Sweet maria. What the hell did I just watch? Attempting to equate witchcraft of the past with modern day psychological disorders but via a crazy story of witch craft with re-enacted scenes of the most bizarre and strange kind. Benjamin Christensen's strange documentary at times makes use of real documents such as plates from various books on witchcraft and at times uses actors and sets to show either the fear and paranoia of earlier ages or the nature of witch craft practices.
It is at times bizarre, at times strangely comical and at times down right confounding. Most mesmerizing are those scenes of witch ritual often with Christensen himself parading around as Satan and the strangest things occurring. Favorite moment: a skeletal horse walks past the frame and then back again in the background. If you want to see an early experience in crazy cult film style film making, this one tops the list.
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