I'm Getting A Brazilian Wax Tomorrow!

Le Manoir du Diable (1896) - Georges Méliès

Therefore, I state that now is the' death anniversary of one of the most important writers of the last century, Eric Arthur Blair , perhaps better known the pseudonym George Orwell , born June 25, 1903, and died exactly 21 January 1950.
Unfortunately this is not the appropriate place to talk about it, as Orwell has little to do with the macabre, although his works are warning of Horrors tutt 'other than human ...

So let us all 'anniversary the death of an important figure in the field of cinema, namely the French filmmaker and magician Georges Maries Jean Méliès , born at Paris' December 8, 1861, and died January 21, 1938.

Briefly, when the Lumiere Brothers can be considered the fathers of cinema, two fathers who saw no future for her child, we can say that it is George Méliès stepfather. The refusal of the Lumière
to sell their patents, Méliès was forced to recreate the 'invention of the brothers, then perfect it.
is to him that it must in fact the 'introduction of techniques now considered basic, such as installation, used by the director in a fun way to stage new and extreme forms of illusions which astound the public. With mounting
tricks, he manages to get rid of such objects and people, just stopping to shoot the subject, and then go back when it was removed from the 'shot, or maybe it was replaced with another object or 'other person. It is said that he has invented this technique, called Stop Trick , coincidentally, while filming the traffic of a street in Paris. The passage of a carriage, the camera stopped accidentally shooting, before returning to work for the passage of a hearse. Its effect on film was the 'sudden and unexpected transformation of the carriage into the hearse.
Worth mentioning is also the 'introduction of the "color". We think that this work was done by women who manually color the film in its entirety, one frame at a time.
Thanks to ingenious experimental methods to impress and manipulate the film, he can split, can be changed, can disappear and reappear, zoom in and out, move faster or slower, can carry the audience with new, strange and fantastic worlds.
Georges Méliès is actually the one who is called " the 'Inventor of Special Effects ", as well as the promoter of science fiction cinema, and it is worth mentioning here the beautiful and iconic Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902 .

Now we come to our camp, as it attaches to even the implementation Méliès the first film of 'Horror.
This film, obviously dumb and Black & White, Le Manoir du Diable , directed and performed by Méliès in 1896, and projected December 24 of that year in Robert Houdin Theatre Paris.
As most of the productions of the director, the film shows the supernatural elements, this time atmosphere conducive to a more somber note, as skeletons, witches, ghosts and devils, among which stands the figure of Mephistopheles, played by Méliès himself, always ready to get involved. Joining him
says his wife Jeanne d 'Alcy , the first ever French film actress, in fact his first appearance here.
For a period of 3 minutes, short, simple in its scenery, is not that 's just another excuse for the director to stage the tricks of the trade, and impress everyone' now his audience.

is the short ...