this be a cute little french silent comedy about a man who bet another that he can not stay in this castle for one hour due to it be haunt . and and once the guy enter the house and it look much more like a crazed fun house or maybe like the after effect of lsd . while there be ghost and skeleton and there be a weird menagerie of animal and odd special effect and gag as well . it awfully hard to describe but the visuals alone make the film worth see . however and understand that the self indulgent director also have many funny gag that totally fell flat and hurt the movie . his camera trick weren not so much tricky but annoy and stupid . ignore these and keep watch it do get well . the film be fast paced and funny and worth see . in particular and i really liked watch the acting and mugging of max linder he be so expressive and funny . too bad he be virtually forget today . for an interesting but very sad read and check out the imdb biography on him .