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In this episode of The Movie Loot, me and filmmaker Todd Sullivan share our long overdue loot of werewolves, witches, demons, bad couples, and bad films. It took us a while, but here it is. Check it out!

00:00:00 - 00:01:54 -- Intro
00:01:54 - 00:14:46 -- Meet Todd!
00:14:46 - 01:04:28 -- The November Loot
01:04:28 - 01:08:28 -- Closing
01:08:28 - 01:10:18 -- Outro

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This week on Remainders, we take a look at witchcraft and satanic orgies with the 1922 silent film classic Haxan, or Witchcraft Through the Ages. As we settle into our favorite October horror movies, Haxan is largely where it all started. Part historical document on witchcraft in the Middle Ages, part fictionalized account of how Satan and his wild tongue seduced women to witchcraft, ALL horror insanity. We also give praise to the Music Box Theatre with an account of their annual 24-hour horror marathon, the Music Box of Horrors. 

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The Winter of Folk Horror continues, with a bubbling cauldron of films involving witchcraft, or that boil over into persecution of perceived supernatural abilities. When I see images from our first feature in this episode, they look so old, so authentic, that they MUST be real! But it's Satan's tongue that just may be the most memorable part of Haxan (1922)! If you're seemingly the lone uninhibited woman in a small Italian village, you may be better off exercising some restraint. And if you are practicing a few spells, you probably shouldn't reveal them to anyone, for fear of being being branded as Il Demonio (1963)! One of the most notorious witch-hunters in English history, is brought to the screen by Vincent Price, in perhaps his most vile performance. Your innocence will not save you, when Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General (1968), rides into town. Another infuriating travesty of justice transpires, when the accused are brought before a tribunal, with profit in mind. When these methods of torture are utilized, even the most strong-willed can crack under the weight of the Witchhammer (1970). And then from there, a superstitious mountain community has labeled Albrun and her mother as witches. But is there truth in their beliefs? Or does a form of madness take hold in the isolation, that is the only life Albrun has ever known? Get ready for our take on Hagazussa (2017).

It's a long journey this one, and I am going to give you the time codes below so if you don't want spoilers then please, avert your eyes.

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Below are the timecodes for all the different segments and my guest links. Feel free to let me know where you think I got it wrong or right and of course stay safe out there & I'll see you next month.

• 0.34 - Also Rans (Part 2)
• 5.58 - Frankenstein (1931) w/ Paul Chanter
• 40.38 - The Phantom Carriage (1921)
• 47.36 - The Invisible Man (1933)
• 56.29 - Freaks (1932)
• 1.04.45 - Sci-Fi Corner
• 1.22.58 - Häxan (1922) w/ Perran Helyes
• 1.59.33 - Nosferatu (1922) w/ Benjamin Bowles
• 2.22.59 - King Kong (1933)
• 2.32.58 - Outro

Dylan and Will are joined by Nick Wolfe to discuss the haunting silent films that emerged from Sweden and Denmark between 1917 and 1922, including Häxan and The Phantom Carriage. Featuring interviews with film professor Anne Bachmann, theologian Patrik Hagman, and Häxan-expert Richard Baxstrom, we also explore the world that produced these movies, discussing Lutheranism, Satan, the history of Sweden's Golden Age of silent film, and the lives of the remarkable filmmakers behind these chilling visions from a lost era.

Everyone is made to read certain books in school, but which of them actually stick with you? We also talk movies that featured Witches, and play a short movie trivia game based around swapping the words in a film's title with antonyms or synonyms.

01:50 - books we read in school that actually stuck with us
22:20 - antonym/synonym movie game
31:00 - witch movies

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