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La maison morcelée

Original title: La maison ensorcelée
  • 1906
  • 16+
  • 6m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.7K
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La maison morcelée (1906)
ComedyFantasyHorrorShort

Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.

  • Director
    • Segundo de Chomón
  • Writer
    • Segundo de Chomón
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    1.7K
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    • Director
      • Segundo de Chomón
    • Writer
      • Segundo de Chomón
    • 24User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    8ostia666

    Scary

    La maison ensorcelée is a remake of J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel, which, at the same time, Chomón would remake more ambitiously the following year under the title The Electric Hotel. These remakes were the norm back in those days; as a consequence, copyright issues would arise but, until then, life was all a bowl of cherries to filmmakers.

    Blackton's film was so successful in Europe, Pathé ordered Chomón to make a version of it and, even though some of the scenes (especially the one containing food being served on the table all by itself) are copied frame by frame, it isn't fair to give all the credit to Blackton since Segundo de Chomón had released his La maison hantée a year before The Haunted Hotel appeared. Who should we thank then? Méliès again. A bunch of tourists being harassed by spirits at some inn was certainly a recurrent subject matter in his movies, take The Black Devil as an example.

    Regarding this movie, the two first scenes (introducing the atmosphere) are quite impressive: it's raining, the trees move as the wind blows and rays were added to the print causing a really shocking effect. It does look like a hell of a night (which couldn't be easy to portray so well in silent films). Three travelers take shelter in a house by the woods in which every kind of funny thing is going to happen: a ghost appears, clothes begin to fly all of the sudden, a painting comes to life, the house starts shaking up and so on.

    The copy I had the chance to view came from the Nederlands Filmmuseum and I must say it was pretty neat and very well conserved too. The effects are very successful, scary even to this day; performances are good too, but once again it lacks originality. Chomón was an expert in imitating things and even though he did not invent anything, he helped to develop some important techniques. His use of the stop-motion in this movie is amazing. This is a great film I could watch all over again and again.

    Solomon Roth
    8planktonrules

    Awfully fun.

    I noticed the other reviewer talked about how Segundo de Chomón imitated Georges Méliès. When he used many of Georges Méliès' trick camera tricks (such as starting and stopping the film to make things 'appear' or 'disappear'), I often liked his films as he STILL managed to make them his own. Sadly, sometimes Chomón simply stole Méliès work (a great example is his "Excursion to the Moon" which was an outright copy)--and I have a hard time enjoying these ersatz films. As far as this film goes, I would definitely put it in the former category--as it uses some of the other artist's techniques but is essentially Chomón's film from start to finish.

    The film consists of three folks coming to an old haunted house. For the rest of the film, the house torments them and many of the tricks it plays are funny, though the movie ends with a scary demonic face that probably sent a few shivers down the spines of audiences at the time. Today, it all just looks silly--but in an enjoyable way. Clever and funny--and worth your time.
    Dethcharm

    Creepy And Hilarious...

    In this 1906 horror film, three unsuspecting characters enter the titular abode, intending to spend the night. Unbeknownst to them, they're not alone, and are in for a very long evening.

    Director Segundo de Chomon's THE HOUSE OF GHOSTS is more than just a quaint, cinematic artifact. It's a short cavalcade of inventive, even ingenious, camera work and special effects.

    For its era, this is astonishing stuff! Especially the tabletop stop-motion sequence, featuring a delightful display of supernatural shenanigans. The various specters and fireballs are also impressive. The house-tilting finale is quite a feat for this time period.

    Highly recommended for fans of spooky fare, as well as those who love vintage films...
    7Pjtaylor-96-138044

    Get out of my house!

    'The House Of Ghosts (1906)' (listed as 1906 here, 1907 on 'Letterboxd' and 1908 on 'YouTube', where I watched it) is also known as 'The Haunted House' or 'The Enchanted House' and is apparently often misattributed as being the lost film 'The Haunted Hotel (1906)' (also known as 'The Haunted House'). Confused yet? I suppose confusion is to be expected here; the precise history of a film from over a hundred years ago is bound to be a little hard to come by, especially when that film has so many titles. Anyway, this affair is considered by many to be one of the very first examples of a haunted house in cinema, though the concept had obviously been readily explored in literature by this time. It tells the tale of a trio of travellers (two of whom have very strange heads) who come across an abandoned house and decide to rest there, unaware of the ghosts within. Its most impressive sequence is undoubtedly one in which a poltergeist prepares breakfast - consisting of sliced sausage, bread and either tea or coffee - in splendid stop-motion style. It's a wonderful little scene that's integrated into the live-action elements surprisingly well, with fluid animation that feels believable despite its unreality. The rest of the picture makes use of more standard, yet still impressive, special effects; ghosts appear in windows, sheeted spirits dance around, objects vanish without a trace and the room itself tilts and spins with glee. It's an energetic and action-packed short, for sure. It isn't even close to scary and its atmosphere is more manic than anything else, but it feels as though it's actively trying to be amusing so its lack of horror doesn't really matter. It's much more of a predecessor to something like 'Evil Dead II (1987)' than anything more serious. In the end, this is an entertaining affair that is undeniably a little dated but is still impressive considering its post-centennial status. It's enjoyable for what it is. 7/10.
    7Tera-Jones

    Not Bad

    The film is known in English as The House of Ghosts or The Haunted Hotel.

    It's not a bad 6 minute watch. Great stop motion for the time era - that took a lot of work to pull off the ghosts serving breakfast. There isn't much of a story line to this short - that is my disappointment with the film. It seems the film is mainly to show off the superb stop motion they learned during the time era.

    7/10.

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      This short film inspired director Jennifer Kent, and was included in a scene in her horror film Mister Babadook (2014).
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    • Release date
      • December 21, 1907 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Spain
    • Languages
      • None
      • French
    • Also known as
      • La maison des lutins
    • Production company
      • Pathé Frères
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    • Runtime
      • 6m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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