A mad scientist "creates" a beautiful but demonic woman, the result of a forced sexual union between a woman and a mandrake root, a plant said to have magical powers due to its uncanny resemblance to the human body..
Hanns Heinz Ewers, Richárd Falk
Hungary
Emerging during Weimar Germany's cinematic golden age, Michael Curtiz's Alraune pulses with the fever-dream logic that characterized pre-Nazi German horror. Unlike the angular dystopias of The Phantom or the moralistic fervor of Heroes of the Cross, this adaptation of Hanns Heinz Ewers' novel presents a uniquely biol...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
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" Emerging during Weimar Germany's cinematic golden age, Michael Curtiz's Alraune pulses with the fever-dream logic that characterized pre-Nazi German horror. Unlike the angular dystopias of The Phantom or the moralistic fervor of Heroes of the Cross, this adaptation of Hanns Heinz Ewers' novel presents a uniquely biological terror. The mandrake myth—rooted in medieval herbology where plants grew from hanged men's ejaculate—becomes a springboard for exploring creation myths gone rancid. Curtiz v..."
