Benjamin Christensen's Häxan is one the most famous silent horrors and is inculcated as really the first folk horror film (at least feature) ever made. Like many hand crafted films of the time, especially early horror (such as Nosferatu), tinting was a part of the visual package. And like other silent horror films, later prints were often grainy, heavily edited and in blanched black and white. Until these films were lovingly restored and home media packages (such as high definition blu ray) made the originals more well known than the inferior copies often circulated in the 1960's and 1970's, the vibrant colors that they contained was largely unknown to all but the most hard core film affectianados. Christensen's masterpiece was deliberately bi-colored. Largely in earthy reds and darker blues: for hell scapes and night scapes. For Spooktober, here are just a few tinted stills from Häxan
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