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The Stunner Last Login: 12/20/09

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Diabolique (1954)
 
 
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OH MY GOD! You absolutely MUST see this movie! I'm simply out of words to describe it. One of the biggest surprises I've ever encountered in my collection.This is a... More

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The Dark Knight (2008)
 
 
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I saw this when it came out, a year and some months ago, and I remember I didn't like it that much. But I was thinking "well, maybe this time I'll enjoy it more and it... More

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Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1920)
 
 
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Posted on 9/27/09 at 5:55 PM | Last edited on 11/25/09 at 2:24 PM

This may sound a bit weird, but the movie I found most scary is "Shadows And Fog", a movie by Woody Allen. I don't really get frightened by the assumed horror genre, although I die over the suspense those movies feature; I just don't get scared because that's expected. But "Shadows And Fog" is very good on that level since it's not supposed to be a horror movie. The black and white photography that pictures a city haunted by a shady killer is a stunner. But "Shadows And Fog" isn't the scariest movie anymore for me.
That's "Haxan", now, a silent movie. It basically is about how witchcraft was perceived in the medieval times. In the middle ages, the supposed witches were tortured with some seemingly very effective instruments. We don't see the torture, but we see the instruments on the bodies about to be tortured. Well, imagination is a powerful medium and that's what makes this so frightening, mainly because I felt myself imagining what it would be like if it were happening to me and what really happened to those women 500 years ago.
As a piece of cinematic art, it achieves some incredible innovative special effects, that puts some movies like Star Wars to shame, and inventive editing techniques. It works as a documentary and a story (a docufiction, I guess), and also as a thesis, considering it tries to explain by modern and scientific standards what could have been witchcraft. There are also some bits with very dark humour.
The final message states that it's all alright now and that nobody anymore is accused without proof of witchcraft and that it is already gone from our lives.
Or is it...?

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sherry9lee on 10/28/09 at 11:54 AM

Haxan is very entertaining! I presume you too are into the 1001 movies you must see before you die- thing. And so am I! How many so far?

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The Stunner on 10/28/09 at 12:52 PM

i've seen a some hundreds. but it's great! isn't it? i mean, there's no better way to see the most important movies ever if you are a true movie fan. i can't wait to watch the last one.

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