The best Georges Méliès’s horror movies
Today we present the best Georges Méliès’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Georges Méliès’s movies.
The Haunted Castle
6.7/10
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 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, it has been considered to technically be the first horror film, as well as potentially the first vampire film. The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle, circling a room, and then suddenly changing into the Devil. Producing a cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a young girl and various supernatural creatures in an effort to scare two cavaliers, eventually succeeding in causing one to flee. Ultimately the remaining cavalier is confronted face-to-face by the Devil before reaching for and brandishing a large crucifix, which causes the Devil to vanish.
A Nightmare
6.5/10
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
The Infernal Cauldron
6.6/10
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
A Terrible Night
5.7/10
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
Bluebeard
6.9/10
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
The Merry Frolics of Satan
6.8/10
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.
The Haunted Castle
6.3/10
A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
The Monster
6.3/10
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
The Devil and the Statue
5.8/10
At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade falls to pieces, disclosing the devil. Juliet, frightened, runs to the window and calls Romeo. The latter attempts to enter and protect his fiancée, but at a gesture from the devil the window is instantly covered with a grating and Romeo makes frantic efforts to break it. The devil begins to dance a wild dance before Juliet, who is beside herself from terror. The devil gradually becomes the size of a giant (a novel effect). Juliet implores the statue of Madonna, which becomes animated, descends from its pedestal, and stretching out its arms orders the devil to disappear. (Méliès Catalog)
The Mysterious Retort
5.8/10
A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.
Cleopatra's Tomb
6.3/10
A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
