Query: 1900s 3D or horror films
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
The House of Ghosts
The Monster (1903 film)
The Infernal Cauldron
The Mysterious Retort
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 film)
Blue Beard (1901 film)
Evidence from documents: The House of Ghosts: 1900s: a 1906 French short film
horror films: considered to be one of the earliest cinematic depictions of a haunted house premise.
Two men and a woman stop at a small house in the woods. Inside, they experience numerous instances of paranormal activity, including disappearing furniture; a stereotypical ghost; movement of cutlery and food on their own; ball lightning; unexplained tilting of the entire home; and a grotesque being with claw-like fingers that attempts to eat the trio.
The Monster (1903 film): 1900s: '''''The Monster''''' () is a 1903 French short silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.
horror films: ''The Monster'' is also reminiscent of horror films, but was made before horror was established as a film genre.
The Infernal Cauldron: 1900s 3D: Serge Bromberg, the founder of Lobster Films, presented 3D versions of ''The Infernal Cauldron'' and another 1903 Méliès film,
1900s: a 1903 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.
The Mysterious Retort: '''''L'Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou la Cornue infernale''''', released in the United States as '''''The Mysterious Retort''''' and in Britain as '''''The Alchemist and the Demon''''', is a 1906 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 874–876 in its catalogues.
In a laboratory, an alchemist is working with a large retort on a stove. After consulting a book, he falls asleep in a chair near the retort. As he sleeps, a giant snake comes out of the stove and transforms into a jester, who wakes the alchemist and forces him to look in a hand-mirror. When the alchemist does so, the retort grows much larger, the alchemist falls back to sleep, and a giant spider with a human face appears inside the retort. The spider dissolves into a young woman sprinkling coins onto the ground. Sparks escape from the retort and transform into a ghost. The alchemist wakes in terror, and the giant retort explodes. Two assistants run to the alchemist, who has fallen prostrate on the ground. The jester reappears and stands triumphant over the fallen alchemist.
Méliès appears in the film as the alchemist. Though he often took roles in his own films, ''The Mysterious Retort'' marks one of the very few instances in which Méliès's character is defeated and apparently dead at the film's end.
The Haunted Curiosity Shop: '''''The Haunted Curiosity Shop''''' is a 1901 British short silent horror film directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring an elderly curio dealer alarmed by various apparitions that appear in his shop.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 film): '''''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''''' is a 1908 silent horror film
Blue Beard (1901 film): The room is a torture chamber, and these bags are dead bodies: the seven past wives of the murderous Blue Beard hanging on hooks, dripping stale blood onto the floor. The new wife drops the key in her horror and is stained with dead wives' blood which the wife relentlessly tries to wash off.