In the eerie and immensely unsettling movie The Witch, a pioneering family in 1630s New England is thrown into upheaval after they settle in the wrong part of the woods. Shit happens when you listen to Black Phillip. Told through the eyes of the adolescent Thomasin - in a star-making turn by newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy - and supported by mesmerizing camera work and a powerful musical score, "The Witch" is a chilling and groundbreaking new take on the genre. Narrative Competition), painstakingly recreates a God-fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions and pagan folklore famously clashed. Writer/director Robert Eggers' debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (and won the Best Director Prize in the U.S. They accuse her of witchcraft, which she adamantly denies.but as circumstances become more and more treacherous, each family member's faith, loyalty, and love will be tested in shocking and unforgettable ways. As suspicion and paranoia mount, everyone begins to point the finger at teenage daughter Thomasin. A good horror film isn’t terribly easy to create. Almost immediately, strange and unsettling things begin to happen-the animals turn violent, the crops fail, and one of the children disappears, only to return seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. This deeply unsettling and frankly terrifying 1600s-set horror film succeeds thanks to a focus on dread and mood rather than cheap scares. Set in New England circa 1630, "The Witch" follows a farmer who get cast out of his colonial plantation and is forced to move his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest rumored to be controlled by witches. In this exquisitely-made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family's frightful unraveling.
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