Volk is still uncertain as to why Häxan isn"t discussed in quite the same league as these peers. "The very concept is so modern," he concludes. "I can"t honestly see why it isn’t feted by film historians as much as [Carl T Dreyer"s] Vampyr [1931] or Nosferatu. I would certainly say it was the seminal faux-documentary that preceded all others. And the fact it was lost, then found, by horror aficionados puts it at the very vanguard of classic found-footage horror in the most literal sense."