Sweden, witch trials and T’Nia Miller: “Häxan” has started filming

A new Scandinavian folk-horror film called “Häxan” is now shooting in Sweden with T’Nia Miller and Erika Linder leading the cast.

The story draws from the Swedish witch trials of the 17th century and mixes psychological horror with relationship drama and Scandinavian folklore. Linder co-wrote the screenplay with Lindsay Hicks, while BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Tina Gharavi is directing.

Miller is an easy name to get excited about here. Horror viewers have already seen her in “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” where she could control a scene without having to shout her way through it. Folk horror usually benefits from performers who can hold tension while everybody around them starts losing their minds.

The film is expected to explore grief, misogyny, fear and confirmation bias through the deterioration of an intimate relationship.

Another interesting name showed up behind the camera: Moby is executive producing and composing the score.

The title naturally brings Benjamin Christensen’s incredible 1922 “Häxan” to mind. That silent film mixed documentary techniques, historical material and some wonderfully deranged images of witchcraft and Satan. This new production is not a remake of Christensen’s film. Both projects pull inspiration from European witch persecutions, but the 2026 “Häxan” is telling its own story.

Filming is underway now.

Swedish woods, relationship collapse, religious paranoia and witch trials. Nobody needs to add a haunted doll to this.