A Terrible Night (1896)
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
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Absolutely Brilliant!
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
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.
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
A man blows out the candle light and goes to bed. Unfortunately the moment he dozes off, a huge scary bug starts crawling up his blanket. He manages to chase it away, but next it's on the curtain. Enough, he thinks and gets out the broom, hits it hard and puts the dead animal into a bucket from his nightstand. But is it really gone?I'm not too big on bugs either, i.e. I hate most of these little bastards, so I found this short film probably more interesting than it actually was. It's an okay watch for silent film enthusiasts, but for the broad masses not really. Also about scary nighttime fantasies, I like Méliès "Un cauchemar" from the same year a lot more.
Terrible Night, A (1986) *** 1/2 (out of 4) aka Une Nuit terrible Very funny film from Melies has a man in bed trying to go to sleep when a large bug (perhaps a spider) walks over him so the man has to battle it. This is a very funny short, which lasts just a minute but most of that time you'll find yourself laughing. The ways the man tries to kill the bugs changes from one bug to the next and they keep getting funnier. That weird, fantasy like world of the director is certainly on display here and fans of the man will certainly want to check this one out.