Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film employs a series of dramatic vignettes to investigate the scientific hypothesis that medieval witches suffered from the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. However, the picture is far from serious; rather, it is a witches' brew of the frightening, nasty, and darkly hilarious.
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Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film employs a series of dramatic vignettes to investigate the scientific hypothesis that medieval witches suffered from the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. However, the picture is far from serious; rather, it is a witches' brew of the frightening, nasty, and darkly hilarious.
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