The age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are
innovatively brought together to tell the story of one family's
frightful unraveling.
Director:
Robert EggersWriter:
Robert EggersStars:
Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie | See full cast and crew »Storyline
New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life,
homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five
children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops
fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a
chilling portrait of a family unraveling within their own fears and
anxieties, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil.
The Witch User Reviews
Gut-Wrenching Tension
Period pieces don't
often serve as the backdrops for horror, which is actually a real shame.
Consider The Witch, a story about a banished Puritan family trying to
sustain itself on the edge of an ominous forest inhabited by a gruesome
witch. The faithful representation of one of the most creepy time
periods in American history makes all the difference here. The family's
dealings with the supernatural terror in the woods push their spiritual
and physical endurance to the breaking point. Robert Eggers pulls no
punches and makes no apologies in this film. The Witch's scenes are
steeped in primal dread, and each actor makes the audience feel the
seams come apart as paranoia and mistrust begin to take their toll.
While Game of Thrones alumni Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie offer
brilliantly raw performances as the family's mother and father, it's the
film's younger actors—Harvey Scrimshaw and Anya Taylor-Joy—who really
shine. Scrimshaw captures the nuanced turmoil of being an adolescent
male in a strictly religious family. As the oldest daughter who is
blamed for the witch's malevolent deeds against the family, Anya
Taylor-Joy shows a surprising amount of risk and range in her
performance. The film swings for the fences on all fronts. The
performances are explosive, the tension is gut-wrenching, and the
settings are nightmarish. To the horror films of 2015, the gauntlet has
officially been thrown down. –Alex Springer
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