Haxan.
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2014.
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| Summary: | Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious,instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 87 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |