Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

morrison-dylan-fan After catching landmark A Trip To The Moon,I found myself struggling to decide on what other work from Georges Méliès I should take a look at.Reading reviews from a fellow IMDber,I stumbled upon an excellent one for a Méliès movie I've not heard of before,which led to me getting ready to find out how devilish the tenant could be.The plot:Moving in to a new apartment with his bags,a man agrees on when to make the rent payment.Left on his own,the man pulls out furniture and his own family from the bag! Settling down in the apartment,the man suddenly remembers that the rent is overdue.View on the film:Displaying less of the literary ambitions of Moon,the screenplay by Méliès takes a minimalist approach in order to give the movie a clean setup which does not overshadow any of the visuals on offer.Mostly staying in one room, Méliès takes advantage of the minimal set-up to deliver constantly striking in-camera special effects,which still pack a punch of awe and wonder.Keeping events rolling in long takes, Méliès cleverly uses the dashes of smoke and ruby colours offered in colour tinting to cast a magic circle atmosphere over the tenant's devilish stay

Red-Barracuda This latter day George Méliès film is basically another of his trick shorts. In it a man moves into an unfurnished room and proceeds to decorate it with a selection of furniture and family members which he improbably pulls out of a small bag. Like all of the director's inventive shorts it's very well presented. And fully colour tinted as well, which is a great bonus. The special effects are simple yet effective and carefully rendered. Like other Méliès features it has a good sense of humour too. However, when you take into account the more elaborate narrative features that Méliès had already produced several years before, such as A Trip to the Moon and Kingdom of the Fairies, this does seem like quite regressive. Maybe it indicates why this famous innovator's career never really evolved any further, as he seemed to be essentially still making the same sort of films at a time of great change and evolution in the cinematic medium in general. A great shame, as he was easily the greatest presence in cinema in first decade of its existence. That said, this is still a very fun flick and one that is still a lot more fun to watch than most others from the time.

Michael_Elliott Devilish Tenant, The (1909) aka Locataire diabolique, Le *** (out of 4)Georges Melies film about a man who rents an apartment and furnishes the entire thing with one box. It's easy to see how the trickery was done in this film but that doesn't take away from the fun. The real highlight is the wonderful ending of how the man finally gets rid of everything.In early 2008 a box set with over 170 Meiles films will be released and it's certainly long overdue.

Snow Leopard This colorful and creative Georges Méliès feature takes a basic gag idea and uses it as the basis for several minutes of interesting and entertaining camera tricks. It is also one of the few surviving Méliès movies that have hand-tinted color, and while the color of the print has now somewhat faded, it still looks good enough to enhance the overall effect.The story starts with a man renting an unfurnished room, and then most of it is simply a wide variety of visual effects as the tenant furnishes his new apartment with things that he amazingly pulls out of a carpetbag. It's interesting and very detailed, and if you've ever seen "Mary Poppins", the basic effect is remarkably similar to the scene in which Mary moves into the Banks home and furnishes her room. The special effects in Méliès's movie are not as polished, but on the other hand it gets even more mileage out of the idea.This feature was made somewhat later than were most of Méliès's best-known movies, but it's easily one of the finest efforts of his later years as a film-maker. It takes one basic idea and makes it into an interesting and imaginative film.