Of course "found footage" is now a flourishing horror sub-genre that Paciorek believes Häxan "definitely paved the way for… but it is strange that it took so long for that to build up." Christensen"s film isn"t itself strictly "found footage": he never pertains to be showing the viewer a recording of actual witch trials. However, his blurring of reality and fantasy clearly does contain within it the DNA of the found-footage genre, even if ultimately he is guided by a greater sense of fantastical intention than these later films, with their feeling of accidental discovery.