The witch movie2/1/2024 Many if not most of us who grew up in the United States were inundated with probably unrealistic views of the pioneers who initially settled Instead, much like The Wicker Man, there's a slow but steady accretion of angst that ultimatelyĬreates a very discomfiting mood, one that becomes increasingly hard to shake as the intentionally minimalist story proceeds. The Witch doesn't really traffic in standard horror tropes like jump cuts, booming LFE orĮven outright signs of graphic gore (there are a few disturbing images in the film, but they're relatively restrained, at least within the context of Reenacted for the edification of the audience. (perhaps ironically) give the film a rare feeling of authenticity, as if some long ago banished history had suddenly sprung to life and been The Witch plies a somewhatįamiliar 17th century environment, albeit with a spooky supernatural air wafting through the misty woods, and that "folktale" element tends to Of The Wicker Man, with an atavistic, agrarian societyĪttempting to ferret out signs from the Divine in the workings of Nature, not always to felicitous results. This pastoral horror story, given the subtitle A New England Folktale, reminded me in a way ![]() Probably already taking umbrage that anyone would deign to assess elements of their faith, at least in how it's portrayed in the riveting if And so let me just begin this review by apologizing to any and all Puritans who may read it and who are ![]() We reviewers have learned the hard way that it's often dangerous to review a film with any religious leanings whatsoever, as it's virtuallyĬertain you're going to end up offending or alienating someone who either doesn't agree with the religion being portrayed, or how a particular Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, May 11, 2016
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