{"id":3733,"date":"2019-10-13T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:27:57","slug":"dhff-2019-classic-sundays-la-maison-ensorcelee-or-the-haunted-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2019\/10\/13\/dhff-2019-classic-sundays-la-maison-ensorcelee-or-the-haunted-house\/","title":{"rendered":"DHFF 2019: Classic Sundays \u2013 \u201cLa Maison Ensorcelee,\u201d Or \u201cThe Haunted House\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest \u2013 one short horror film for every day of the month. It might be terrifying, it might be funny. It could be an homage classic monsters or something entirely new. Check back every morning for a new scare as we celebrate horror shorts! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Segundo de Chomon\u2019s 1908 silent film \u201cLa Maison Ensorcelee\u201d (a.k.a. \u201cThe Haunted House,\u201d \u201cThe House of Ghosts,\u201d or \u201cThe Witch House\u201d) is considered a comedy by many likely due to its slapstick nature, but also one of the first films to use a haunted house as its setting. There is plenty here to set spines tingling, especially for audiences who might not have been hip to camera tricks at the time. <\/p>\n<p>The stop-motion animation must have seemed amazing \u2013 bread that cuts itself, dancing ghosts and balls of fire. The image of the goat man who appears around the :54 is disturbing, slightly bigger than the people in the room falling all over themselves to keep away. For modern audiences, the film may have an uncanny feel, like spending a little too much time in your grandparents\u2019 root cellar or an antique shop where you\u2019re the only customer and the elder gentleman behind the counter is eying you the whole time you\u2019re in the store.  <\/p>\n<p>There are a few different viewing options on YouTube, including some with updated music. This one was meant to be viewed in silence, however, at least the first time or two you watch it. Make that your first experience with this short, and then explore after that if you\u2019re curious. <\/p>\n<p>If some of these images seem familiar, you might be remembering them from their short cameo in Jennifer Kent\u2019s The Babadook.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zt8hA41tAVA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest \u2013 one short horror film for every day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1422,5,386],"tags":[2357,2430,2424,2428,2429,2425,2427,2426],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","category-movies","tag-dhff-2019","tag-jennifer-kent","tag-la-maison-ensorcelee","tag-segundo-de-chomon","tag-the-babadook","tag-the-haunted-house","tag-the-house-of-ghosts","tag-the-witch-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-Haunted-House-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-Yd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}