Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Hitchcoc A man in turn of the century bed clothes is trying to sleep. Unfortunately, a giant insect crawls up the side of his bed (it's about the size of a cat). He engages the thing and loses any hope of sleeping, even though he neutralizes the beast. There is some decent comedic stuff and it is fairly satisfying and silly.

HorrorMovieProjectNET Georges Méliès does it again in the same fashion as Le Manoir du Diable. Albeit shorter than his prior voyage into horror film. This is at least a different story. Instead of this being a period piece, it appears to be a modern one.The film shows George Melies, himself, having One Terrible Night with a creepy, crawly, spider. The film is one of dozens of shorts released during the era that focused more on drawing crowds biased on technology rather than the plot of a film. It is still going to be a few years before Horror is fully shaped and functioning.If you are curious to see what film looked like in the 1800's then check out below where I have included the short.Georges Méliès stars as himself in this one man performance. The Film is called One Terrible Night

Theo Robertson A man prepares to go to sleep in his room only to find a large bug crawling up the bed sheets This is another very early film from French director Georges Melies which lasts over one minute so there's not a lot here for people who watch a film for narrative structure . That said because it's an early surviving film from Melies - who I'm reliably informed at least by the Wikipedia plays the man - it's worth seeking out if only because it shows the first stirrings of the imagination of the auteur You can laugh at the film instead of with it featuring as it does a very obvious trick of getting a giant model beetle ( I'm sure it's a beetle and not a spider ) tying a thin thread to it and get someone to pull the model along while being out of shot . This helps to illustrate the imagination and humour of Melies who would go on to hypnotise audiences a few short years later with his special effect extravaganzas

MartinHafer Georges Méliès was a brilliant director and innovator. While his films might seem a bit quaint today, in his times, he did more to improve films than anyone...period. His fantasy films still hold up reasonably well today and are quite charming. Not surprisingly, his genius is celebrated in the new Scorsese film "Hugo". In the world today, there are very, very few people who have seen more of his films than I have. This isn't boasting--more just stating that I have an obsession with his work and have sought out as many of his short films as is humanly possible. Because of this, I have a very good idea what is his best and what is his less than best work. "A Terrible Night", while mildly amusing, is clearly not among his best work. While it actually tells a bit of a story (and many film in 1896 really didn't), the story is very scant and overdone--even by standards of the day. It simply consists of a guy (like most of his films, Georges Méliès himself) in bed when a HUGE bug crawls over him. He then smashes the bug and jumps around smashing what you assume are the bug's babies. That's really it. On the plus side, the bug on a string did have independently moving appendages--but it's still just a bug on a string.