Watching this movie, I began remembering the 1922 documentary Häxan. Like Benjamin Christensen's documentary about witchcraft, this Ansorge animated depicts a Sabbath - a meeting of the Devil and his female worshipers, and it's as graphic and disturbing as the dramatization with live actors in Christensen's work.
After a night of celebration with their loved ones, the women of a village leave their beds to fly into the air and congregate in a nearby forest, where the Devil and other demons expect them.
Like most Ansorge movies, Sabbath shows gruesome metamorphosis: stone gargoyles come to life, women turn into frogs, the Devil transforms himself. They have sex, get drunk, and in the morning return home.
It's almost a horror movie and the grainy, sketchy art perfectly captures this demon-infested world.
After a night of celebration with their loved ones, the women of a village leave their beds to fly into the air and congregate in a nearby forest, where the Devil and other demons expect them.
Like most Ansorge movies, Sabbath shows gruesome metamorphosis: stone gargoyles come to life, women turn into frogs, the Devil transforms himself. They have sex, get drunk, and in the morning return home.
It's almost a horror movie and the grainy, sketchy art perfectly captures this demon-infested world.
