Häxan

Do y'all know how funny it is to have someone walk behind you, and having to explain you're watching a silent Swedish documentary about witchcraft?

dselwyns

A purported clinical documentary on witchcraft and satanism drawn almost entirely in unhinged expressionist horror images including foggy subterranean lairs, women giving birth to hairy horned beasts, moody nighttime broomstick rides, and general hysteria/torture that…

Josh Lewis

"Oh, you learned men!" For some reason I always thought this was a hysterical reactionary relic about the occult, but it's actually the exact opposite of that, a reason-oriented look at the phenomenon of witch hunts that even finds room for a little bit of wry humor…

Joe

the drawing of the witch kissing the devil's butt is everything to me

amaya (spooky mode)

This movie is 50% historical documentary, 50% surrealist horror, and 100% the horniest movie ever made.

Paul Thomas

basically just a list of things that rock

David Sims

Häxan is also known as Witchcraft Through the Ages, and is extremely informative! it is a cinematography innovation with absurd combinations of a horror never before explored with a documentary style. The film contains a detailed but also a little imaginative exploration of…

noen

This movie SLAPS! Seriously, like what a fun movie. I love the little devil guys that wiggle their tongues and the weird witches going around cursing people. This movie feels super punk like 60 years early. The acknowledgement of the role the devil still plays in "modern…

Ethan Colburn

An avant-garde, heartfelt feminist documentary in 1922 is such a ballsy move in itself. Häxan, an experimental retelling of women's suffering throughout history, is as bizarre as it is humanistic and is deserving of its place in cinema history. Divided into 7 chapters,…

nick