The Witch (2015)
A couple in 1630s New England homesteads on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children upon threat of banishment by the church. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to realize that moving here is a deadly mistake.
31 March 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8 September 1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
15 December 1969, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
7 June 1990, Lancashire, England, UK
1971, East Kilbride, Scotland, UK
December 31, 2016
It's startling to see a movie with such an appreciation and aesthetic understanding of this too-infrequently filmed era.
December 31, 2016
The Witch is a solid, compelling, thought-provoking movie.
February 24, 2017
Set in Puritan era New England, The Witch is an atmospherically driven, religion-coated film that is, at times, both beautiful and terrifying.
February 19, 2016
Helped by along by a great cast, a haunting soundtrack and terrific attention to period detail, The Witch is an auspicious feature debut for writer-director Robert Eggers.
March 23, 2017
This isn't the kind of movie most horror fans are going to flock to.
February 19, 2016
The Witch is wrapped up in its own views of religion, of sin, of feminine power, but more than anything else, it is wrapped up in itself.
February 22, 2016
"The Witch" feels at once sticky with tangible detail and numinous with suggestion.
January 03, 2017
The film is potently imagined and beautifully wrought -- although its hold loosens considerably when it strays from its eerie highpoints and into more conventional horror territory.
February 20, 2016
I would prefer seeing a failed attempt at something different than a regurgitation of every modern horror trope. Yet The Witch proves unable to capitalize on being different.
April 28, 2017
The stakes are real. The Devil is real. All roads do not lead up the mountain. Some lead to the heart of darkness, to the depths of a witch-haunted wood.
February 29, 2016
In the tradition of William Friedkin's The Exorcist, this chilling low-budget horror movie taps into the same temporal fear that sparks religious feeling.
