is today as the past two days have not been great by any measure.
It was not in the cards for me to watch any movies last night... or anything else for that matter. Thus, earlier today was a 6 minute short from influential Spanish filmmaker Segundo de Chomon. From all appearances, he and legendary French filmmaker Georges Melies were not only contemporaries but influenced each other.
The plot as it is: incredibly basic yet that's all that was needed—several travelers on a dark and stormy night go into a haunted house where said house trolls them by doing some humorous things. There's even time to see stop-motion animation in action as an invisible figure prepares a table for dinner including cutting food & pouring tea. A terrifying-looking demon (which at least as of now is seen in the poster for the movie that Letterboxd has posted) also appears.
This deserves high marks-aside from a creature that will probably give you the heebie-jeebies and that's noteworthy for something over a century old, the effects still work—also impressive for a movie filmed in the first decade of the 1900's. Presumably, this was rather effective for the time. Thus, at least for me this was perfect viewing w/ Halloween just around the corner.
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