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''Häxan'' (international title: ''Witchcraft Through The Ages''), directed by Benjamin Christensen, is a 1922 Swedish/Danish movie often noted as either one of the first modern documentaries, an early horror movie, or one of the first [[Exploitation Film|exploitation films]]. ▼
▲''[[Häxan]]'' (international title: ''Witchcraft Through The Ages''), directed by Benjamin Christensen, is a 1922 Swedish/Danish movie often noted as either one of the first modern documentaries, an early horror movie, or one of the first [[Exploitation Film|exploitation films]].
Ostensibly, it's a serious look at mediaeval superstition and the horriffic consequences thereof, and how we're not so very different today. It achieves this by showing etchings from mediaeval works about witchcraft, pictures of torture implements, and dramatised scenes of sorcery, black masses, inquisitions, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|modern psychiatry]], featuring plenty of [[Gorn]] and [[Fan Service]].▼
▲Ostensibly, it's a serious look at
The film is in the public domain and can be viewed [http://www.archive.org/details/Haxan_tinted_and_subtitled here].▼
▲The film is in the public domain and can be
Not to be confused with the [[First-Person Shooter]] ''[[Hexen]]''.
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* [[Burn the Witch]]: Well, duh.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]
* [[Eats Babies]]: One of the things believed to have happened at black masses.
* [[Fan Service]]: A surprising amount of nudity for a 1922 film.
** [[Fan Disservice]]: A surprising amount of nudity by older women and men being tortured or dressed up like demons.
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* [[Morton's Fork]]: The witch trials make heavy use of this.
* [[Not So Different]]:
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]
* [[Satan]]
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