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The Haunted Castle

18963 minFrance
HorrorFantasy

Synopsis

A bat enters a castle and transforms into a devil who conjures an assistant, a woman and a series of apparitions. Two visitors find themselves surrounded by vanishing objects and figures that refuse to keep the same shape. Their attempts to resist turn the haunted room into a compact theatre of surprises, fright and comic confusion.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
3:18
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Written and directed by Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Behind the scenes

Méliès filmed the trick scene with painted scenery in his garden. Its devils and spectres later earned it a place in horror-film histories, although its transformations also belong to the tradition of comic stage magic.

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