This chilling horror film examines New England witchcraft paranoia—decades before Salem
The Witch features potentially demonic children, goats.
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New England in the 1630s was probably the worst. Everyone wore bonnets, electricity wasn’t around (imagine having only a fire to keep you warm), and they had all that paranoia about witches. Don’t ever forget about the witches.
In this trailer above, we have a look at Robert Eggers’s directorial debut, a deeply horrifying movie called The Witch, which actually takes place in New England about 60 years before the Salem witch trials. The film was the breakout thriller movie at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and even earned Egger the Best Director award.
In it, no one is certain what is going on with one 17th-century family when one son disappears and another is seemingly possessed. All fingers point to the oldest daughter who, decidedly, must be a witch. Everyone is paranoid. A woman lies in a coffin-sized ditched. A shirtless man has an ax. Children are talking to goats. A girl milks a goat, but blood comes out. It’s a nightmare in movie form.
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