Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) - Criterion Collection
by Benjamin Christensen
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Actor: Benjamin Christensen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elisabeth Christensen, Elith Pio, Maren PedersenDirector: Benjamin Christensen
Writer: Benjamin Christensen
Cinematographer: Johan Ankerstjerne
Editor: Edla Hansen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Swedish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Swedish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Studio: Criterion Collection, The
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Movie Review: H?xan
Summary: 4 Stars
THough this movie is 80+ year old it is one of the best protrayals of witches I've seen. The acting is really quite corny, but how the events are shown is pretty uch in tune with what historians agree actually happened. Witches are not normally the sexy seductress, but instead were the ugly crones who have no way to defend themselves. The inquisition stepped in to help bring about confessions, and without basic civil legal rights, the condemned was usually convicted through confessions.
This movie shows the whole gamut of events. The sick child, the succubus, the trials, the temptations, and the trials. There are no real special effects, but it kind of amazes me that no other film has attempted to cover this same subject as this film does. It's a rare find, but worth the time spent watching it.
Summary of Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) - Criterion Collection
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. The Criterion Collection is proud to present two versions of this genre-defying "documentary," for the first time ever on DVD.Witchcraft through the ages is explored with dark wit in this silent classic. Writer-director Benjamin Christensen uses a historical study of witchcraft as a jumping-off point for a fascinating film that is part science, part horror, and part social commentary. This Criterion edition uses a beautiful print, a rearrangement of music from the original Danish premiere, and the original Swedish intertitles (with subtitles). Goodies include commentary by Danish film scholar Casper Tybjerg, the option of watching a narrated version without intertitles, and test shots from the film. The test shots, in particular, give insight into the early filmmaking process, as when Christensen uses his own image to try out (and reject) a flying effect. This is a worthy edition to the collection of fans of horror films, silent films, and film in general. --Ali Davis
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