Häxan
Häxan had been on the list to watch for quite a while and I finally got around to it. It’s an interesting triple lens into history, both a view of the 1600s thoughts on witchcraft, how 1920s northern Europe viewed witchcraft in the 1600s, and to a degree how they viewed women in their contemporary sense.
Swedish theatrical release poster for Häxan, c/o Wikipedia.
Certainly, the work is less prudish than would be found in the states at the time period. Nudity and euphemisms both would have some conservatives today even clutching their pearls that this was presented as documentary.
Makeup, lighting, editing - honestly a lot of this is better done than many fount-footage films in the modern era. Even if some of the opinions (especially about hysteria at the end) are dated and even cringe, some expressions just hold up until the end of time.
The eternal and timeless, “dafuq?!”
