His effort to cram in every aspect of the history of late Medieval witch fever, from repression of women to fear of the outsider to mushroom trips, becomes a chore, and a grisly twist in the final chapter, fire, just feels shocking for shock's sake. A historical psychological study like this doesn't deserve a stomach-churning moment like that, especially when all it does is push Albrun even further away.
Hagazussa
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Austria, Germany · 2018
1h 42m
Director Lukas Feigelfeld
Starring Aleksandra Cwen, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky, Haymon Maria Buttinger
Genre Horror, Drama, Fantasy
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This dark legend, set in the Alps region in the 15th-century, follows Albrun, a young goatherder. She lives an isolated life on the edges of a mountain community that is tortured by pagan beliefs in witches and spirits. Gradually, this feared world emerges in all of its horror --- testing Albrun's faith and sanity.
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Paste Magazine by Andrew Crump
Hagazussa is further distinguished through a patina derived from David Lynch and Panos Cosmatos—slow, deliberate, perpetually unsettling. The film takes its time, but it drags the viewer along the way toward a mind-shattering oblivion.
This is a frequently ravishing film, as attuned to the mysticism of landscapes as prime Herzog, while capable of jolting us with the occasional brutal image.
A frustrating genre picture that’s just too dreary to be scary.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
For those who can embrace Hagazussa more as an experience than as a spook show, this film is utterly absorbing and hard to shake.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
It looks and feels far more substantial than most indie debuts, confidently bending genre rules with its minimalist dialogue and hallucinatory plot, which owes more to David Lynch or Lars von Trier than to more orthodox horror maestros.
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