BFI London Film Festival Q&A with Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson & Producer Jay Van Hoy almost three years ago, and rather than repeat what has become almost my series of blog postings about Lionsgate's patently odd choices for its creates a very discomfiting mood, one that becomes increasingly hard to shake as the intentionally minimalist story proceeds. The Witch’s lossless 5.1 mix is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio and it presents a lush, atmospheric soundscape that places the folk-inspired instrumental score throughout the channels and the sounds of the woods like wind in the trees and chirping birds in surrounds. This is a superbly balanced, clean, and subtle mix with excellent dynamics. The Supplements seem to be any kind of psychological undertone where what we're seeing might "just" be a vision of sorts.

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. The Witch: A Primal Folklore– A fairly standard EPK with some clips from the film along with some interviews with cast and crew. It’s a step above the usual faire, but it’s not unlike we’ve ever seen either.be leading William to assume nefarious activities. Once again, though, The Witch is commendably free of "mind games", with none 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. 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. The Witch is a masterful slice of folk horror and Second Sight has done it justice. I would have liked something deeper from the production side, but the extras provided are very good, and the film itself looks amazing. Essential for anyone’s collection.

More traumas of course accrue around the family, and in the film's final act, William seems about to go Grand Guignol on his (surviving) And while, yes, they had sought to escape religious persecution (or at least religion defined by others, which they may have perceived as 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. Released: 24th October 2022. 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.I never caught The Last Witch Hunter on its initial theatrical release. Judging by the initial reaction I dodged a bullet. Perhaps my expectations were too low, but visiting it for the first time I must say it wasn't as horrible as I was imagining. Sure, Vin Diesel's stone-like presence isn't great for a film like this, and sure the information surrounding his abilities as a witch hunter are murky. Yet, there's enough there to hold interest, which is more than I thought would be possible.

Anyhow, the point is what immediately caught my attention in Robert Eggers directorial debut The Witch— or as it is stylized The VVitch— is the story of a banished pilgrim family terrorized by an unknown supernatural force. Not only does the film comfortably fit within this folk horror subgenre, but the plot explores some weighty and fascinating sociopolitical themes that are even more pertinent in today's climate. By subtitling his film A New England Folktale, Eggers brings attention to this fact since folktales are commonly understood as embodying cultural traditions, habits, and rituals of a particular period, unwittingly allowing for an examination of the institution which normalized said customs and practices. intentionally small scale The Witch. This pastoral horror story, given the subtitle A New England Folktale, reminded me in a wayperhaps ironically) give the film a rare feeling of authenticity, as if some long ago banished history had suddenly sprung to life and been 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. That said, there is most definitely a psychological element to what plays out after Samuel's disturbing disappearance. The family