Häxan (1922)
"But isn’t superstition still rampant among us?"
ThumbScore
👍 90%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 93%
(RT: 93%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Benjamin Christensen as Devil
Ella La Cour as Karna / Sorceress
Emmy Schønfeld as Karna's Assistant
Kate Fabian as Old Maid
Oscar Stribolt as Fat Monk
Wilhelmine Henriksen as Apelone / A Poor Old Woman
Elisabeth Christensen as Anna's Mother
Astrid Holm as Anna
Is Häxan good?
Yes. 90% audience score, estimated from 462 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 93%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
Overview
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary 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. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous. Wikipedia ↗
