brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It's certainly difficult to make a silent, black-and-white movie about a title character that already has a color in his name. And I have to say Méliès did not fail entirely in his attempt here, but it's still not a really good achievement by any means in my opinion. There was so much going on all the time on the screen in this one that it was actually difficult to follow and only understand the very basic elements of what exactly was happening. This film runs for almost 10 minutes, which was fairly long for that era, but not entirely uncommon for Méliès whose films became longer and longer by 1901. All in all, still I have to say I was not really impressed watching this and I hoped it would be better looking at its IMDb-rating. Not recommended.

Arguably, the first bona-fide horror film ever made. The scene where the wife goes to the cellar and finds the hanged bodies of the previous wives is genuinely chilling, and the eerie dream scene is very well done.There is really no exaggerating of Georges Méliès' importance in the history of cinema, inventor of special effects, an early expressionist before expressionism even officially existed, a wizard creator of magical worlds, a canny surrealist a full two decades before surrealism was even born, a trickster and relentless comedian that knows no bounds: more than an innovator, Méliès is a genius.

Bluebeard (1901) aka Barbe-bleue ** 1/2 (out of 4) An interesting if not totally successful film from Georges Melies. After seven wives have mysterious died, Bluebeard holds a contest to pick his eighth wife. Things are going as planned until the ghosts of the seven previous wives show up. This here is certainly a horror film from start to finish but it's a shame the film gets off to such a weak start. The ending, with the wives returning, is very well done.In early 2008 a box set with over 170 Meiles films will be released and it's certainly long overdue.

this movie has great backgrounds from the castle,the greatest moment is a real horror moment when the woman goes into the forbidden room and finds the hanged 7 ladies all former wives of bluebeard,another great moment is when the woman sleeps and dreams when the ghosts of the 7 dead wives and the dancing keys appears.