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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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Release : 1897
Rating : 6.2
Studio : Star-Film, 
Crew : Director, 
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Genre : Fantasy Horror

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Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty
2018/08/30

Memorable, crazy movie

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Afouotos
2018/08/30

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Dynamixor
2018/08/30

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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FirstWitch
2018/08/30

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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He_who_lurks
2018/07/21

Sorry to tell you this, people, but the beautifully stencil-colored, 2-minute "L'hallucination de l'alchimiste" that is all over YouTube and on a DVD of Melies's films is really just a second, shortened print of Melies's "The Mysterious Retort" from 1906. It's crazy to think how even film experts fell for that. The original film (now actually lost) supposedly featured an anthropomorphic star with a huge face and five female heads with people coming out of its mouth. No idea what the alchemist has to do with that, but there you are. Anyway, I really hope they find the actual short. Watching an anthropomorphic star with a huge face and five female heads with people coming out of its mouth could be great entertainment.

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Michael_Elliott
2011/08/25

L'hallucination de l'alchimiste (1897) *** (out of 4)aka The Hallucinated AlchemistWonderfully entertaining film from French master Georges Melies has a alchemist sitting in front of a glass container, which soon begins to capture the dreams of the man. Inside this dream includes images of a spider in its web, a demon-like creature and eventually fire begins to come from the glass. Melies will always be remembered for his trick films and this one here is a pretty effective one. The tricks are all obvious today but that doesn't take away from any of their charm and even when viewed today one can't help but be impressed with what Melies was able to do so I can't imagine what it would have been like seeing this back in 1897. Another major bonus here is that this was hand-tinted and the colors look absolutely breathtaking. I was really, really shocked with how wonderful the tinting looked because usually this early stuff is a mess that never looks right. I used to defend films made a decade later for their rough shape but after viewing this film I'm going to have to reconsider. A perfect place for a Melies newbie to begin.

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MartinHafer
2011/07/21

As I have said in a few other reviews, films back before the beginning of the 20th century were pretty lame. The film makers simply didn't understand that so much more was possible and films were amazingly mundane. Folks sitting about playing cards, workers leaving the factory and children eating were the norm and films were seldom longer than about 30 seconds. So, when Georges Méliès created products like "The Hallucinated Alchemist", it stands head and shoulders above the rest.The film is gorgeous and is among the first to be hand-colored (a process that became a bit more common in the following decade). It gives it a luminous quality that will no doubt shock some viewers who never expected colors. The film consists of an alchemist sitting in front of a giant glass container as he dreams...and lots of crazy stuff appears inside the container. The only problems with the film is that there isn't a lot of plot otherwise and it ends abruptly--like it's missing the last few seconds of the film. But it looks amazing.

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boblipton
2010/02/25

If you think you've seen this Melies film on the 2010 DVD compilation of recently rediscovered Melies pieces..... well, I'm sorry to tell you that you haven't. It turns out that it is a nicely preserved and edited copy of Melies' 1906 short THE MYSTERIOUS RETORT that was misidentified.It's amazing that anything at all of Melies' work survives, given that he destroyed his remaining copies in despair more than ninety years ago, but they do occasionally turn up, as well as other films of similarly unlikely antiquity. So keep your eyes open at those garage sales and the contact number of a dedicated fan handy.Sorry about my continued rating of the movie, but I can't quite figure out how to remove it.

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