Movie Review: The Witch (2015)

Directed by Robert Eggers • 2015 • Color

Synopsis:

New England, 1630, William and Catherine lead a devout and Cristian life with her five children, homesteading on the edge of an impossible wilderness. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. The Witch is a chilling portrayal of a family unraveling within their own fears and insecurities, leaving them prey to an unspeakable evil.

Special Features:

Haven’t dipped into the special features nor are they on the back of the cover so I’m not listing them here.

[GuillermoMaytorenaIV]

Those last 17m of the film should've been a whole hour of it, with the story moving somewhere past that. It's a technically good film with so much mood rolling forward from it. But if we're talking Eggers, it's all about The Northman, which is far and away the second best Viking film ever made, and the one with the most historical integrity behind it.