Video essay

Carmella 2022-12-01 01:49:29

This is a "mixed movie", you can call it a documentary, a feature film, a horror film, or even a "video essay". Anyway, it can catch up with the above.
Judging from its era, the special effects scenes in the film are quite shocking. (For example, a scene where "witches" and "devils" "revel" in the forest).
However, what is interesting is that just because the "world of the devil and witch" is so "realistic", the film itself, which wants to promote "atheism", seems a bit embarrassing.
I think this is probably unexpected by the main creators of the film!


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Extended Reading

Häxan quotes

  • Chief Inquisitor: Listen, Maria the Weaver, did you also see the devil put his mark on the witches' foreheads?

    Marie, the Seamstress: Oh, learned men, I saw the witches kiss the evil one on his behind. And the mother of Anna, the printer's wife, wished me a scalding death - that damned woman, I saw her kissing the evil one so tenderly...

  • Narrator (1968 re-release): The "painful interrogation" preferably began with a "lighter" torture: the Thumb-screw, for example. One of my actresses insisted on trying the Thumb-screw when we shot these pictures. I will not reveal the terrible confessions I forced from the young lady in less than a minute.

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