As far as film debuts go, they don’t come as terrifying as writer/director Robert Eggers’ The Witch. A stunningly simple, period, family drama with loads of gothic mood and dripping with atmosphere, it isn’t a horror that will appease genre fans wanting a jump-scare every 15 minutes. Nor will it satiate gore-hounds looking for blood and guts strewn throughout. The Witch, instead, draws its horror from the unseen forces at work in the universe that slowly, but surely, breaks down a family until there’s hardly anything, maybe nothing at all, left. Every scene of Eggers’ film is crafted with an inherent tension, every shot a gorgeous composition of wood, dirt and fog. The Witch doesn’t have an immediate impact, but it damn sure festers. ›››
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