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Vampyr
Why this pick
Dreyer turns folklore into a drifting, near-silent nightmare, using shadowy tableaux and fractured perception that echo Häxan’s uncanny visual spell.
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Why this pick
Its austere silent-era imagery and intense focus on accusation, religious authority, and female persecution make a powerful companion to Häxan’s historical anxieties.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Why this pick
A landmark of silent horror whose painted, distorted world and unsettling frame-like structure share Häxan’s taste for theatrical, psychologically charged imagery.
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The White Reindeer
Why this pick
This stark Finnish folk-horror fable brings witchcraft and transformation into a wintry, mythic landscape with the same grave, ethnographic-feeling strangeness.
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Day of Wrath
Why this pick
A severe, emotionally controlled drama of witch trials and repression, approaching the subject with the moral seriousness beneath Häxan’s fantastical visions.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
John Andersen
Chief Inquisitor