The Witch Reviews

Summary New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest - within which lurks an unknown evil. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately - animals turn malevolent, cro...

• Drama

• Fantasy

• Horror

• Mystery

• Thriller

If the story’s psychodynamics are familiar, Mr. Eggers makes them seem newly discovered. The intensity of his writing and direction, as well as the eerie austerity of Jarin Blaschke’s cinematography, Craig Lathrop’s production design and Mark Korven’s music, all conspire to create a film of exceptional originality.

The Witch becomes a focused portrait of fixed rituals crumbling in the face of inexplicable forces, evoking the fear of change lurking in the shadows at every moment. Despite the setting, its scares are uniquely contemporary.

A Bruxa é um filmaço de terror. Um dos melhores filmes de Terror do século.

This is one of the most rare, powerful films I've ever seen. It doesn't feel like a movie, it feels like a window into a different time. Eggers is an immaculate director and brings this vision to life in a way most filmmakers would envy.

The Witch is a stressful movie to watch, and that's meant as the highest praise.

A hugely assured debut, The Witch is a beautiful, bleak brainworm that will haunt you for days.

This is the kind of serious horror movie that will live in your head for days afterward, like a bad dream that’s difficult to shake.

The reworking of a tired horror trope into a transformed feminist symbol stands out as an impressive act of genre revisionism.

Early on, it seems that The Witch is tapping a higher metaphor for coming of age...or religious intolerance...or man's uneasy balance with nature...or something. It doesn't take long into the film's hour and a half running time, however, to break that spell.

The Witch is one of the weirdest movies I have seen so far because of Its uniqueness. The movie never turns its back on raw and unedited violence and never seems too dull to watch. I swear to god, in like the middle of the movie, I got a very big need to sneeze but I was just so glued to the screen that I was holding it in for at least 3 minutes. Visually, the movie is a masterclass. Sure, it's not very colorful but that was kind of the intention, the shots are beautifully made, with a wider shot when necessary but mostly up close and personal and the screenplay of a family going mad and getting corrupted by this evil force from the woods is just gripping right to the end. If you are expecting a horror movie like the Insidious or the Conjuring, I have to disappoint you, this is not going to be the movie for you. If you like dark and depressing movies tough, then you will enjoy every frame of this masterpiece. And don't forget, this is the first movie Robert Eggers ever made, so for a first movie, this movie is really good.

Well made, good cinematography. Unfortunately, falls flat and starts to feel rather boring...

Sua mistura de pavor que ferve lentamente acaba sendo mais morna do que aterrorizante.

I appreciate what it tried to do, I like the color, the score, some times the acting, but the jumpscares were bad, it was so boring I fell asleep, and I don't fall asleep in any movie. Also the movie felt too much like it was trying to be scary. I think if it was someone else working on the project to hehe it would've been better

Not scary at all and quite boring really. How this can even be deemed to be a horror is laughable.

Fright Meter Awards

• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)

• 1 Win & 9 Nominations

BloodGuts UK Horror Awards

• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations