The Witch 2016

A family in 1630s New England is torn separated by powers of witchcraft, dark enchantment and ownership.

New England, 1630: Lead William and Katherine sincere Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wild, with five children. When their toddler bafflingly vanishes and their yields come up short, the the family begins to turn on each other. "The Witch" is a cooling picture of a family disentangling inside their own fears and tensions, abandoning them prey for an inevitable insidiousness.

In this dazzlingly made and unnerving new blood and gore movie, the age-old ideas of witchcraft, dark enchantment and ownership are creatively united to recount the cozy and riveting story of one family's repulsive disentangling in the New England wild around 1630. New England, 1630. Endless supply of expulsion by the congregation, an English rancher leaves his provincial manor, moving his better half and five kids to a remote plot of arrive on the edge of an unpropitious woodland - inside which sneaks an obscure abhorrence. Interesting and unsettling things start to happen very quickly - creatures turn vindictive, crops fall flat, and one tyke vanishes as another turns out to be apparently controlled by an underhanded soul. With suspicion and distrustfulness mounting, relatives blame young girl Thomasin for witchcraft, loads, she resolutely refused. Circumstances develop more slippery, every relative's confidence, steadfastness and adoration get to be tried in stunning and exceptional ways. Author/executive Robert Eggers' introduction highlight, which debuted to extraordinary praise at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival - winning the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Account Competition - carefully reproduces a God-dreading New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious feelings lamentably swung to mass agitation. Told through the eyes of the pre-adult Thomasin - in a star-production turn by newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy - and bolstered by entrancing camera work and an effective musical score, The Witch is a chilling and noteworthy new tackle the class.