Benjamin Christensen
Djævlen/The Devil
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4 days ago · Behold the Weird Glory of Häxan, A Wild 1922 Film About Witchcraft. The ground-breaking documentary blended academic research with salacious scenes of torture and nudity. Censors weren’t having ...
Sep 28, 2022 · Why documentary horror Häxan still terrifies, a century on. 28 September 2022. By Adam Scovell,Features correspondent. Alamy. As it turns 100, this utterly chilling silent film deserves more ...
Häxan. Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages and early modern era suffered from the same ills as psychiatric patients diagnosed with hysteria in the film's own time.
Oct 29, 2022. Oct 8, 2020. A hybrid of documentary and fiction, this silent film explores the history of witchcraft, demonology and satanism. It shows representations of evil in a variety of ...
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Häxan is the rare horror-infused narrative with an empathetic intent. The pages of the Maleficarum had provided artists, poets, and playwrights a compendium from which they could flesh out their depictions of witches—from the poetry and watercolors of William Blake and Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the fantastical paintings of Francisco Goya ...
Häxan. Directed by Benjamin Christensen • 1922 • Denmark. 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-o...
Oct 20, 2022 · Häxan: the silent-era witchcraft film at 100. What witches do – and what’s done to suspected witches – is given sensational treatment in Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 silent film Häxan. A century later, it’s disturbing for even more reasons. 20 October 2022. By Kelly Robinson.
