A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
Direction
Méliès invents horror tropes before horror existed.
Practical Effects
Hand-painted frames make corpses glow like hellfire.
Editing
Stop-motion substitutions that still feel like magic.
Director
Georges Méliès
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Méliès painted the film frames himself — each corpse glows because he literally colored them by hand.
This is cinema's first proper horror film, beating even Nosferatu by two decades. You're welcome.
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