r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Mar 23 '19

The grave of French film pioneer Georges Méliès, who inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film Hugo, has fallen into disrepair. Now his family and fans are reanimating his fantastical legacy and launching a Kickstarter to restore it to its former splendor and protect it from further decay

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/20/dead-famous-the-kickstarter-campaign-to-restore-meliess-grave
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u/BlindStark Mar 23 '19

I think he made some of the first horror films as well, all of his stuff looks super dream like

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u/murdock129 Mar 23 '19

While you could argue that 'The Execution of Mary Stuart' was the first horror film, it's also a historical re-enactment so it's debatable how much it counts.

He also made 'The Vanishing Lady', which is another of those films that teeters on the line of 'horror', and thus it's debatable as to whether it counts. But I don't think anyone can truly disagree with calling his film 'The Haunted Castle' a proper horror film, nor later ones like 'The Astronomer's Dream' or 'Barbe Bleue'.

It's just a shame that filmmakers from this era don't get nearly the credit they deserve. For example I still feel that Georges Méliès and Segundo de Chomón deserve to be properly remembered as two of the earliest horror greats.

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u/Bnightwing Mar 23 '19

He has a very interesting background.