The Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Original title: Häxan
But isn’t superstition still rampant among us?
- Genre: Dokumentär · Skräck · Historisk
- Country: Sweden
- Runtime: 106 min
- Rated: 15
- Released: 1922-09-18
- TMDB rating: 7.6 / 10 (448)
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.
- Director: Benjamin Christensen
- Writer: Benjamin Christensen
- Music: Launy Grøndahl
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