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Jan 23, 2015 · 'The Witch' is a major horror event on par with recent sensations like 'Kill List' and 'The Babadook'. Haunting doesn’t even begin to describe it. Release Details
The Witch (stylized as The VVitch, and subtitled A New-England Folktale) is a 2015 folk horror [7] film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her feature film debut, alongside Ralph Ineson , Kate Dickie , Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson.
Oct 26, 2017 · Robert Eggers’ indie film The Witch brilliantly chronicles Puritan life in the 1630s. Horror soon ensues as children disappear into the woods and one girl, Thomasina, is accused of witchcraft.
Feb 19, 2016 · The Witch: Directed by Robert Eggers. With Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Robert Eggers
- 2016-02-19
- The Horror Baked Into Human History
- Evil Or Ergot?
- Motifs of Wilderness in The Witch
- Is There Really A Witch?
- A Precarious Position
- What to Read Or Watch Next
The Witch ends with a statement that the film’s dialogue comes from journals, diaries and court records. Either way, the film tells a social history of witch huntingthrough the lens of the horror genre. The craze for denouncing witches consumed Europe for centuries, killing thousands – mostly women – accused of cavorting with the Devil. In America ...
The family’s ruined crops are very significant. At the time, this alone could start rumours of witchcraft – if only to explain the misfortune of godly people (see also vampires). We see the blackened corn when William (Ralph Ineson) tells Caleb: Over the course of the film we see the crops turn increasingly rotten in the background – yet the family...
William disagrees with church elders about preaching the gospels. Presumably this is a repeat offence, because it sees the family sent away from the settlement. Ultimately being cast out is a story device– one that enables and explains their isolation. At the same time, it establishes the family as like us and worth caring about (because they don’t...
Calling the film The Witch certainly plants the suggestion of sorcery. And yet maybe it doesn’t show us witchcraft at all, but the reasons for such fears. The family connect the dots to blame sorcery for their misfortunes. Meanwhile, instead of religious guidance, delirium and paranoia combine to explain their world. Hence: 1. An evil hag snatches ...
Even with its abundance of stock genre elements, the film’s dread comes from the true-life horrors of Thomasin’s precarious position as a woman. Her mother fears her as a romantic or sexual rival. And her age makes her a financial trading piece: her parents plan to put her into service so they don’t have to keep feeding her. It doesn’t help that th...
The Crucible, Mist Over Pendle(witch hysteria)Mar 10, 2016 · When death lives on your doorstep, horror becomes ordinary. Robert Eggers' breakout hit The Witch looks back to a period when reality and the supernatural strode hand-in-hand.Set in the 1630s, it ...
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Mar 6, 2016 · The new film "The Witch" is a grim tale. It takes place in 1630s New England, a few decades before the Salem witch trials. The film follows a family of English Puritans. They've come to the New ...
