Review of The Arrival of a Train at Station

The World's First Horror Movie

While tame for today's audiences, The Arrival of a Train at Station may have been the scariest movie ever made. Audiences viewing the film on original release in 1895 where so overwhelmed by the site of a life size training coming directly at them, they fled the the theater screaming in panic that the train was going to run them over.

The film's use of long, medium and close up shots help demonstrate this effect, but today's advanced 3-D technology makes it seem outdated.

Regardless, modern movie viewers should still still enjoy The Arrival of a Train, at Station and witness one of the earliest examples of the power of cinema.

7/10

Added by Michael M 1 year ago
on 7 October 2011 18:49

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