La Rage du Démon

A clever idea, well executed. At heart it is a spoof of cultural/historical documentaries, with various talking heads (cinema professionals, critics, and the like) earnestly giving their very best expert analysis of largely fictional events in the history of early cinema. They are, for the most part, playing themselves while following a script. Despite this they mostly come across in a very naturalistic way, even though what they are talking about is not just untrue but rather far-fetched, which leads me to think that the director probably let them improvise their own dialogue from detailed notes. However it was achieved, it works.

The film also contains entirely factual segments about the remarkable career of the pioneer director Georges Meliès, well illustrated with an abundance of material, and which effectively function as a real documentary embedded in the fictional one.

This is not the actual movie. It's a French documentary about the movie with everyone's opinion about the movie. Al, it does is whet your appetite to watch the movie but that never happens....

If there had been actual clips of the movie, alleged event, or its effects on people other than just allegations.

I'd been looking for this movie on stream or P2P for a long time and finally was able to watch it, only to be left somewhat disappointed in the experience.

For a "mockumentary" based on an elusive (fake) silent era collab between Georges Méliès and Victor Sicario there are surprisingly nothing more than talking heads throughout. We spend an hour jumping around all sorts of different threads and supposed details on a raft of things, leading up to... well nothing. The film is presumed lost until its next mysterious appearance where it will surely wreak further havoc on another unsuspecting cinema audience. Theres nothing clever here, no liberty taken to create snippets of the lost reels and nothing more than a nod to some of the work of one of the pioneers of early film. The fake interviewees range from plausible to downright reading off a teleprompter and they just take you further out of what had the potential to be a fun little find.

Yet another 'mock'umentary that, albeit not a bad film, gets your hopes up to explore a mystery that goes no further than say a short Wikipedia search.

I don't want to dissuade anyone out there from viewing this movie and I'm going to make a point here not to give any of the plot away. It really isn't a bad film just turn your brain off for an hour and enjoy!!

Another reviewer said something along the lines of "LA Rage du Demon" really makes you want to see the original. And that was true for me too. "Fury of the Demon" really does get your hopes up to go out and and do your own search for any possible way to see this long lost film despite this little mock'umentary's warning of its dangers...

However sadly no matter how hard you search for the original "La Rage du Demon" you'll never come across your own copy because, it never existed to begin with.