Friday 21 June 2024

Earliest slasher?

 

Suicide of Colonel Henry (1899)


Directed by Georges Melies this is an early short film. A man in a prison cuts his own throat.


Without knowledge of the Dreyfus affair the scene here is a bit without context for some of us. As a scene the film is decently made, the set is very nice. The surviving image is of good quality too.


3/5

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