Georges Méliès puts Satan in a buggy and says 'what could go wrong?'
Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.
Direction
Méliès invents visual effects cinema in real time
Practical Effects
Hand-colored hellfire still looks gorgeously unholy
Costume
Satan's outfit: camp before camp was camp
Director
Georges Méliès
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Méliès hand-painted each frame himself, meaning Satan's red costume required hundreds of individual brushstrokes.
This film helped establish the 'trick film' genre that would evolve into modern special effects cinema—literally the grandfather of Marvel movies.
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