Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Katherine, devastated by Samuel's disappearance, spends her days crying and praying. An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate. [20][21] This is first felt in the architecture of the family's own home, which ironically resembles an archetypal witch's cottage itself, hinting the gradual reveal that evil is already installed in them. Muir also lobbied for a larger costume budget. [10] He said at a Q&A, "If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good. [7], An international co-production of the United States and Canada, the film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2015, and was widely released by A24 on February 19, 2016. Was this review helpful to you? [50] Eve Tushnet commented in an article in TAC, which was also published in First Things, that The Witch's view of witchcraft is "not revisionist" and further states that the film is "pervaded by the fear of God. Katherine awakens to a vision of Caleb holding Samuel. [19][20], The symbolic conflict between civilization and nature is also present in all the aspects of the film. Early the next morning, Thomasin finds Caleb preparing to check a trap in the forest and forces him to take her with him by threatening to awaken their parents. [24][25] A24 and DirecTV Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film. [19] This is stylistically represented by the film's usage of expressionist lightning, the usage of different kinds of camera to draw thematic limits, the edition employed to hide horror from the main sight, and the soundtrack's sonic dissonance accompanying instrumental scenes. "[34] Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". ", "Saturn Awards Nominations 2017: 'Rogue One,' 'Walking Dead' Lead", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Witch_(2015_film)&oldid=985121943, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Robert Eggers, Daniel Bekerman, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond and Rodrigo Teixeira, Young British/Irish Performer of the Year, Wahab Chaudhry as Black Phillip (voice, human form), Axtun Henry Dube and Athan Conrad Dube as Samuel, This page was last edited on 24 October 2020, at 02:36. He finds a hovel where a beautiful young woman seduces him. [37] Peter Travers, in his Rolling Stone review, gave the film 3​1⁄2 stars, and wrote of the film: "Building his film on the diabolical aftershocks of Puritan repression, Eggers raises The Witch far above the horror herd. [18][19][21] Accordingly, Caleb returns nude after being seduced by the witch, the witches themselves perform their acts while naked, and Thomasin eventually adopts this code upon joining them. Based on Roald Dahl's 1983 classic book 'The Witches', the story tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven year old boy who has a run in with some real life witches! The cast includes powerhouse performances from Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and Chris Rock, with newcomer Jahzir Kadeen Bruno as the brave young hero. William later reveals to Caleb that he traded Katherine's silver cup for hunting supplies. ", "THE WITCH is a gorgeous, thoughtful, scary horror film that 90% of the people in the theater with you will be too stupid to understand", "This is why we can't have nice things: "The Witch" and horror fandom's gatekeepers", "The Witch review: A terrifying tale of depravity", "Can Indie Filmmakers Save Religious Cinema? [19][20] On the opposite side, Satan's temptation of Thomasin also acquires traits of ideological grooming, slowly alienating her from her family in a way that has been compared to Islamic online grooming of jihadi wives.