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The Merry Frolics of Satan is a french film of genre Fantastic directed by Georges Méliès with Georges Méliès
The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906)
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Add to a movie listThe Merry Frolics of Satan (French: Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable, literally The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil) is a 1906 French silent film directed by and starring Georges Méliès. The film, an updated comedic adaptation of the Faust legend, follows the adventures of an engineer who barters with the Devil for superhuman powers and is forced to face the consequences. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 849–870 in its catalogues, where it is advertised as a grande pièce fantastique en 35 tableaux.
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L’ingénieur anglais William Crackford, amateur de records de vitesse, vend son âme à l’alchimiste Alcofrisbas – qui n’est autre que Satan – en échange de pilules magiques qui lui permettent de voyager selon ses désirs. Après une chevauchée céleste en compagnie de son valet John, avec un cheval apocalyptique et une voiture astrale, Crackford, entraîné aux enfers par Satan, finit sur un tourne-broche.Actors
Georges Méliès
(Satan)
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Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
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Rating63%
Un prêtre marche en priant dans un couvent puis sort de scène. Un diable apparaît dans le baptistère. Il tire les cloches, et se change en prêtre lorsque passent plusieurs religieuses. Il doit alors leur faire la messe. Il se rechange alors en diable. Effrayées, elles s’enfuient, alors que lui fait disparaître le baptistère et les chaises. Il fait ensuite apparaître des gargouilles et des diablotins. Une immense figure diabolique apparaît, se change en grosse grenouille, et le diable la chevauche sous les applaudissements de ses affidés, qui se sont saisis de leur fourche et dansent. Finalement, les religieuses avec leurs croix font tout disparaître. Le diable se bat alors avec un gentilhomme, puis avec le prêtre. Une cérémonie religieuse arrive, avec un ange armé, qui terrasse le diable.
The Devil and the Statue (1901)
, 2minutesDirected by Georges Méliès
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Demons in film, Romeo and Juliet
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Rating57%
, 2minutesDirected by Georges Méliès, George Albert Smith
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Demons in film, Vampires in film
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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.
The Treasures of Satan (1902)
, 2minutesDirected by Georges Méliès
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, L'Or
Actors Georges Méliès
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In a room in a medieval castle, Satan examines six money bags, and then locks them in a large chest. A blond man, creeping into the room on his knees, jumps toward the table where he expects to find the money bags. Realizing the money is in the chest, he forces it open, but the lid slams down on his fingers. When he opens it again, the money bags are jump and frolicking of their own accord. The man slams the lid down and sits on it, but he falls off when six young women in devilish outfits emerge one by one from the chest. They transform the money bags into spears and chase the man around the room; when the man tries to take refuge in the chest, it magically changes position. The women disappear, but the chest itself comes to life before transforming into a demon and tormenting the man. Satan and the demon throw the man in the safe, and they and the women dance around it as fire and smoke issue from it. Finally, the safe explodes to reveal the original money bags, safe and sound.
The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
, 1minutesDirected by Georges Méliès
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Georges Méliès
Rating65%
In a Renaissance chamber decorated with devilish faces and a warped coat of arms, a gleeful Satan throws three human victims into a cauldron, which spews out flames. The victims rise from the cauldron as nebulous ghosts, and then turn into fireballs. The fireballs multiply and pursue Satan around the chamber. Finally Satan himself leaps into the infernal cauldron, which gives off a final burst of flame.
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Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Demons in film, Films about dragons
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Faust and Marguerite (1904)
, 4minutesDirected by Georges Méliès
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Georges Méliès
Rating56%
En échange de son âme, Méphistophélès rend la jeunesse au docteur Faust. Il séduit Marguerite en lui offrant des bijoux, tandis que Méphistophélès joue de la mandoline. Faust tue Valentin, frère de Marguerite en duel. Celle-ci regrette d'avoir été tentée, se repent et meurt. Alors que Méphistophélès emmène Faust en enfer, (ils disparaissent sous la scène, grâce à une trappe), Marguerite, elle, monte au ciel.
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Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy
Rating62%
Two men enter a room in a castle; one offers a chair to the other, and then exits. The remaining man attempts to sit down, but the chair moves away from him and he falls to the ground. When the man approaches the chair, it turns first into a ghost, then a skeleton, and then an armored knight; then it disappears completely. Turning, the man finds himself confronted by Satan. He attempts to escape, but his way is blocked by a ghost.
Satan in Prison (1907)
, 5minutesDirected by Georges Méliès
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Georges Méliès
Rating58%
The film features Méliès in a room which is intended to be a cell and he finds ways to cure his boredom by performing tricks, such as vanishing and magically appearing picture frames and sudden appearing fireplaces and dinner tables with wine. Towards the end of the film he appears as Satan and tricks his guards by disappearing in a blanket.
Faust in the Underworld (1903)
, 6minutesDirected by Georges Méliès
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Georges Méliès
Rating61%
Le diable Méphisto entraîne Faust pour une longue descente sous terre. Il fait apparaître les uns après les autres des danseuses, un monstre tentaculaire, des démons en culotte et des flammes. Faust refuse de le suivre dans une crevasse, mais est contraint par Méphisto à descendre avec lui. Arrivés au fond de la caverne, ils voient des démons dotés de piques dansant. Méphisto surgit alors du sous-sol et déploie de larges ailes de chauve-souris, au milieu de la liesse générale.