‘The Witch’ is here to haunt your nightmares
The Sundance winner’s first official trailer is out
Do you like your dreams peaceful and free of demonic and satanic imagery? Well, sorry, but those nights are over.
The trailer for The Witch dropped today and it. Is. Terrifying. The Sundance darling is the feature directorial debut of Lee, N.H native Robert Eggers and was one of the first films to be sold to a studio at the festival. Eggers also took home the award for Best Director in the dramatic category.
The Witch presents Salem in the Puritanical 17th century, as a family starts their new life in rural New England. Eerie happenings plague their young children and goat (OMG) and the family begins to suspect their young daughter is a witch. You can probably guess what happens next.
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The trailer is less than three minutes, but is hauntingly disturbing, interspliced with the picturesque fall farm foliage you know and love. Grantland deemed it both “horrifying’’ and “historically accurate.’’
The film comes to theaters next year.
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