Photo is in black and white. Two women in shoulder-less dresses with light and dark frills look away from the camera. Their hair is braided, with the tails of the braids help up by elaborate fabric headresses. The woman to hte left has a white cloth headress, and the one to the right has a grey covering with a braided, black and white rope that appears to be striped. Banner for 5th Avenue Cinema Presents: Spooky And Surreal: Horror of Early Cinema: Häxan

5th Avenue Cinema Presents: Spooky And Surreal: Horror of Early Cinema: Häxan

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Film Screening Free

Fri, Oct 30, 2026

6 PM – 8:35 PM PDT (GMT-7)

Friday and Saturday screenings at 6 pm & 8:30 pm each day! Sunday screening at 3 pm.

Private Location (sign in to display)

Details

Spend your Halloween weekend with 5th Avenue Cinema as we explore the origins of cinema through the evolution of horror! Revel in the camp, the surreal, and the unsettling short films by Georges Méliès, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Segundo de Chomón and others followed by a presentacion of Häxan (1922) -- an early Swedish documentary-adjacent feature surrounding the origins of witchcraft. The program will cover nearly three decades of cinema from 1897 - 1923.

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