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Le Manoir Du Diable (House of the Devil) - 1896 - Georges Méliès

Directed by Georges Méliès, Star Film Company

Le Manoir du diable or The House of the Devil , released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle , is an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès . The film, which depicts a brief pantomimed sketch in the style of a theatrical comic fantasy, tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its audiences, rather than fear. However, because of its themes and characters, the film has been considered to technically be the first horror film . Such a...

Public domain (marked by the uploader on the Internet Archive). Streams from the Internet Archive.

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