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Showtime for VOC Silent Film Harmonic: Haxan playing Oct 29th, 2024 at 6:30 PM - Playhouse
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
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.
The VOC Silent Film Harmonic, under the direction of Ted Harms,... [ return to movie page ]
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