
Häxan
A strange, unsettling essay of staged medieval horrors and grotesque tableaux, by turns creepy, grisly and wryly comic, demanding patience but rewarding it with unforgettable images.
- Directed by
- Benjamin Christensen
- Genres
- Documentary, Horror, History
- Starring
- Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld
- Tagline
- But isn’t superstition still rampant among us?
- Overview
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Benjamin Christensen
- Genres
- Documentary, Horror, History
- Starring
- Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld












