Häxan

7.6

Denmark

Documentary Horror History

105 min

1922

Alice O'Fredericks Karen Caspersen Henry Seemann Frederik Christensen Ellen Rassow Albrecht Schmidt Poul Reumert Tora Teje Karina Bell Gerda Madsen Benjamin Christensen Clara Pontoppidan Ib Schønberg Aage Hertel Elith Pio Karen Winther Astrid Holm Oscar Stribolt Kate Fabian Ella La Cour

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.