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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This movie is not George Albert Smith's version of The Haunted Castle. This is Georges Méliès version. The one you posted on the info area, is Méliès's "Le manoir du diable", which is 3 minutes long. George Albert Smith has a version of Méliès "Le chateau hante", also 1 minute long, but I can't find it on the internet.
@diogoalcada 34
This is indeed a Méliès tableau, wrongly attributed to Smith. You see, Méliès released two differents films with the same american title. This is the shorter one. Smith's version is forever lost I'm afraid.
@Neuroneos 14
This is a George Melies film. You can tell because it's labelled "star film 96" at the beginning. Melies numbered all his films meticulously to the extent that he labelled the individual scenes in L'Affaire Dreyfus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s_filmography lists all his films and this is #96 Le Chateau Hante. I wish I could find George Albert Smith's version too but I don't believe this is it.
@Rocket1Moose 14
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