The Witch - Movie Review
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- GoodBadFlicks reviews The Witch, a movie where they somehow were able to make a rabbit scary. Seriously. Directed by Robert Eggers.
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The closing frame with the witch coven was pretty much like watching an animated baroque painting.
Totally like a Goya painting.
House of the Devil was fucking amazeballs. The scene with the gun shocked the shit out of me.
Best line of the film “do you want to live deliciously?”. This is one of my favorite films.
1:43 A very good 'frontier supernatural horror thriller' is Eyes of Fire from 1984
In the theater 8 people left during the film ( I counted). And I couldn't help but wonder why. Then I realized that people these days have extremely short attention spans. Heck people even brought young children to the movie. Anyway, it was a fantastic movie! I love period pieces and I love original screenplays which have become increasingly rare.
It shows you how dumb the average movie goer is
Dude almost 10 people left while I was watching looper... Like wtf is wrong with people...
Loved how the evil from the woods brought out the worst in each of the characters rather then hunting them down like in the Evil Dead.
For what it was, I enjoyed it and thought it was definitely creepy, but it never really shocked me or actually made me scared at any point. The baby scene and the ending in my opinion were the closest at doing this. Maybe I'm someone who just enjoys faster films or something, I'm not sure. Sinister (2012) is still my favorite horror film of this decade so far.
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The movie is a classic. Poor Thomasin especially when her mad mother tries to kill and unfairly blames her for everything.
Hi Cecil, I wanted to add a few points to your review. The family wasn't Catholic, they were actually Calvinists. The community they were living in at the beginning of the film were Puritans. The film isn't just a horror film, it's actually a perfect representation of a 16th century style religious allegory - like Pilgrims Progress. Nathaniel Hawthorne also wrote in this style, though he wrote in the 1800s. The film's premise is the allegory of The Sin of Pride. Staunchly anti-Calvinist, the film shows the father rejecting the teachings of the towns elders, and instead chooses to follow the heretical view of the Calvinists. This sin of pride, leads to the downfall and death of his entire family - an allegory for the Calvinist movement as it fell away from the teachings of the Puritans. The ending is a slap in the face to Calvinists, as it shows them descending into the "total depravity" of their false doctrine.
+goliathprime Thanks for clarifying this. I'd noticed some mentions within the film that some people were predestined for salvation and others weren't and you never knew where you stood in the grand scheme. The period dialogue was difficult to decipher at times and this seemed to be central to the family's mind-set.
Thank you
I saw the movie 2 days ago via on-demand and after 10 Minutes it felt like I had a 20 pound boulder on my chest that got heavier with each coming minute. I absolutely adored this movie, Robert Eggers wrote a fantastic script and made this movie exactly the right way how the material should be treated as. Fantastic actors, outstanding atmosphere and a nerve tingling soundtrack. For me personally it is my movie-of-the-year 2016. Right after I saw it I bought the Blu-Ray and recommended the movie to couple of my friends. I can't stress this enough, how brilliant this movie is.
I heard that the director is in the works of a Nosferatu Remake/Reimagining. Werner Herzog already made a fantastic remake back in the 70s, but I am more than thrilled to see what Eggers will bring to the source material.
Another amazing review Cecil!
Thanks! The whole movie has this weird unsettling quality, its sad how many people don't think this is scary because it doesn't have a million jump scares.
To be honest, I barely see new horror movies these days since they are filled to the brim with jumpscares and label this as "horror". The genre can be more and there are some of the best movies, which never had a single one of them. I see a lot of italian horror movies lately and they are excellent indulged into atmosphere.
The Witch is a rare example how to make a proper scary movie just by its unsettling nature - as you said. And I am happy this movie was even greenlit. I hope the studios give Eggers free hand in the future as well.
The crowd at my showing was also hating on the film a lot. I feel this was too smart for the general audience which is pretty sad. This was an amazing film.
+WrecklessEating I wanted to see it sooner but in a way I'm glad I wasn't able to see it until most of the crowds were gone. I would have been pissed if people were bashing this live.
+WrecklessEating So when do we get Cecil on the main show?
+WrecklessEating that is actually some of the reasons i dont always watch movies in cinema halls. too many annoying audience members
+GoodBadFlicks It's funny, because when I saw it with my friends; it was just us. I want the film to do well, but it did increase our enjoyment of the film.
+WrecklessEating wth are you doing here
They're Protestants.
+xamphor Calvinists to be precise.
hah yeah i was like.. you REALLY wouldn't want to make that mistake if you were around back then
xamphor they are puritans!
Reina Algabri yep puritans are technically protestant
i was agreeing with you.. i was just trying to clarify if anyone was confused. didn't mean it to sound like talking down to you
Need to check out "Ravenous" for a decent "frontier" horror flick
What you we're saying about the audience interference Laughing, Talking, Playing with Cellphones etc. is why i don't go to the theatre anymore. It is really bad for that shit where i live and it ruins the whole experience. But if i must see something on the big screen (which is not much anymore) i usually go to a matinee on a Monday afternoon to get the least amount of audience members.
Kesyabasturd Another shit thing is the screen at my theatre are really not that big.
Kesyabasturd Nope.
Yeah I watched it in the middle of the night at home with the lights turned off. Still wasn't freaked out at all. I just didn't get how this movie was scary, unless devout religion scares you.
The best theater experience I ever had was for the Evil Dead 2013. It was a small, cramped theater that was packed from end to end. The sound was a little too high for the size of the theater, so we really, REALLY felt everything that happened in that movie. Everybody was reacting with "OH FUCK", "JESUS", etc when horribly painful things happened. The movie wasn't altogether that scary, per se, but it's one of my favorite visceral experiences.
I find it some times people are too busy bad mouthing various form of media to the point they actually forget to have a good time and enjoy themselves. ( The recent reactions of a live action trailer is a good proof of this.) Nice review as well. :)
I also had a weird movie crowd, these two middle aged women behind me commented on anything strange. Like when there is that close up on the rabbit, there was this beat of silence then, then from behind me, ..."BUNNY!" hahah, it's strange how so many people say they got bad audiences on this one, I think A LOT of people didn't know what they were walking into. I loved The Witch, so so so much. Never thought I would see a perfectly made, New England witch folk tale...bravo. Btw, this is how i want my horror AND my fairy tale movies made.
I really loved the ending, it remind me of the dark Goya paintings, he has one about witches that drinks from the same source as this movie, and it's beautiful and horrifying. I really think this movie will be in all schools as an example of how the old witch stories were.
It's a Hare. Not a Rabbit. An animal connected with folklore, which is why it was used in the film I suppose.
Don't their feet bring bad luck or something?
i already thought goats are fairly evil-looking.. (although most are cute to me). but this film was the first to make a rabbit look super evil to me
The ending didn't make sense, though.
This really is an amazing movie!! His follow up The Lighthouse was good too. And for the same reason. The movie just sits with the characters and let's you get in the world with them. Robert Eggers is an amazing talent. Up there with Paul Thomas Anderson.
I love this movie. You really need to remember that the title is "The Witch: an American Folktale" ... that should tell you right away that these events may not have happened this way but the family did end up dead/missing after they were banished from their village and upon finding their bodies and the carnage left behind, the gaps in the story must have been filled in and changed over the years just like the folktales we grew up hearing and retelling today. This is the story of a family who died suddenly an in a gruesome way, in mysterious circumstances. Of course the village members who found their bodies immediately blamed witchcraft! The 1600s were full of paranoid religious people who believed in witchcraft and were terrified of it. This movie is freaking genius:)
I saw The Witch a couple weeks ago and it has still stuck with me. The imagery, the distinct features of the cast. I will admit that even though I really enjoyed the film, my modern day horror mind kept expecting stuff to happen. I would shrink down in my seat which I guess made the film scarier. A great film. I thought the kid who played the older brother was especially great. Cecil, you should see Take Shelter.
Inspired by this movie, could you make a video about "Eyes of Fire", an 1983 horror movie that looks like a reference to this because there are so many similarity between them and is such a wonderful movie?
This totally described the audience that I saw it with. My friend and I still managed to enjoy the film, but they were awful. People kept talking, and responding very loudly to the smallest amount of blood or gore. It was clear they weren't looking to see this kind of film
Didn't see this film in theaters, but watched at home with my wife. Problem was, the dialogue was quiet, which coupled with the period-themed dialects and verbage, forced us to put in closed captions and rewind constantly to have any idea what people were saying, particularly the father character. Due to that, we never got invested in the movie. Some parts were interesting, but straining to even hear dialogue makes it difficult to get immersed in a film. I wanted to like it, but in the end it just felt dull, like it was trying to hard to be a horror version of 'The Crucible' or 'The Scarlet Letter.'
the girl becomes a witch in the end there just save you 40 bucks or 15 depending on where your from
When an audience are making fun of a genuine scary scene, it usually is a form of defense mechanism. When people get scared or uncomfortable, they tend to look for the ridiculous so they can offset their fear.
The trailers always interested me but I shall have to check it out when its available to buy/rent.
Correction~ devout protistans because they’re puritans
I really liked this. The music made it all the more engrossing. It's slow, but i found it really interesting and was horrifying to an extent. The four other people in the theater with me did not like it. My friend hated it and i just kind of walked while she trashed it and thought about how creeped out out i was.
A modern horror movie without jumpscares? Fucking finally!
this movie: nothings happening...nothings happening...something about a witch...nothings happening, it's over; a lot of people look angry
This was what I wanted M. Night Shamalayan's The Village to be. Also, get on your Batman v Superman review!
please do man I want your take on it
Trailer made it look like a creature feature , but with the right expectations it was really good .
Sadly people end up criticizing films like this because it’s not basic conjuring stuff. I went to see this with 5 people. They all fell asleep. So sad
If I was in ANY movie theatre where people are talking, laughing, or playing with their cell phones, I would kick some serious ass. If you go to a theatre, you do not talk, or interrupt other people's viewing experience, period. No matter what type of movie it is. I don't know how it is in Amur'ica, but up here in Canada if you talk in a theatre they pause the movie and the crowd lynches the person, ties them up, puts them in the lobby, then we all go back and they un-pause it,
Well then you should never watch a horror movie in Richmond
awww, man.
I heard it scared the hell out of Stephen King, so I had to see it.
I didn't like it, super slow isn't a bad thing, but this just felt like a christian horror film. Not for me, really well made, but I wish it was more of the ending and less of the build up.
I don't think they were catholics, I'm pretty sure they were supposed to be Puritans....
I loved this movie . . . The casting was awesome... the kids in their little home made suits, especially the youngest boy, really creeped me out.... also "Black Phillip" that was sooooo great!!! That goat was one hell of an actor!!!
the shot with the mother and the crow was extremely disturbing
"And movies shouldn't be entertaining, or keep you interested. Afterall movies are only about art...."
OK, I have to say I also like slow creepy good horror movies who do things different (like "It follows" or "Let the right one in") but this one just, I don't know, didn't get me. It didn't build up suspension for me, it didn't make me uncomfortable or scared. It just was a movie about a family in the woods. The ending was OK, but the rest? Nah, I didn't feel it. There are so many slow creepy movies with no jumpscares and a good story behind that are just better for me.
I also watched it at home only with my wife..
One terrible prejudice against the genre showed itself in that I've seen several people defending this movie by saying it's NOT a horror film, but rather a psychological drama of how isolation and fanaticism can affect people's minds in situations of isolation and deprivation. While this IS a valid analysis of the movie, I feel that the reason for it is that many people who consider themselves intellectuals or more informed viewers look down on horror as something inferior and not whorthy serious attention. Which is, of course, not only sad, but very stupid. No genre is trully inferior. It all depends on what you do along the lines you've chosen for your movie. Same with the prevalent idiocy of saying all cartoons (even things as erotic and violent as many anime) are for kids.
I was bored...this is not for me.
I love your reviews, you give just enough information to get me hyped about seeing a movie without giving anything away. Excellent
good stuff, the shots from the animals remind me of the fox scene from antichrist
1:52 Where is it? Behind the rabbit?
The thing I loved most about this movie was that at heart it was still a horror film, all social commentary aside there was still an actual witch to be afraid of. I was really worried they were gonna go with some "the witch is inside us all" or "the witch represents our judgement on female sexuality". It was defiantly a slow burn but it had a great atmosphere and many genuinely scary scenes along the way.
The trailer is already scary...isn't the goat a disguise of the demon Lamia?
imagination isn't just about what u can create its also about what u can accept
A friend talked me into a horror movie night and this was one of the movies we watched. I thought the movie looked good and was well shot and acted, but just wasn't much of a movie. I didn't find it at all creepy until the literal last 5 minutes. I guess it wasn't my cup of tea
Man the audience I saw this with HATED it and I was glowing walking out of that theater.
I'm surprised you haven't reviewed "Mama". Now that was a movie with one boo scare after another, and not much else.
Available to stream with Amazon Prime now :) best slowburn horror since The Innkeepers
I saw it 3 times in theatres, me and my sister joked it was a prequel to the Blair Witch :)
I think it was the idea of the witches themselves that turned me off. I get that this is fiction and the Witches in the movie are based on what people thought of witches at that time, but being a witch myself that still irritates me.
This is what I do. I take a day off and see the movie in the daytime. No one is around and I can easily sink into the film
I absolutely loved this movie. Watched it alone in pitch black and way too high.
Just watched it. Man. This is a hell of a movie. A horror in a classic sense for sure, and in the same vein as The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, and even The Exorcist. All the elements of film were on point with this one. Thanks for the recommendation, Cecil. Probably wouldn't have watched it as soon as I did, otherwise.
Puritans aren't Catholics.
I finally seen this and loved it. Superb movie with a high rewatchablity.
This movie wasn't scream out loud scary. But it creeped me out so badly I felt uneasy for a solid week.
Creepy damn rabbit...haunting me in my dreams.
Sounds like a pretty good horror movie. Anya Taylor-Joy, the actress who played Thomasin, is also going to appear in an upcoming sci-fi film called Morgan, which I might go and see.
Great review! Totally agree with everything you're saying, loved this film! I have no idea what are people complaining about with the ending either, thought the ending was exactly what it needed to be. Also, loved the soundtrack - perfect for the tone and the story.
I think people were like, "that's it? Now they show stuff?" We already know what happens next...witches do their thing until they are killed in the Salem trials. The end represents Thomasin reaching her coming of age and her escape from her restraints
I don't consider movies that do a lotof jump scare real horror movie, they are more like dump creepy entertainment.
I really enjoyed this movie. I think part of what made it so disturbing to me was that I didn't think of it as a story that was actually happening. I thought of it as the kind of story the Puritans would invent, and so we were seeing it through their religious, hysterical filter. This is literally what they believed witches and Satan did, and it was almost like a horror movie made by and for those Puritans as the audience. As soon as I saw there was a teenage girl, I started to anticipate she'd be accused of witchcraft, and it made the tension of all these events adding up just unbearable. And in the back of my mind I also imagined that this is the story the Puritans would someday use to hang an innocent woman...that maybe none of this was really happening at all, but this is the kind of hysterical account they'd drum up to condemn a girl like Tommesina.
I also went into the movie thinking it might be like The Crucible, where there's no real supernatural elements. So seeing that was NOT the case was terrifying.
I hate going to cinemas today, I don't know how but I always manage to find some idiot beside me who always fiddles with his phone or tablet or just keeps talking with someone else.
+ripoutyourprejudice I haven't gone to the theatre since 2013 for that exact reason.
Cory Kamermans
It's a justified reason, people just got very obnoxious over the years.
The best time at the cinema was with Django Unchained and the place was pretty much empty :D.
ripoutyourprejudice It has made me very willing to wait 3 or 4 months to see a movie.
Cory Kamermans
These days it's just more convenient to wait for the bluray version to watch it from your own privacy.
ripoutyourprejudice 100% agree.
The movie seemed to be a jab at people who seem to think they're better than others because of their connection with their beliefs. That's kind of what I got out of it. Especially that ending which was pretty epic.
this movie was incredible. it indeed got under my skin and it was scary
I'm convinced to check this out. Does the film ever indicate why the W in witch is written V V? or is that just an artistic choice to draw attention?
+Michael Wolfe Most typefaces in the mid-17th century and before didn't have a W block, and instead substituted two V's. The director saw it a lot when he was researching the movie and thought it looked interesting.
Derrick Marin Ok. I didn't know if it was relevant to the plot. Thanks for the info.
the crow scene.
I like to watch my movies alone, and I loved this movie. I also love slow cookers :-)
WTF!? This movie has no jump scares? Slow burn horror!? What is is this piece of crap? Didn`t the director know anything about what makes a good horror movie these days?
And that is exactly the reason why this movie has earned my money although I haven`t had the opportunity to see it yet. Once it hits the shelves I will instantly go buy it, dim the room, maybe light a few candles and sit back and enjoy. Word of mouth alone tells me in my gut what I already knew, but coming from you I know it`s going to be good.
Do Turkish Star Wars man. I saw that movie completely wasted a week or so ago and it was AWESOME!
Yessss, I knew you would love this and I agree with all of your points.
And House of the Devil was really fantastic, props for including it in this.
If you over analyze most movies it will often negatively affect your experience. So its best to just let it go and watch the movie on its own merits .
In England, if someone speaks. The whole place tells them to shut up.
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In general there are three types of horror fans. Fans that love thought evoking atmospheric horror (like the VVitch) and fans that love face value jump scares. Most of us lie in the middle somewhere. The VVitch was such an amazing movie imo. Black Phillip will haunt my nightmares.
I thought it was phenomenal! The Ending was unexpected and perfect. 👍🏼.
Haven't seen this yet, but judging by the trailer it has a similar look and feel to a 2008 horror movie from Finland called Sauna.
If psychological, slow burn horror is your thing you can't go wrong with Sauna... Great movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt1124394/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Hopefully this isn't like The Village
A very creep slow burn atmospheric Horror film with really disturbing moments and an absolutely haunting conclusion. Well worth the price of admission, in fact it's my favorite film of the year(so far), I even snatched the poster after it's theater run(I work there). The audience disappointed me but the movie lived up to all my expectations, and I was really hyped for it.
great review as always. i hope you realise you have fans in england. i am subscribed to many movie reviewers but your reviews always make my day. keep up the good work mate
I feel like I'm the only person in my social circle that didn't like this movie. I do like slow-burn movies that play with your mind, take their time in building the atmosphere and don't use jump-scares. I had heard a lot of great things about the movie, but I honestly didn't find anything to like. I watched it alone at home and even then it didn't creep me out or unnerve me (and I'm very easy to scare), it couldn't draw me in at all. There wasn't much of a plot. It wasn't even explained why the family disliked each other so much, there was no way to get into the headspace of these characters. I didn't find anything especially thought-provoking about it. I liked the final scene and that's it. The rest was just very hollow to me.
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Definitely not Catholics, they're Puritans.
Wait... devout Catholics? I thought they were some variety of Puritan.
It's a shame, tho no shocker, that audiences now just don't 'get' a film like this...but the vast majority of audience members are, admittedly, not as bright as they picture themselves. Today's dumbed down populace has no patience, no understanding, no ability to conceive of anything other than 'The Fast & the Furious' and the like as entertainment, and a slow burn bit of brilliance like this sails over the heads at mach 3.
Just scroll down through any comments section right here on RUclips for hard evidence of this.
Many thanks for your insightful (as always) review here...it's appreciated, and good to know there are others out there who adore a thought provoking movie that can creep the shit out of you like this one does...
It's not a rabbit, it's a hare, but you got that right, it's scary.
only like the ending
I don't consider myself to be a drone like human,I tried really hard to like this movie. I wish I can have back my hour and a half of life bad,this movie ssssuuuuuuuccccckkkkeeeeddddd
Great review.
I hate to split hairs here, but the family in The Witch were not Catholics. They're part of a Protestant form of Christianity called Puritans.
One of my fave flicks of this year, effortlessly. So many images seared themselves into my brain, I will never forget them and I am glad I never will. The last 15 minutes was a barbed-wire laced sucker punch.
It was impossible for me to understand anything said in the movie, more-so due to the fact that everyone whispered or mumbled than that they spoke in olde english. I say, to warn any others who would watch it: subtitles
is not like The omen... the Omen is horrifying the entire time, this one puts too much effort being "historically accurate", I mean, I get it, its nice, it adds some context but it takes too long to start getting scary and stop looking like a BBC documentary. I loved the movie, Its one of few I´ve wached in the past 2 years and itoften on my mind, thats a good thing, but I can understand why people don´t enjoy it as much, it really takes ALOT of time building up.
This is a great movie, I highly, _highly_ recommend it -- and yeah, it's not a popcorn flick, it's a cerebral and genuinely creepy period piece. More than once I had to rewind because I'd been mesmerized by the wardrobe, or the set design, or the use of dialogue, or the acting performances.
But I was a little let down by the ending. "Uncomfortable" is definitely a good word for it and I get why many like it, but for me, I think I was expecting something less definitive. Wouldn't mind watching it again though because it's been a while, then see if I still feel the same or not.
This is probrably one of the only movies I'm going to see in the thearter.