#HAGAZUSSA

[goryhorroor]

horror around the world: germany (1/10)

hagazussa (2017) directed by lukas feigelfeld

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[cronennerd]

Favorite first watches of October:

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), dir. Jaromil Jires

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973), dir. Richard Blackburn

Theatre of Blood (1973), dir. Douglas Hickox

Killer of Dolls (1975), dir. Miguel Madrid

The House by the Cemetery (1981), dir. Lucio Fulci

Mystics in Bali (1981), dir. H. Tjut Djalil

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002), dir. Guy Maddin

Hagazussa (2017), dir. Lukas Feigelfeld

In Fabric (2018), dir. Peter Strickland

Exhuma (2024), dir. Jang Jae-hyun

Lists of my 31 days of horror watches: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

[onlyhurtforaminute]

[anhed-nia]

NEXT WEEK on 3/14 the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is back at the illustrious Film Noir Cinema in Greenpoint with an event I'm super pumped about: Witchcraft & Media scholar Peg Aloi will analyze the presence of the Crone and Hag archetypes in popular culture. I personally requested this subject, and was thrilled that Peg agreed to do it. The Witch has long since been reclaimed as an avatar of female empowerment--particularly in the young, fashionable grrl power mode--but what about *witches of a certain age*? Recently, horror has seen a proliferation of images of frightful, predatory older women, drawing ambivalent reactions from audiences. Do these monstrous femmes always reflect a misogynistic attitude? Or might they sometimes suggest a return of the repressed, representing the special powers, wisdom, and righteous indignation of older women? I can't wait to hear what our guest will have to say, and I hope you'll join me next week to find out!

[faggy-dog]

HAPPY OCTOBER, it's the best time of year!! Starting today Sun 10/1 with GOOD MADAM, The Deadlights Theater has a month of movies about WITCHES!!! Join us for a:

BLACK SABBATH

If you'd like to join a discord of like-minded horror and genre freaks, check out Gretchen's patreon! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

[captaincolossal]

Hey, hi, my mom was here this week and we actually got a lot of work done and had some fun while she was here. I did make her watch Puss in Boots: the Last Wish (2022), because that is what I do now. But we actually didn't watch many movies while she was here, and I think the break was good.

Oh, anyway, she helped me organize my art and frames, and we framed several things (and now I actually have a list of frames I need, in my wallet, so I can actually do the thing and get my shit framed), and today I hung up a bunch of stuff. See, I've been doing art fairs for almost a decade and I have bought and traded for many cool things, and at last I have realized my dream of having a salon-style maximalist art wall above my desk. Currently 15 things on the wall, the theme is "things I like", which includes a signed WTNV tour poster, a bee themed pinup girl, a woodblock print of a dandelion, a Twin Peaks plush moth (her plush art moths go around tumblr every now and then and I'm like, oh, hey, that's my sort-of colleague Molly's work"), a drawing of an eyeball, lesbian mermaids, and not one, not two, but three items of my own making.

Hagazussa (2017)

Also, we'll see if this is a Double Feature Sunday. Undecided at the moment.

Oh, German winter folk horror.

[passion-of-arts]

Des Teufels Bad – Filmkritik

Mit „Des Teufels Bad“ läuft derzeit ein weiterer deutschsprachiger Historienfilm in den Kinos. Dieser behandelt mittels intensiver Bilder die Rolle von Frauen, Religion und psychischen Problemen im 18. Jahrhundert. Ob sich der Kinobesuch lohnt, erfahrt ihr in unserer Filmkritik.

[valentinsylve]

Have any of my moots/followers seen Hagazussa? I just finished it and I am reeling. I'm not going to give any trigger warnings/spoilers (same thing) for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it may have just become one of my best loved horror movies. My favorites are those which evoke pity, terror, disgust. This movie is quiet and shocking, set amidst the beauty of the Austrian Alps. There is very little dialogue. The atmosphere is simultaneously expansive and suffocating -- it's set in a mountain village, so of course. As a film concerning the particular terror of being a woman of a sort deemed unprotected (in this case, non-Christian, unmarried, and possibly queer), both reclusive and ostracized in a remote part of the world, it hits the spot. It felt real and properly bleak. If anyone wants to rattle on about it with me, feel free to dm me.

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Hagazussa, Dir. Lukas Feigelfeld (2017)

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HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN’S CURSE (2017)

“Hagazussa” is “Old High German” for “witch.”  Is this movie the Germanic world’s answer to “The Witch” (2015)?  No, it is not. I admit that's not a fair comparison, since I think "The Witch" is one of the best horror movies ever made.

Part One of "Hagazussa" is “SHADOWS.”  A young girl lives with her mother in the 15th century Alps.  They arrive home, and some dudes in outfits and horned masks harass them and call the woman a witch.  The next morning the girl wakes up, and there is blood on her sheets, because she’s started her period.  Also, mother catches the plague.  She gets worse and eventually calls the girl, named Albrun, into bed with her.  Mom sniffs her a bit and then…sexually assaults her.  She smears menstrual blood around and Albrun freaks out and flees the bed.  Mom roars a bit and runs out into the winter night.  The next morning Albrun finds her, dead, with some snakes.

Part Two is “HORN.”  Albrun is now a mature woman.  She has an infant daughter of her own.  She has some goats and takes goat milk down to the village, but some no-good teenagers harass her.  Luckily, a nice woman intervenes.  Albrun is summoned to see the local priest, and he seems to blame her for the “sacrileges” of the local villagers.  He gives Albrun her mother’s skull, which is painted rather nicely with flowers around the brow.  Albrun takes it home and sets it in the corner.  The nice woman from the village, Swinda, comes to visit, and Albrun seems happy to have a friend, ‘cuz she’s otherwise touching the goats…in an inappropriate manner.  However, Swinda sees the skull in the corner and quickly leaves.  Later, Albrun and Swinda sit in a field and look at the pretty mountains.  Swinda basically says, “we’re lucky that we don’t have any Jews or heathens here.”  Ok.  They go for a walk and meet a guy and they all sit together in another field.  Swinda rolls over and takes Albrun around the shoulders and says to Albrun, “it’s disgusting how you all stink, your rotten stench,” and then Swinda helps hold Albrun down as the man rapes her.  Later, Albrun rushes home.  Her child is fine, but all of her goats are gone, save for one that has been killed and mutilated.  Albrun desires revenge, so she takes a dead rat and throws into the spring where the villagers get their water, and she pisses on it, as well!

Part Three is “BLOOD.”  Albrun is walking around with her baby and sees lots of dead bodies being carted away from the village and burned.  I guess her biological warfare worked!  Albrun wanders into the forest and eats a mushroom.  She seems to be tripping out, because she’s looking at everything and touching everything in a trippy manner.  She eventually wanders into a swamp, and she drops her baby into the swamp and then doesn’t pick her back up.  The mushroom trip eventually ends and she crawls out of the swamp.

Part Four is “FIRE.”  Albrun goes back to her cottage and falls asleep, and snakes slither all over her!  She hears her mother’s voice and wakes up.  Albrun sees her dead child and throws it into the boiling soup!  She then eats the boiled dead baby!  Albrun vomits, and then her mushroom-induced trip hits again.  The walls flash green and she sees her mother in the corner!  Albrun runs out of the cabin and makes her way to the top of a mountain.  It’s a beautiful sight, but her eyes are clouded over.  She lays down, and as the sun rises she bursts into flame!

So, I’m a fan of “slow burn” movies like “The Witch” (2015) and “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” (2015), both of which are great movies, but this one, I think, burns a little too slowly.  A lot of scenes linger a bit too long, but there are also many that hit successfully.  In Part Two, Albrun is walking home through the forest, but she hears someone following her.  She pauses to stare at a clump of darkened trees, and maybe you see something as we focus on those trees and the entire scene turns black.  Also, anything with the painted skull.  The entire film is filled with beautiful images surrounding, not a witch, but a sad and lonely woman. She wanted a friend, but instead she got high and ate her baby.

[onlyhurtforaminute]

HAGAZUSSA-WINTERTRAUM

[p0is0ngirlfriend]

um damb she #boiledthatbaby and ate it 😮

[xenaisnumber1]

Getting F***** By Satan Is the Least Creepy Thing to Happen in This Movie - Hagazussa Reaction

https://youtu.be/dE4mjLQ5QqA