Classic Horrors Club

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween.

Many consider the first horror film to be the 1896 French short by Georges Melies, The House of the Devil, aka The Haunted Castle.) In its three-minute running time, Mephistopheles conjures a variety of supernatural characters from a magic cauldron. It features skeletons, ghosts, bats, and the devil, characteristics that we, in 2025, associate with a horror film.

But is it really a horror film?

Hear more about it in today’s video on @ClassicHorrorsTV:

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