“The Frenchman Georges Méliès was one of the first and clearly the most, perhaps, the most famous director in cinema, a filmmaker who took fantastic plots, fantasy plots and turned them into a film. The Devil’s Castle was one of those. And here are just the traditions the so-called “Grand Guignol” – a theater that was widespread, in which there were elements of cruelty and even strong ones, and which the viewer in the theatrical environment was led to some such terrible moments” – said the expert.
Kapterov noted that the connection with the theater was very strong, in the “Devil’s Castle” there is fantasy.
“But everything with Méliès was in such a very detached form. That is, in the end it did not evoke those emotions that real horror films were supposed to evoke later”, – the expert specified.
How did the first horror films and the horror genre appear? What special effects did Méliès surprise the audience with? In which theater did blood flow on the audience, and the performances ended with realistic murders? What were the first horror films and how scary were they? Which actor was called “the man with a thousand faces”? Details about this and much more – in the program “Unknown History” with Boris Ryzhov. Watch it on Sunday, March 5 at 11:30 am on REN TV.
