The Haunted Castle (1896) on Netflix
NR18963mHorror
A giant bat flies into a medieval castle and turns into the Devil, who conjures a woman from a cauldron. Two cavaliers enter, and his assistant pokes their backs and vanishes.
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Plot summary
A giant bat flies into a medieval castle and circles the room before it suddenly changes into the Devil, a figure thought to be Mephistopheles. He produces a cauldron, and an assistant arrives to help him conjure a woman out of it. The room clears, and two cavaliers enter the castle. The Devil's assistant pokes their backs. He then appears in one part of the room and then in another, in an instant. The cavaliers cannot follow where he has gone, and one of them runs off.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Haunted Castle (1896)
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- The only known copy of Georges Méliès's The House of the Devil was bought at a junk shop in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the 1930s or 1940s, but was not recognized for what it was until 1985.
- Georges Méliès's 1896 film has been considered technically the first horror film because of its themes and characters, and its depiction of a human turning into a bat has led some observers to label it the first vampire film.
