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Swedish cinema: Horror

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Benjamin Christensen

For hundreds, if not thousands of years, witches have predominated in folklore, these being the likely instigators of all the ills and mishaps that afflict mankind...   [More...]

Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Ingmar Bergman

A painter, Johan Borg, and his young wife Alma move into a small cottage on a remote island. Some time after their idyllic first weeks on the island, Alma notices a change in her husband...   [More...]

The Magician (1958)
Ingmar Bergman

The year is 1846. A troupe of travelling performers, the Magnetic Health Theatre, is making its way across Sweden. The troupe consists of Dr Vogler, a mute magician, his assistant (who is in truth his wife Manda), an elderly woman resembling a witch and Tubal, the show's talkative barker...   [More...]

The Parson's Widow (1920)
Carl Theodor Dreyer

In the 17th century, Söfren, a young seminary graduate, and Mari, his attractive fiancée, make their way across country to a little Norwegian village which is need of a new parson...   [More...]

The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Victor Sjöström

As she lies on her deathbed one New Year's eve, salvation army worker Edit insists that a man named David Holm be brought to her...   [More...]

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