Taegan Lion
The work of film pioneer and magician George Méliès, the three-minute The Manor of the Devil features Mephistopheles, who conjures a cast of scary characters inside an ancient castle. All right, so there’s no CGI, no gore and no Ultra HD 4K.
But it shows a vivid imagination using the groundbreaking moviemaking FX of the day. You can then complete a Méliès Halloween short-binge with another three-minute film, The Devil in a Convent (1898), in which Satan disguises himself as a priest inside a convent; and the six-minute epic, The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906), in which the devil takes two passengers on an eternal ride.
Contributor: Larry Greenberg from The Savvy Screener
