"Whether as a unique feature of your annual Halloween video fest, or as an addition to the growing collection of silent classic restorations becoming available on DVD, there's plenty to enjoy in Criterion's Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages release. If your aim is to induce nightmares in small children, this is the disc you're looking for. As an exegesis on the damaging effects of superstition and religious distortion used as a pretext for harming others — sadly, a sickness still prevalent throughout the world today — this disc makes a fine companion to Carl Sagan's excellent treatise on pernicious fantasies both ancient and modern, The Demon-Haunted World."
Text: http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/h/haxan_cc.shtml
photograms: Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages
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