Film
The Witch
- Director
- Robert Eggers
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 93 mins
First-time director Robert Eggers previously plied his trade as a production and costume designer, and brings all his talents to this impressive recreation of early 17th century rural New England. It’s a good half-a-century before the Salem Witch Trials, but there’s already plenty of paranoia and Puritan fervour in this troubled homestead on the edge of a particularly dark and ominous forest. As crops fail and nippers are suspected of being in league with Beelzebub, the family descends into hysteria and madness in what feels like a cross between The Shining and The Crucible. The sense of mounting dread is expertly handled and you couldn’t ask for a scarier performance by a goat.
It’s back on screen in the Everyman’s Saturday late night cult classics season.
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