After being placed on house arrest, a woman begins to suspect that her childhood home is haunted. As she investigates, she uncovers dark secrets and must confront the horrors that lurk within. With a mix of comedy, horror, and mystery, Housebound keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)
A teenage boy struggles to keep his father's faith in God, when his family falls victim to the plot of the Devil.
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