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Glyn Smith

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Cough | Ritual Abuse (2010)

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The Irrepassable Gate (2016) by Glyn Smyth (Stag & Serpent)

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Häxan will be released on Blu-ray on October 14 via The Criterion Collection. The 1922 Swedish-Danish silent film is presented as a documentary but contains nightmarish dramatizations worthy of a horror film.

Also known as Witchcraft Through the Ages, the film is written and directed by Benjamin Christensen (Seven Footprints to Satan). He also stars alongside Clara Pontoppidan, Oscar Stribolt, Astrid Holm, and Maren Pedersen.

Haxan has been digitally restored in 2K. The original Danish score, arranged by film music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra in 2001, is presented in 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio.

The film features with newly-translated English intertitles. Glyn Smith designed the cover art. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

2001 audio commentary by film scholar Casper Tybjerg

Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968) - 76-minute version of the film, narrated by author William S. Burroughs with a soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty

Director Benjamin Christensen’s introduction to the 1941 re-release

Outtakes

Bibliothèque Diabolique: a photographic exploration of Christensen’s historical sources

Booklet featuring an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, remarks on the score by film music specialist Gillian Anderson, and an essay by scholar Chloé Germaine Buckley

Grave 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.

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Glyn Smith (Stag & Serpent), Charon

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Glyn Smith (Stag & Serpent), Charon

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'Quatermass And The Pit' by Glyn Smith, a new print release through The Flood Gallery. 20" x 29.75" 2 colour screen print on 100# cougar natural paper, available in a numbered Regular edition of 50 for £45 and a numbered Variant edition on silver foil of 10 for £60. Both prints come with a signed certificate of authenticity. On sale Thursday February 9 at 5pm UK. Go here to buy.