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Hexes, Covens and Curses

A run through horror's oldest fear, the witch and the curse she leaves behind, from Häxan's silent lecture and Bava's masked revenant through the Polanski coven and Argento's dance academy to Eggers' Puritan forest and Cregger's vanished schoolchildren; watch them near each other to see how each era recasts the same hex.

A crowd-friendly October spine of modern hits (Weapons, The Witch, Drag Me to Hell, The Craft) that opens onto genuine film-school canon and some cult oddities; most of it is easy to watch, but the silent, Estonian and Rob Zombie entries ask for patience or a taste for the strange.