its dread-dripped atmosphere, and its spiralling sense of desperation turning into inevitability, unsettles and oppresses like few genre films of recent times Apart from 4K picture upgrade which is nice, is that alone enough? Well this new release does comes with plenty of extras that aren’t found on the blu-ray original release. The "folktale" element obviously plays into this depiction, but since everything is shown more or less "realistically", there doesn't initially

There's an overt reference to liturgically towing the line (in a manner of speaking) from the very first moments of The Witch, when UHD re-releases, I'm simply providing my original review. Also please note that the 4K UHD disc ports over the same audio and supplements as And then there are the more overt horror elements, which the film isn’t afraid of hiding. Eggers shows the witch of the woods stealing Samuel, before murdering him and slathering herself in his smushed-up body in a quite disgusting and harrowing scene. The Witch is a slow burn of sorts, but when it does get into the nastier parts, it’s gruesome and impactful and it hits you hard. generally excellent detail levels, and an often smooth, sleek appearance, but it's also been very aggressively graded and desaturated, to the point that seem to be any kind of psychological undertone where what we're seeing might "just" be a vision of sorts.Short film: Brothers – a movie that was made to show he could work with a small family unit in a rural setting. This charts the problematic relationship of two siblings and their abusive grandma. One day the two boys go into the woods with rifles. As dark, tense and emotionally complex as what we’ve come to expect from Eggers. (10 minutes) who were confronting something more than simply an unknown land. The film benefits from an austere but seemingly historically accurate We reviewers have learned the hard way that it's often dangerous to review a film with any religious leanings whatsoever, as it's virtually Dialogue is always suitably prioritised although given the accents and that dialect, there are some instances where the specific words are hard to make out – the biggest issue for this was when the twins were trying to recite the Lord’s Prayer and failing. However, that appears to be baked into the source and not a fault with the transfer in any way.

reenacted for the edification of the audience. The Witch doesn't really traffic in standard horror tropes like jump cuts, booming LFE or attempting to ferret out signs from the Divine in the workings of Nature, not always to felicitous results. The Witch plies a somewhatbegins to fray, and suspicions arise, leading to a weird, almost hallucinatory, ambience where Katherine's increasing hysteria may or may not The most interesting aspect of the movie is its mythology. After Kaulder's curse, he becomes a witch hunter. A secret religious sect has been tasked with keeping him safe while he works in conjunction with the witch counsel. His job is to hunt down the bad witches and bring them in for justice so witches can live in harmony with humans. Widely praised since its debut, The Witch is a slow burn film that’ll likely be a case of love-it-or-hate-it. The film is set in New England in the 17 th century and focuses on a man named William (Ralph Ineson) and his family on their plantation. A case of Prideful conceit causes the exile of William and his family. They relocate to a farm by a large forest that they built themselves. William is married and has four kids. After his wife delivers her fifth child, he mysteriously vanishes one day. It is believed that a witch has in fact abducted the child for strange purposes. After this happens, we see the family, particularly Katherine (William’s wife) struggle with the vanishing. They also have twins and we see their daily routine on the farm. One such moment involves them playing with a goat that they claim can speak. There’s also talk of witchcraft, among other things. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

BFI London Film Festival Q&A with Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Producer Jay Van Hoy There's an argument to be made that the film's final "reveal" hints at something duplicitous in one of the major characters, but, again, The suddenly a new baby boy named Samuel on the premises, and in a horrifying moment, he disappears while Thomasin has her eyes covered familiar 17th century environment, albeit with a spooky supernatural air wafting through the misty woods, and that "folktale" element tends toIt's a curse because Kaulder has to live on eternally with the memory of his wife and daughter who were killed by the witch. This is the type of emoting that escapes a Vin Diesel performance. He's great in the Fast and Furious movies because Dominic Toretto is more, or less, Diesel. When he's called upon to offer up a bit more emotion his performances usually fall flat. That's the case here. Kaulder has a tortured past, but Diesel is unable to convey that through his emotions. So, while it may be a curse for him to live on and on with the memory of his murdered family, that sort of pain never comes across in Diesel's acting.

moments as the early scene introducing two of the focal children. In terms of the blue gradings, some scenes here approach a lighter teal tone than is As with most folk horror, it’s not often it can be called ‘terrifying’ or even ‘scary’. But its dread-dripped atmosphere, and its spiralling sense of desperation turning into inevitability, unsettles and oppresses like few genre films of recent times. Unafraid to embrace its supernatural sensibilities – there’s little doubt as to what is actually going on - Eggars stays the course and has complete faith in his cast to provide the hook into the ambience and mood of the film, instead of any plot complexities or contrivances. What still resonates with The VVitch is how finely in tune with its folk horror roots it is. On every level.His handler is Dolan 36th (Michael Caine). He's the 36th person to be tasked with keeping Kaulder safe and doing his job. Caine provides some much needed acting gravitas whenever he's paired up with Diesel in a scene. At least one of them knows about subtleties in the acting profession. New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation and relocates his family 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 —animals turn malevolent, crops fail, one child disappears and another seemsto become possessed by an evil spirit. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, daughter Thomasin is accused of witchcraft.