Leave a Comment | Posted by Sandy McIlree on October 31, 2007
48 second Horror Film
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“Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat”, a French film from 1896. And it’s nothing more than a 48-second film of a train arriving at a station.
–What makes it a horror movie. . . and possibly the FIRST horror movie EVER. . . is the fact that when audiences in Paris first watched it, they didn’t quite get the whole concept of “moving pictures”.
–In fact, they were TERRIFIED, because it looked like the train was coming at them. According to legend, many even RAN SCREAMING from the theater

