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1890s Horror Movies

Public list by WPS with 12 movies or TV shows/series

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The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots(1895)

1min | History, Horror
3.1/5 (with 44 votes)

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

Directed by Alfred Clark - With Robert Thomae

The Astronomer's Dream(1898)

3min | Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Vanishing Lady(1896)

1min | Mystery
3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès

The Haunted Castle(1896)

3min | Fantasy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 74 votes)

Le Manoir du diable or The House of the Devil, released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. The film tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its audiences, rather than fear. However, because of its themes and characters, it has been considered to technically be the first horror film, as well as potentially the first vampire film. The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle, circling a room, and then suddenly changing into the Devil. Producing a cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a young girl and various supernatural creatures in an effort to scare two cavaliers, eventually succeeding in causing one to flee. Ultimately the remaining cavalier is confronted face-to-face by the Devil before reaching for and brandishing a large crucifix, which causes the Devil to vanish.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès

A Terrible Night(1896)

1min | Comedy, Horror
2.6/5 (with 36 votes)

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The X-Ray Fiend(1897)

1min | Comedy, Horror
2.7/5 (with 23 votes)

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

Directed by George Albert Smith - With Tom Green

The Hallucinated Alchemist(1897)

2min | Horror, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film "Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou La cornue infernale" (The Mysterious Retort) as this film, "L'hallucination de l'alchimiste" (An Hallucinated Alchemist) from 1897, which continues to be considered a lost film.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Bewitched Inn(1897)

2min | Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his room--beds vanishing and re-appearing, candles exploding, pants flying through the air and his shoes walking away by themselves.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Cavalier's Dream(1898)

1min | Horror, Fantasy
1.9/5 (with 5 votes)

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast. Mephistopheles appears; then the old witch, who suddenly changes to a beautiful young girl. The changes and magical appearances are startling and instantaneous.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

Photographing a Ghost(1898)

1min
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

Directed by George Albert Smith

The Cave of the Demons(1898)

1min
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

Directed by Georges Méliès
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