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Häxan (The Witches)
Description
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious– instead it’s a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious– instead it’s a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Actors:
Ib Schønberg,
Ella La Cour,
Emmy Schønfeld,
Knud Rassow,
Aage Hertel,
Else Vermehren,
Poul Reumert
Ib Schønberg
Ella La Cour
Emmy Schønfeld
Knud Rassow
Aage Hertel
Else Vermehren
Poul Reumert
Genre:
Horror, Fantasy, Documentary
Director:
Benjamin Christensen
Keywords:
#Benjamin Christensen #Benjamin Christensen #Clara Pontoppidan #Elith Pio #Else Vermehren #Häxan #Häxan (The Witches) #John Andersen #Karen Winther #Kate Fabian #La sorcellerie à travers les ages (1922) #Maren Pedersen #Oscar Stribolt #Poul Reumert #Tora Teje
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March 05, 2002
The film stands as a fascinating historical document, and, more surprisingly, as a thoroughly watchable film.
May 07, 2003
One of the earliest films that takes misogyny and sexual repression as its subject.
January 26, 2006
A weird and rather wonderful brew of fiction, documentary and animation based on 15th and 16th century witchcraft trials, Christensen's film has a remarkable visual flair that takes in Bosch, Breughel and Goya.
February 28, 2002
Viewers who think "silent" films are boring and primitive would do well to start with this one as an example of how advanced they really were.
September 25, 2007
In fact Haxan is a deeply rationalistic piece of humanism, exposing the horrors of superstition and hysteria rather than of witchcraft itself.
Lawrence Journal-World
June 07, 2003
The sophistication of these 1920 special effects are hard to believe
May 16, 2008
Swedish and Danish pictures easily hold the palm for morbid realism and in many cases for brilliant acting and production.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
August 21, 2002
Fascinating pioneering horror
May 26, 2006
Begins as a documentary about witches but turns into a real, honest-to-goodness horror film with scary images of witches, devils, evil spells, etc.
July 12, 2002
Before you think the filmmaker is one sick dude, he also develops scenarios to show how innocent women are deceived and trapped into witch accusations...
August 15, 2007
A silent curiosity made in Denmark in 1922, with an episodic, rhetorical structure that would have appealed to Jean-Luc Godard.
April 08, 2006
Ostensibly an exposé of religious persecution born from ignorance of science ... or, when filtered through the bong water of the psychedelic '60s to become Witchcraft Through the Ages, a trippy exercise in surreal pop filmmaking extravagance.