The film is split into seven pieces, each one showing a different aspect of witchdom as it relates to The Middle Ages. There is a lot to like: level headed descriptions of faith's structure of the universe, paintings and motion models of hell and and it's disciples as imagined, and scenes of the revelry and torture of suspected witches. Benjamin Christensen, the director, even shows up as the devil, decked out in horns, hair, and a wagging tongue. The only flaw is the ending, where witches are compared to "modern" women with dementia. But the peculiar ending can't mar the rest of the film that holds up well as a portrait of man's inhumanity to woman, it just shows that even a smart man had his head in the devil kissing position.
Review of Häxan
