#Witchhammer

[goryhorroor]

horror symbols: crucifixes

In horror movies, crosses are often used as protective charms or magical weapons against supernatural enemies, but in horror movies critiquing catholicism, it could relate to a character a tramua of theirs and what is being used to scare them.

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Sona Valentova in Witchhammer (1970)

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𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔥𝔞𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯 - 𝔏𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔚𝔞𝔯

[misforgotten2]

The Story Hemmingway Should Have Written.

"For sale: suicide note, never used."

©2023 Witchhammer

[freakshowpuppet]

Witchhammer (1970)  - Directed by Otakar Vávra

[soulsanitarium]

Czech 🇨🇿 Kladivo na čarodějnice (Witchhammer) Dir. Otakar Vávra (1970)

Adaptation of Kaplický's novel of the same name about the Northern Moravia trials. It is drawing from original historical documents.

In the 1670s in Moravia, an altar boy observes an old woman hiding the bread given out during communion. He alerts the priest, who confronts the old woman.🐄 Marina Schuchová has stolen a consecrated wafer with the intention to give it to a cow in order to make it yield more milk (so she was guilty🤔)

She admits that she took the bread with the intent to give it to a cow to re-enable its milk production. The priest reports the incident to the owner of the local estate who, in turn, calls in an inquisitor, a judge specializing in witchcraft trials. Judge Jindřich František Boblig z Edelstadtu. He is portrayed as a ruthless inquisitor summoned to root out witchcraft.

✝️Stereotypes of witchcraft, typical Sabbath stories, such as the contract with Satan, were already present in earlier trials held in Silesia by Judge Boblig z Edelstadtu, who now unleashed controlled persecution of inhabitants of the estate of Velké Losiny.

🔥By applying hard pressure and subsequently 

also torture, Boblig forced the

women and men not only to plead guilty 

but also to name their alleged accomplices. He triggered off a domino effect.

What was quite exceptional in this historical case was that judge/lawyer Boblig sought mainly the Conviction of local wealthy burghers.💰

🧹This film is very provocative, but it also offers a bit of a view of the layers of society and political motives. Indeed, the film is considered an allegory for the Stalin’s political show trials. 👀Just like Miller’s The Crucible used the past to mirror McCarthyism in 1950s 🇺🇸, so here Witchhammer inevitably refers to the Stalinist show-trials that plagued 1950s Czechoslovakia.

👁Also this film offers voyerism, guilty pleasures for the viewers. Psychoanalytic film theory has dealt with the subject from the perspectives of both sadism and masochism. Our capacity for empathy allows identification with both the torturer and the tortured.

📖In the Bible Pilate 'washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person'. This is an ideology but did he washed his hands also of the responsibility?

Click The video to Hear The sounds of this Film

🚻The juxtaposition of men and women often displaces hidden themes in the film. The culprit may be, for example, a Catholic church, leaders, etc. In this film a deacon Lautner’s martyrdom, is clearly an analogy of Christ🧔‍♀️

Thing that bothered me throughout the film was certain indicative ⚫️&🏳presentation. It was the authorities themselves which, in an effort to stop the economic decline of the estates in their jurisdiction caused by the witch trials, finally put a stop to the rampages of the energetic old judge. Before that more than 100 were executed.

Source:

Krištofová, Tereza 2009. Severomoravské čarodějnické procesy s přihlédnutím na vývoj čarodějnických pověr. Bachelors thesis. Institute of Czech History. Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta. English abstract.

[amazingmrcinema007]

Anytime this one priest in Witchhamer shows up, I can't help but feel amused at how much he looks like Michael C. Hall in a wig. Like, what are you doing in a 1970 Czech film about the Northern Moravia witch trials in the 1670s, Mr. Hall?

[unorthodoxchurch778]

This is one of the series of things I watch to question all of humanity and how privileged I am to be born in current times. Whenever someone says they want to live a medieval life with romanticization, recommend this movie.

[cinemaquiles]

CINCO CLÁSSICOS DA REPÚBLICA TCHECA QUE VOCÊ PRECISA CONHECER! 

[dyouknowwhatimean]

kladivo na čarodějnice (1970) dir. otakar vávra alternative poster

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Witchhammer (1970)

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A.M.S.G. "Hostis Universi Generis" LP 2016 ('...Dreadnaught titans of the end. Now there is nothing. So we become nothingness. Ouroboros has devoured itself. The swastika has stopped swirling. The event horizon has consumed itself in the final act...')

"For all its arrogance and purported grandeur, the cosmos as it exists in this incarnation is but a failed experiment, put into motion by an inept creator whose very existence is a reflection of incompetence. Let this work be a solemn call for a return to nothingness. Agios Lucifer. Hostis Humani Generis. So mote it be."

Hostis Universi Generis | A.M.S.G. | Inferna Profundus Records (bandcamp.com)

[goryhorroor]

Do you have any folk horror recs for someone who’s just getting into horror? Midsommar’s the only one I’ve seen and I loved it

blood on satan’s claw, the conquerors worm, haxan, viy, eve’s bayou, witchhammer, the devil rides out, the white reindeer, captain clegg, robin redbreast, marketa lazarova, the city of the dead, tumbbad, a field in england, the ritual, onibaba, kwaidan, apostle, picnic at hanging rock, kuroneko, the wicker man, and the wailing!

[befickleforever]

If you liked [inside no 9 episode] watch [film] : a guide. Part 1

(Some of these films go off vibes alone, whilst others are the films that directly inspired the episode. For example, we all know where the wicker man will be included)

If you liked ‘Simon Says’, consider:

- Misery (1990). After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his biggest fan.

- Sunset Boulevard (1950). An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback.

- Perfect Blue (1997). A young Japanese singer is encouraged by her agent to quit singing and pursue an acting career, beginning with a role in a murder mystery TV show.

- The King of Comedy (1982). Rupert Pupkin is a failure in life but a celebrity in his own mind, hosting an imaginary talk show in his mother's basement.

- The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011). Martin, a mentally disturbed loner that obsesses over the film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), kidnaps a group of people to create his own 'human centipede' to act out his perverse sexual fantasies.

If you liked ‘The Understudy’ consider:

- Sleuth (1972). This mystery finds Andrew Wyke, a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover, Milo Tindle, a middle-class hair salon-owner.

- Richard III (1995). A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness.

- Throne of Blood (1957). Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures.

- Theatre of Blood (1973). After an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, Lionheart sets out to murder all of his critics, each with a different style of death taken from a Shakespeare play.

If you liked ‘The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge’ consider:

- Witchhammer (1970). When a beggar is caught hiding her communion wafer, the hunt for witches begins.

- The Witch (2015). In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly vanishes.

- Witchfinder General (1968). When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.

If you liked ‘The Harrowing’ consider:

- Carry on Screaming! (1966). An investigation into the disappearance of several young women leads two bumbling Victorian detectives to the home of Dr Watt and his vampish sister Valeria.

- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). Residents of a worn-down Iranian city encounter a skateboarding vampire who preys on men who disrespect women.

If you liked ‘Mr King’ consider:

- The Wicker Man (1973). Sergeant Howie arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child.

- In The Earth (2021). A scientist and park scout conduct a routine experiment while the world looks for a cure to a lethal virus and as the night progresses, they experience unexplainable things.

- Midsommar (2019). Dani's psychological trauma affects her relationship with Christian, her lover. However, when they visit their friend's ancestral commune in an effort to mend things, it changes their lives forever.

- The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). Ralph Gower and a local judge are on a quest to get a bunch of possessed kids with a strange fur on their skin under control after they end up killing the locals.

[freakshowpuppet]

Witchhammer (1970)  - Directed by Otakar Vávra