Treadwell’s Horror Movie Night - Häxan

Treadwell’s is delighted to announce the Treadwell’s Horror Season!

We are screening an occult horror film every Wednesday in October, with an expert speaker to introduce each film. Free drink on arrival, laughter, scares, socialising and fun are all promised.

Häxan

Director: Benjamin Christensen

Country: Sweden

Year: 1922

Runtime: 105 minutes

Cast: Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour

Supposedly intended as a moral education tool, Häxan instead is ripe, bawdy, and more than likely to give you sympathy for the devil. Director Benjamin Christiansen took the Malleus Maleficarum – the medieval witch finder’s handbook – and made a documentary on witches. Having it deliciously both ways, Christiansen’s film gives us incubuses seducing maidens, medieval torture devices and witches’ sabbaths, while also unpacking the myth of the witch as a tool of oppression.

Full of sumptuous recreations – in brilliant red and blue filters – of witch burnings, goblin parties and ostentatious devilry, on its release Häxan was the most expensive Swedish film yet made. A phantasmagoria worthy of William Blake or Albrecht Durer, it’s guaranteed to make you look askance at a church gargoyle and see silent film in a new light.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VVq73xKoY

Haxan will be introduced by Gary Parsons in person, who is a filmmaker and an MA film graduate from Goldsmiths College London. He has been interviewed for both Dazed and Hero magazines. He has spoken on ‘Witchcraft Documentaries of the 1970s, and Crowley on Film;' we are delighted to welcome him back to Treadwell's.

Other Treadwell’s Horror Movie Nights:

The Blood on Satan's Claw - Wednesday 5th October 

Haxan - Wednesday 12th October

The Bloodettes - Wednesday 19th October 

Night of the Living Dead - Wednesday 26th October