Oct 26, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 10 segments
Scary Movie Month continues as Ian, Daniel, and Mylesexplore frights in far off places. This week on Cinema in Seconds we arediscussion foreign horror movies, jump on the ghost train and travel with…
Well, I can kick things off because we're going all the way back.
Like, older than 100 years to a movie called Hexan from Sweden and obviously since it came out in 1922 this is a silent movie and so that's why I said it's this is the one where it's subtitles of subtitles so obviously the the title cards are all in Swedish and then they just get subtitled um And Hexon is kind of a weird mix of like a fictional story, but also a documentary about the history of witchcraft.
It's quite intriguing.
I saw it last year for one of my October watches.
And to be honest, I was like, okay, I'll watch this because I was kind of expecting something like The Phantom Carriage, which is, you know, like an older movie that I was...
I was like, okay, this feels just like homework and I'm just watching it to say that I watched it.
But I found Hexan quite intriguing.
It's a...
There are parts that... are a little bit boring, but for the most part, there's some wild, wild imagery in here that I thought was really cool.
Um, yeah.
So it's talking about the history of witches and they have like these, which they show these witch trials, but they also have like the witch ceremonies that are really exaggerated and, and it's a fascinating film.
Um, um, What I wanted to talk about is actually the very end of the movie.
Because most of the movie is talking about...
It's like teaching you about religious times during...
Or religion during the times when witchcraft was a big thing, right? And when witches are really being persecuted.
It goes into their persecution.
It goes into the mythology of what witches... you know, do and things like that and paints them in like a really, you know, really evil light and everything.
But then in the last act of the movie, the interesting thing they start to do is they start to talk about modern times.
And again, when I say modern times, we're talking the 1920s.
It's not too modern anymore.
But nonetheless, they start talking about women in the modern times that are still persecuted, but in different ways.
If they act differently, if they're, if they're different from the societal norms, um, that are happening and, and, In the 1920s, I guess they called it hysteria.
These women were hysterical, right? And they would actually diagnose them as that.
When really it could be a plethora of different mental disorders or just complications in their life.
Anything that could set them apart and make them seem a little bit different.
Well, I can kick things off because we're going all the way back.
Like, older than 100 years to a movie called Hexan from Sweden and obviously since it came out in 1922 this is a silent movie and so that's why I said it's this is the one where it's subtitles of subtitles so obviously the the title cards are all in Swedish and then they just get subtitled um And Hexon is kind of a weird mix of like a fictional story, but also a documentary about the history of witchcraft.
It's quite intriguing.
I saw it last year for one of my October watches.
And to be honest, I was like, okay, I'll watch this because I was kind of expecting something like The Phantom Carriage, which is, you know, like an older movie that I was...
I was like, okay, this feels just like homework and I'm just watching it to say that I watched it.
But I found Hexan quite intriguing.
It's a...
There are parts that... are a little bit boring, but for the most part, there's some wild, wild imagery in here that I thought was really cool.
Um, yeah.
So it's talking about the history of witches and they have like these, which they show these witch trials, but they also have like the witch ceremonies that are really exaggerated and, and it's a fascinating film.
Um, um, What I wanted to talk about is actually the very end of the movie.
Because most of the movie is talking about...
It's like teaching you about religious times during...
Or religion during the times when witchcraft was a big thing, right? And when witches are really being persecuted.
It goes into their persecution.
It goes into the mythology of what witches... you know, do and things like that and paints them in like a really, you know, really evil light and everything.
But then in the last act of the movie, the interesting thing they start to do is they start to talk about modern times.
And again, when I say modern times, we're talking the 1920s.
It's not too modern anymore.
But nonetheless, they start talking about women in the modern times that are still persecuted, but in different ways.
If they act differently, if they're, if they're different from the societal norms, um, that are happening and, and, In the 1920s, I guess they called it hysteria.
These women were hysterical, right? And they would actually diagnose them as that.
When really it could be a plethora of different mental disorders or just complications in their life.
Anything that could set them apart and make them seem a little bit different.
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