Insane, weird but fascinating. The camera shots (which are sometimes quite frightning) and the editing are way ahead of its time.

I'm still kind of reeling from watching it and I definitely need to rewatch it to get a better grasp on my feelings for it, but it really is an impeccable bit of filmmaking using all sorts of stylistic madness to put you in the head of a mad woman resulting in some truly beautiful and strange images. It's often hard to tell what's real and what's imagined, and quite what direction the story is taking is often very elusive, but that's part of the fun. A haunting, stunning work of art.

manages to be the most frightening silent feature i've ever seen and whoever they got to rewrite the music did a bang up job. the only thing that hold this back from is that the story is incomprehensible due to the lack of intertitles. not that it would make sense anyway because it's basically just a surreal mishmash of creepy stuff held together by the setting.

A kind of film I have never seen before. Amazing cinematography, often difficult to follow, it requires all of your attention and is fascinating.

Wow, this was something else. I had to keep reminding myself this was made in 1926, as the mood it creates is nothing like I've ever seen from a silent film. This has to be the most hypnotic film I've seen, though I think the music greatly aided in that. The effects and camera shots are dazzling and impressive and are quite well suited for this story of insanity. I can't say I grasped everything on an intellectual level, but I sure felt something profoundly unsettling on an emotional level.

Does things I've never seen in a silent movie, it's so surreal and at times disturbing. A whirlwind of images, crazy music and insanity that unfortunately loses some impact after a while. Or maybe I was too tired when viewing it and need to give it another try.

The closest to a true nightmare I have ever seen in a film. Truly unsettling because it seems to be doing everything in its power to convey mood over plot and character (although it does have a bit of that too), I have seen a lot of Japanese cinema but never quite something like this. I was surprised and damned impressed by how much I was swept up by it, and how much is conveyed without that ever-meaningless dialogue or intertitles. This is the palpable power of expressionistic cinema.

Madness is a very apt description of the film. The images and soundtrack create a depiction of insanity that is truly raw and disorienting.

I do not know what I just saw... Oddly, oddly hypnotic. The editing pattern seem to follow a kind of dream logic. I think I LOVED this shit! Words miscarry.

Great nightmarish fun. Wholly captivating with its countless camera tricks and intense imagery. I thought it was a bit too experimental at times though, at least too much to leave me with any sort of emotional impact or to find it brilliant.

An avant-garde silent film might seem like a daunting prospect, but A Page of Madness joins the ranks of silent films that transcend the limitations of their time (as with Menilmontant, Nosferatu, A Corner in Wheat). It's use of montage, psychedelic and kaleidoscopic imagery as well as crosscutting gives of the feel of a more fluid production - more similar to a '60s experimental B&W film.

Holy shit, this is amazing. Kinugasa pulls out all the stops in his depiction of insanity: dutch angles, spotlighting, double exposures, distorted lenses, superimpositions, fast motion... the overall effect is striking and hypnotic. You're struck with one haunting image after another. And the film isn't simply a portrait of madness, there's a story here as well. Bold, dreamlike, experimental, and just downright awesome.