A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
Direction
Méliès invented stop-motion horror before electricity in most homes.
Practical Effects
Every ghost is a dude in a sheet, and it's terrifying.
Editing
Substitution splices so smooth you'll miss them blinking.
Director
Georges Méliès
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Méliès discovered the stop-trick by accident when his camera jammed during a street scene—this film weaponizes that happy mistake.
Released two years after the Lumière brothers' first public screening, this proves horror was there at cinema's birth, screaming.
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