{"product_id":"haxan-blu-ray","title":"Häxan Blu-Ray","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Far from a dry dissertation on the topic, the film itself is a witches’ brew of the scary, the gross, and the darkly humorous. Christensen’s mix-and-match approach to genre anticipates gothic horror, documentary re-creation, and the essay film, making for an experience unlike anything else in the history of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003cbr\u003e\n• New 2K digital restoration\u003cbr\u003e\n• Music from the original Danish premiere, arranged by film-music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra in 2001, presented in 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio\u003cbr\u003e\n• Audio commentary from 2001 featuring film scholar Casper Tybjerg\u003cbr\u003e\n• Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), the seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, narrated by author William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty\u003cbr\u003e\n• Director Benjamin Christensen’s introduction to the 1941 rerelease\u003cbr\u003e\n• Short selection of outtakes\u003cbr\u003e\n• Bibliothèque Diabolique: a photographic exploration of Christensen’s historical sources\u003cbr\u003e\n• PLUS: Essays by critic Chris Fujiwara and scholar Chloé Germaine Buckley, as well as remarks on the score by Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinema Cellar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41779950125141,"sku":"CC3076BD","price":32.39,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3032\/6613\/files\/haxan-134_bd_vtcwjawwe2dyzbst.jpg?v=1764618627","url":"https:\/\/cinemacellar.com\/products\/haxan-blu-ray","provider":"Cinema Cellar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}