Le Manoir du Diable- The Manor of the Devil is a three minute long french film directed by Georges Melies. Le Manoir du Diable is considered to be one of the worlds first horror films and rather with the intended element of generating fear- typically expected in the genre of horror, the film is rather seen as comical and humorous as opposed to ‘scary’ with somewhat exaggerated and ‘over the top’ dramatical actions portrayed by the actors in the film. As suggested in an article titled ‘horror films part one’ on the web sight filmsite.org, despite the connotations of humor portrayed in the film, Le Manoir du Diable contains several “familiar elements of later horror and vampire films: a flying bat, a medieval castle,a cauldron, a demon figure (Mephistopheles), and skeletons, ghosts, and witches - and a crucifix to dispatch with evil.” The conventions of horror such as the enigmatic nature and the surreal/ paranormal elements of the film can be seen imitated in several other films following the release of Le Manoir du Diable.
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