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The Haunted Castle is a french film of genre Fantastic directed by Georges Méliès with Georges Méliès

The Haunted Castle

The Haunted Castle
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Length 2minutes
OriginFrance
Genres Fantastic,    Fantasy,    Horror
Rating66% 3.343523.343523.343523.343523.34352

Le Manoir du diable, released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. The film, a brief pantomimed sketch in the style of a theatrical comic fantasy, tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its audiences, rather than fear; because of its themes and characters, however, it can technically be considered the first horror film, and (because it includes a transformation involving a bat) the first film depicting supernatural beings. The film is also innovative in length - its running time of over three minutes was ambitious for its era.

Synopsis

The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle. The bat circles the room, before suddenly changing into Mephistopheles, an incarnation of the Devil. Mephistopheles produces a cauldron and an assistant, who helps him conjure a woman from the cauldron.

Actors

Georges Méliès

(Mephistopheles)Jehanne d'Alcy

(Young woman)
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