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The Witch (2015)

2016 92 min Feb 19, 2016

Storyline

In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.

Release DateFebruary 19, 2016
Runtime92 minutes
Ratings
(11 votes, average: 3.27 out of 5)
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Reviews

100
Drew McWeeny
Eggers manages to create a sense of mood and dread that is so suffocating at times that it feels like we're watching something genuinely transgressive, something we should not be seeing.
100
Rodrigo Perez
A deeply impressive first film by director Robert Eggers, “The Witch” is immaculately constructed, evinces an exquisitely ominous tone, and is unequivocally haunting. It’s exacting look at the dissonance of human nature is terrifying.
100
David Ehrlich
The Witch is one of the most genuinely unnerving horror films in recent memory because Eggers has the guts to earn your fear.
91
Eric Kohn
The Witch becomes a focused portrait of fixed rituals crumbling in the face of inexplicable forces, evoking the fear of change lurking in the shadows at every moment. Despite the setting, its scares are uniquely contemporary.
90
Justin Chang
Writer-director Robert Eggers’ impressive debut feature walks a tricky line between disquieting ambiguity and full-bore supernatural horror, but leaves no doubt about the dangerously oppressive hold that Christianity exerted on some dark corners of the Puritan psyche.

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