There are a lot of vanishing and appearing people and objects, this was a magic trick unparalleled in 1896, and it probably astonished audiences at the time. Still, there is a story: the devil haunts this house, and the men do battle and eventually win over the devil. The girl turns into a group of witches, but then the man grabs a cross off the wall and scares away the devil.
The girl comes out from the next room, and the man falls in love with her as the devil watches. Two men come in, and the devil and his assistant scare them. He makes a large cauldron and also conjures an assistant, then he conjures a girl from the pot. Run Time: 3 Minutes The House of the Devil (1896)Ī bat flies in and morphs into the devil. Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Jules-Eugène Legris, Georges Méliès Most importantly, we discuss which films hold up for the modern viewer and which films are positively sleep-inducing today. By examining each film in chronological release order, we can quickly see how tastes, values, budgets, and even special effects grew through the two decades these films were produced. Each film has some trivia and commentary. This book includes viewing synopses of thirty-four silent films, including a discussion of several influential "lost films" that have not survived to the present day. The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the opera are only the most famous of these, but there are many more. Nevertheless, that two-decade period produced some of the most innovative and influential films of all time. Except for a few notable outliers, the silent age had entirely ended by 1930, supplanted by the more flexible talkie films. Still, the lengthier and more serious films didn't appear until 1910 or so. Even Georges Méliès, the pioneering filmmaker best known for his science fiction film, "A Trip to the Moon" from 1920, tried his hand at short horror films, starting in 1896, even experimenting with a color horror film as early as 1903. Still, it didn't take long until the filmmaker's minds turned to terror for their audiences' enjoyment. This is true today and was especially true in the earliest days of film.įilm and filmmaking were still a newfangled novelty for experimenters in the late 1800s. Horror movies have always led the way with special effects and innovative storytelling.
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