Norbert Pfaffenbichler has remounted the forty-six preserved films of the two hundred that Chaney made into a tribute in A Messenger From The Shadows. A tribute to Chaney's art, to the uncanny power of the horror film, and to the paradoxical enchantment of cinema: Notes on Film 06.—Anonymous