CULT MOVIE: HAXAN(1922)

Eighty years on, Christensen's use of real life, animation and dramatic sequences for his disturbing documentary about witchcraft through the ages has lost none of its ability to shock. His silent scenes of demonically possesed nuns and friars--and the tortures which they were forced to suffer to extract sorcery confessions--are  made more upsetting by the fear-filled expressions of the actors. Elsewhere, his re-enactment of a witces' sabbat and the horrors surrounding it, gives you the uneasy feeling that the Danish director could have been present at such events in real life.
Director: Benjamin Christensen Cast: Maren Pedersen, Oscar Stribolt

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