Familiar stunts, but this grotto setting features not only stalactites, but some outer space-looking rectillinders. More than that, Méliès is really pulling out the stops and upping the ante with the special effects. He’s using a few stills now, and multiple superimpositions, distributed across different sections of the frame. There’s a close up, even, of a lovely smiling French lady. I note with pleasure that the eponymous magician is also the film’s director. My viewing companions and I were relieved to see that some demons show up at the end.