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.

• DirectorBenjamin Christensen
• Release18 September 1922
• Genre
  Documentary / Horror
• Duration1h 45m
• Budget$220,000
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.6
  392 reviews
• Productions

  Aljosha Production Company, SF Studios