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poster The Mysterious Portrait
The Mysterious Portrait
(3/5)
1mn - Fantasy
A magician produces a living portrait of himself.
poster The Mysterious Retort
The Mysterious Retort
(2.9/5)
3mn - Fantasy, Horror
A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.
poster Invisible Ghost
Invisible Ghost
(2.6/5)
64mn - Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Dr. Charles Kessler, a respected physician still mourning his wife who supposedly died years ago, unknowingly becomes a serial killer when glimpses of her ghostly figure send him into murderous trances. A…
poster Vacuum Killer
Vacuum Killer
74mn -
After losing an arm in an explosion caused by his attempt to resurrect his recently deceased mother, Chris Burst, a young laboratory assistant, seeks refuge in the home of a drug dealer known to his frien…
poster The Marvellous Wreath
The Marvellous Wreath
3mn - Fantasy
A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.
poster Faust
Faust
18mn - Drama, Fantasy
Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total…
poster The Devil Bat
The Devil Bat
(2.7/5)
68mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice thei…
poster 10/31
10/31
93mn - Horror
Five spine-chilling tales of Halloween horror unfold in this terrifying anthology, where masked killers stalk their prey, cursed scarecrows come to life, and malevolent witches weave deadly spells. From h…
poster The Phantom Carriage
The Phantom Carriage
(4/5)
93mn - Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot…
poster Comical Conjuring
Comical Conjuring
2mn - Comedy
In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…
poster The Dream
The Dream
10mn - Drama
A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsi…
poster In the Mouth of Madness
In the Mouth of Madness
(3.6/5)
95mn - Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An insurance investigator begins discovering the impact a horror writer's books has on his fans is more than inspirational.
poster Horror Express
Horror Express
(3.3/5)
84mn - Horror
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
poster Frankenstein
Frankenstein
(3.2/5)
16mn - Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wed…
poster Whimsical Illusions
Whimsical Illusions
5mn - Comedy, Fantasy
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…
poster The Christmas Dream
The Christmas Dream
4mn - Fantasy
The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying dow…
poster Discipline
Discipline
103mn - Thriller
A series of murders are confounding the local police with its residue of mutilated corpses. It begins when a sadistic cult murders willing victims for entertainment. Professor Lafitte, a rich sophisticate…
poster The Musgrave Ritual
The Musgrave Ritual
(2.6/5)
18mn - Mystery, Crime
Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…
poster Robot Monster
Robot Monster
66mn - Sci-Fi, Horror
An alien robot sent to destroy the last humans on Earth finds his deadly mission compromised when he falls in love with one of his intended victims, forcing him to choose between his programming and his n…
poster The Lilliputian Minuet
The Lilliputian Minuet
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
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