The Silent Light Presents Films with Live Metal Score

Barking Legs Theater will have two showings of Silent Light's performances. At 7:30 pm will be the showing of Faust. At 9:30 pm there will be a showing of A Page of Madness. Each show is sold separately, or you can purchase a Double Feature ticket for a discounted price.

About The Silent Light

Founded in 2015 by Michael Formanski, The Silent Light is a musical endeavor that breathes new life into classic silent films through the power of heavy metal. Formanski, composer and film director, crafts each score drawing from the dark and intense realms of black metal, doom metal, and original fantasy soundtracks with influences such as The Body, Sunn O))), Emperor, Summoning, and Nobuo Uematsu.

The Silent Light’s performances transform silent films like Metropolis, Faust, and Nosferatu into contemporary masterpieces with their haunting and powerful metal scores. They continue to push the boundaries of what silent film scoring can be, inviting audiences to experience the classics in a way they never have before.

Faust

On October 9th, step into the dark world of F.W. Murnau’s Faust (1926), accompanied by a haunting live metal score performed by The Silent Light. Murnau’s legendary tale of temptation, damnation, and the supernatural is transformed into an overwhelming collision of silent cinema and crushing sound. One night only at the Barking Legs Theater, beginning at 7:30PM.

Faust was directed by F.W. Murnau and originally premiered in 1926. Drawing from the centuries-old legend of Faust as well as the writings of Goethe, the film follows an aging scholar who makes a bargain with the demon Mephisto. Desperate to save his town from a devastating plague, Faust trades his soul for the power to perform miracles, setting in motion a struggle between temptation, love, and damnation.

One of the final films Murnau made in Germany before leaving for Hollywood, Faust was among the most ambitious productions of the silent era. Elaborate sets, multiple exposures, miniatures, and groundbreaking photographic effects transform the story into a nightmarish vision of angels, demons, plague, witchcraft, and hell. Nearly a century later, its towering imagery remains some of the most striking ever created during the silent era.

A Page of Madness

Experience Kinugasa’s lost 1926 silent horror masterpiece A Page of Madness like never before, reimagined with a blistering live metal and electronic score by The Silent Light. This cinematic ritual of chaos and sound will be performed one night only live at the Barking Legs Theater at 9:30PM on October 9th, 2026.

A Page of Madness was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, and originally premiered in 1926. The film centers on a janitor working at an asylum, his wife, who is a patient there, and their daughter, who visits regularly. For the janitor, taking the job at the asylum was the only way he could stay close to his wife, who no longer remembers who he is.

Within just a few years of its release, every known print of the film had disappeared. For nearly 50 years the film was believed to be lost, until Kinugasa rediscovered a copy that had been stored in a rice barrel in his cabin in 1971. The version that survives is incomplete, missing roughly a third of the original material, and contains no dialogue or inter-titles. What remains is a feverish, expressionist journey into the mind.