The Hallucinated Alchemist
The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film "Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou La cornue infernale" (The Mysterious Retort) as this film, "L'hallucination de l'alchimiste" (An Hallucinated Alchemist) from 1897, which continues to be considered a lost film.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | L'hallucination de l'alchimiste |
| Year | 1897 |
| Country | France |
| Genre | Horror, Fantasy |
| Director | Georges Méliès |
| Runtime | 2 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.0/10 (26 votes) |
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Méliès constructs a brief narrative that relies entirely on the magic of visual transformation. It explores obsession and the dissolution of reality through the lens of theatrical illusion.
What lingers after viewing is the primal seed of cinematic horror, where fear springs not from darkness but from a sudden rupture in physical laws. A foundational trick. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Georges Méliès
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In dim light, with silent reverence for the hypnotic flicker.
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