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The VVitch: A New-England Folktale

2021
★ 7 / 10
An isolated Puritan family in 1630s New England comes unraveled by the forces of witchcraft and possession.
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Reviews
★★★★★
When you leave the theater in stunned silence, I think the film did its job. The Witch is the next low budget horror film to reach the theaters this year, and it's easily the best. The film rarely ever relies on jump scares to get your head spinning as the cor...
★★★★★
I feel like I can't come up with the right words to describe this incredible movie, but I'll try. The lingering atmosphere is done incredibly well from the beginning, helped along by a combination of a tense score and the use of extended periods of silence. Th...
★★★★★
This is a story set in the early colonial period of New England. It has the authenticity of a well-researched historical drama, up to and including dialogue delivered in a period accent and vocabulary (softened a bit so that it's easy to understand). Instead o...
★★★★★
It took me a very long time, up until just this past weekend, to watch The Witch ("aka VVitch". It has been on my radar since it first came out, but it's hard for me to sit through slow-burn films, especially of the arthouse variety, so I naturally procrastina...
★★★★★
I found "The Witch" to be a generally unnerving film, and one which--though I would not place it in the pantheon of scariest flicks I've ever seen--had some moments that I'll not easily forget. The atmosphere Eggers creates alone is enough to wrench serious d...
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