The Haunted Castle (1897 French film)
The Haunted Castle | |
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
Release date | 1897 |
Running time | 45 seconds |
Country | France |
Language | Silent film |
Le Château hanté, released in the United States as The Devil's Castle and in Britain as The Haunted Castle, is an 1897 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.[1] It is a remake of a previous film by Méliès, The House of the Devil (Le Manoir du diable, 1896). The 1896 original, which was released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle, is sometimes confused for the 1897 version. It was the first movie remake.
The 45-second Le Château hanté is about a man who enters a haunted castle and is constantly taunted by spirits within.
Plot
Two men enter a room in a castle; one offers a chair to the other and then exits. The remaining man attempts to sit down, but the chair moves away from him, and he falls to the ground. When the man approaches the chair, it turns into a ghost, then a skeleton, and then an armored knight; then it disappears completely. Turning, the man finds himself confronted by Satan. He attempts to escape, but a ghost blocks his way.
Production and release
The film marks the second appearance of Satan as a character in a Méliès film (the first was
Le Château hanté was released by Méliès's
The film was the first Méliès work to be
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9782732437323
- ISBN 9782763773001
- ^ ISBN 9780813552989
- ISBN 9780786488933
- ISBN 9781783161140
- ^ Barnes, John (1983), The Rise of the Cinema in Great Britain, London: Bishopsgate Press, p. 86
- ISBN 0-8161-8368-6
External links
- The Haunted Castle at IMDb