-
Häxan Witchcraft Throughout the Ages Blu-Ray
Filmmaker Benjamin Christensen’s Haxan: Witchcraft Throughout the Ages is a stunning blend of fiction and documentary, perhaps the first “docu-drama” in the history of cinema. With superb cinematography, great sets and special effects, this 1922 silent film is “a witches’ brew of the scary, the gross, and the darkly humorous. Christensen’s mix-and-match approach to genre anticipates…
-
Sex in Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films
Since the dawn of cinema with films like Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), sex has been consistently infused with horror themes in movies, and before that, sex, whether implicit or explicit, has been a staple of many a great genre novel and short story. In comic books, long legged scantily clad…