If you’re throwing a Halloween party tonight or sometime this weekend, Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 silent masterpiece Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages is the perfect movie to play in the background.Häxan is a spooky black, red, blue and white mix of documentary footage. It features animated sequences and dramatised fiction with pretty piano accompaniment and subtitles over scenes of nudity and torture, possessed nuns that writhe and stick out their tongues, frolicing, grave-robbing witches, and Christensen himself, who plays the Devil and harasses a bunch of monks. The possibilities for drunk narration are endless.
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