Häxan

(1922)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 449 votes

Genres: Documentary, Horror, History

Year: 1922

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: Sweden

Director: Бенжамин Кристенсен

Cast: Бенжамин Кристенсен, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld, Kate Fabian, Oscar Stribolt, Wilhelmine Henriksen, Elisabeth Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther, Maren Pedersen

Plot

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.