The original serial killer husband drops in 1901 — and cinema's never been the same.
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
Direction
Méliès invents horror tropes before horror existed.
Practical Effects
Hand-painted frames make corpses glow like hellfire.
Editing
Stop-motion substitutions that still feel like magic.
Director
Georges Méliès
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