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IMDb rating 7
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Critic rating 7.7

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Critic A.A. Dowd

...situates itself very purposefully in an actual time and place; it doesn’t require some huge mental leap to connect its fictional terrors to the very real ones inflicted upon a group of innocents in the same geographic region...

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Simon Abrams
rated 8

I've talked a lot about what The Witch is about without mentioning how well it's about it. That's partly because the film is so consistently engrossing that surrendered to it early on.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Mark Kermode
rated 8

...The Witch plants its pitchfork proudly in the more unsettling landscape of evocative, intelligent modern horror.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Eric Kohn
rated 8

...Eggers makes it clear that genuine evil is afoot, Thomasin’s ambiguous role at the center of it all turns “The Witch” into a disturbing portrait of emerging adulthood.

Read full review at Indie Wire
Critic Chris Hewitt
rated 8

...rarely has a film this oppressive been so impressive.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Niki Vraast-Thomsen
rated 8

Det er svært ikke at forvente sig meget af Robert Eggers, hvis stilsikre debutfilm indkasserer gys på den gammeldags måde: Gennem timing, atmosfære og selvsikkerhed nok til at lade billederne fortælle.

Read full review at Soundvenue
Ismael Almeida
rated 9

Obra de art

1 year ago
Michael Thomsen
rated 8

God art-horror, lidt langsom , så hvis man mest er til handlingsmættet teen pop-horror skal man lige omstille sig.

2 years ago

Cast & Crew

Robert Eggers
Director
Julian Richings
As Governor
Ralph Ineson
As William
Kate Dickie
As Katherine
Anya Taylor-Joy
As Thomasin
Carrie Eklund
As Coven Witch

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The Witch is a horror film set in 17th-century New England. A family of English settlers, banished from their Puritan plantation, build a new home near a dense forest. When their infant son vanishes and their crops fail, they become increasingly paranoid and accusatory, believing that a witch has cursed them. Tensions rise as they turn against each other, and the family's descent into madness and terror begins. The film explores themes of fear, superstition, and the destructive power of religious hysteria.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Witch include Midsommar, The Invisible Man, The Skin I Live In, Books of Blood, It Comes at Night, I Remember You.