The Haunted House (La maison ensorcelée) is an amazing little short silent film from 1908 by French director Segundo de Chomón. It’s very strange and definitely worth a viewing!
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The Haunted House (1908)
Posted in Video with tags 1908, early, film, french, haunted house, la maison ensorcelee, segundo de chomon, silent, silent film on January 28, 2013 by elgraysoHäxan
Posted in Movies, Satan with tags film, haxan, silent, throughout the ages, william burroughs, witchcraft on August 23, 2011 by elgraysoLa Cochon Danseur (The Dancing Pig)
Posted in Movies with tags 1907, dancing pig, film, france, french, La Cochon Danseur, Pathé Frères, silent on June 11, 2011 by elgraysoFrance, 1907
the best part is at the end (2:06)
The Child Molester
Posted in Uncategorized with tags child, children, educational, film, highway safety, korn, molester, the child molester on February 9, 2011 by elgrayso
A Highway Safety Film
The video would not embed, but you can view it here.
Bringing out the big ones here on the creepiness scale. I originally saw the highly disturbing educational short “The Child Molester” as a bonus feature when I purchased the DVD of “Hell’s Highway”, a documentary on highway safety films (ie; Red Pavement, etc… we will leave those for another post). This particular educational film was geared towards a very young audience, much too young for the subject matter. This film does contain GRAPHIC CONTENT at the very end (aprx 18m into it).
However, the reason I chose this short was the simple fact that even without the ending it would still be completely traumatizing to an 8 year old. It has every aspect of creepy. You’ve got your creepy melody and matching title screen right from the start, your typical mondo-era narrator pushing you along throughout the plot and all while playing through a 1960s film reel that looks like it’s been melting in a dungeon for 30 years. I understand wanting to warn children about talking to strangers, but this took it a bit far.
The film in a nutshell
