Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Haxan, the World's Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It

Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Haxan, the World's Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It
by Jack Stevenson

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Author: Jack Stevenson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03
ISBN: 1903254426
Number of pages: 127
Publisher: FAB Press

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Book Review: More than just the one film, this covers all of Christensen's work
Summary: 4 Stars

This slim (118 pages), well-illustrated books tells you everything you may ever want to know about the silent/sound Danish film director Benjamin Christensen, who acted in and/or directed about 20 films between 1912-1942.

He is best remembered for his 1922 film HAXAN (The Witch or Witchcraft Through The Ages) and this well-researched book includes interviews with those involved in the film, which is really amazing when you think how old and in some ways, obscure the film is.

The first 25 pages of the book focus on the early, pre-HAXAN years of the director/actor, while about 40 pages are devoted solely to the writing and production and casting/directing of HAXAN. The remaining 50 pages deal with the few films he made after HAXAN, his "invisible years" and the "return" of HAXAN during film festivals in the 1960s-1990s.

Author Jack Stevenson is to be commended for the time and attention to detail he paid for this classic film, and for digging up every photo and antidote about this film.
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Summary of Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Haxan, the World's Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It

Was Häxan, The Witch, the first and most perverse exploitation film, replete with Satanic debauchery, or the original classic of documentary cinema? Benjamin Christensen?s macabre 1922 masterpiece is the first true film maudit and the world?s first cult movie. This taboo-shattering work occupies an exclusive niche in the annals of horror cinema. Greeted by angry protests upon release, it was censored, banned and condemned everywhere. Even today, it is widely considered both the most morbid and perverse film ever made, as well as a sober, scientific and thoroughly human document. To Christensen it was the consuming obsession of his life, the film he was put on earth to make. It was a labour of love that would win him a kind of immortality that hung over the rest of his career like a dark shadow. Who was this mysterious man, Benjamin Christensen, and what really drove him to create this extraordinary epic? Delving into the original Danish source material, author Jack Stevenson places Häxan within the context of Christensen?s wider career, and also within the context of the times. Amazingly, many of the issues that embroiled this film upon its release are still being hotly debated today.

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