Eggers is one of my favorite modern directors and this is the first one I saw from him. Such a haunting, beautiful film. Big personal fav. Can't wait for Nosferatu
The Lighthouse is great too. I like how dedicated he is to recreating certain periods or just general environments, which obv comes from his production design background. It helps keep the audience invested
As a New Englander, I really enjoy that there is a great director with an eye for my region. Like John Carpenter is great and so is his movie "In the Mouth of Madness" but it's not really a great New England movie. It depicts New Hampshire to be like a picturesque postcard and juxtaposes that with his horror elements. I get that most people don't really care about New Hampshire but it's still kind of a boring take. Eggers, on the other hand, has these immersive movies on Puritanism and (bizarrely) lighthouse keeping that feature New England cultural touchstones in a much more interesting way.
Very much like standard grimm tales in that aspect. The horror comes from constant dread. Long shot to recommend this, I know, but the video game Little Goody Two Shoes has a very similar story to The Witch and is very much an extension of the concepts in this movie. Would highly recommend the game. Beyond making you feel constant dread, the game also forces you to make the choice between compromising your morals to fit in socially, or stand by your morals and risk being a public enemy during witch trials. It also stars a lesbian as the main character which is very much related to this moral choice. Personally I found it to be better than the witch even, and wish Robert Eggers could one day play it to see his concepts brought to complete fruition and extended further.
You seem surprised. he's been wearing a skin suit the whole time! he's not a shapeshifter, the goat is just one of his many skin suits he wears while staying skinny from SEX STUUUUUUFFF!!!!
This moment gave me chills. I thought Lucifer in this was brilliantly portrayed, the spurs on his boots as he walks, the whispered voice seducing Thomasin, perfect
@@Username2521hh I’m a woman Copernicus! The Witch is a very good movie. But people use the term masterpiece for just about anything. Movies/films can no longer be “good”, they have to be masterpieces.
Trenchant? Cromulent? Did you look up uncommon synonyms to common words in order to sound more intelligent? No, obviously not, sorry. There are just way, way, way too many pretentious words that all mean the same thing in the English language. I've spoken it all my life and suddenly seeing a word like cromulent (which youtube spellcheck doesn't even seem to accept as a word) makes me irrationally angry. Just use normal words.
The VVitch is definitely in my top 5 list of horror movies. The thought of being a pioneer settling on the frontier creeps me out, even without supernatural stuff getting involved.
Conan also mentioned Hereditary in this interview iirc. The A24 brand of horror is brilliant. I've seen like 700+ horror movies probably and The Witch is without a doubt in my top 3. Nosferatu will be amazing I bet!
A24 brand of horror isn’t a thing. It’s a distribution company. Give credit to the individual directors. And they distribute plenty of bad movies that go under the radar.
These movies are fine... But they don't Even stand a chance Against movies like The Exorcist or Don't Look Now, the lvl of creepyness of those classics hasnt been replicated.
Conan gets it! I saw it when it came out, and the biggest complaint I heard was that you had to wait for its effects to work. But that is what made this film so great. And I would mention the scene where the family leaves the community and you see that reverse shot from the wagon. It is a film about isolation and distance, and Eggers nailed it!
The Witch is a perfect example of how you don't need jump scares every ten seconds in a horror film. Yes, there are a couple in this film but they were tasteful and employed at the right time to truly scared you. But 99% of the movie scares you with mood and atmosphere. You barely even see a witch for more than 15 seconds throughout the whole movie until the end. It scares you with just the anticipation of seeing a witch. Just a brilliant film and one of my favorites. Definitely one that will be talked about for years to come
One of the aspects that grounds "The Witch" so firmly in its milleu is Eggers' historical research and copying from the transcript of at least one actual Puritan trial in his screenplay. If his dialogue felt very realistic, that's because it was.
There's a big difference between a jump scare and an underlying sense of foreboding. In other words, being startled and being frightened are two different things. And it's easy to create a jump scare; just have good enough timing to make something jump out of the dark at the right time. But an eerie atmosphere that permeates an entire film is much more difficult to achieve, and much more effective.
Very true. And I actually think a movie like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre does both of those things very well and disagree with Conan's dismissal of it. The sequels don't have the same magic but the original has an unbelievable atmosphere and a few all time great jump scares as well.
@@Dwight2744 Having never seen it, I'll take your word for it. I was thinking of Psycho, which has a couple of great jump scares (the shower scene, of course, and the reveal of Mother), but Hitchcock, being the Master of Suspense, maintains an edginess throughout that is truly unsettling.
I will never ever forget watching the VVitch with my ex gf in pitch black in her apartment and the scene at the end….wouldst thou like to live deliciously…we turned and looked at each other and I don’t think either of us had been that freaked out by a movie since we were kids. One of my favorite movie watching experiences ever and I’ve been afraid to ever rewatch it cause I know it can’t live up to the first watch without that surprise. Definitely one of my 10 favorite movies and maybe my favorite horror movie of all time, it’s just fucking eerie and ‘off’ as Conan says here.
The shot where the family leaves the village is one of my all time favorites. You can only vaguely see the houses disappear as soldiers and natives enter and the gates shut. A single shot that tells us so much about the setting and the family's predicament being ostracized.
Or upset him and choptop while they're driving around, or play chainsaw noises on the radio, or whatever the heck happened in the one with McConaughey....the more movies in you get, the more the lore kinda spreads out beyond the farmhouse
Well, it didn't really matter that the victims trespassed onto the property because the family had already marked them and were targeted from the beginning.
@@JamesGrindstaff-z5h I looked her up, thinking why the hell are they into a woman from the 70s, and I see she’s born after the Texas Chainsaw massacre came out. Y’all seriously talking about a remake? Instead of talking about the original, the only good Texas Chainsaw Movie.
I remember stepping out of a screening of The Witch feeling giddy because I just watched a horror film that scared the living fuck out of me. And that rarely happened before.
That's why Conan is my favourite. A man who loves The Witch? Gosh, that's a man after my heart. This film took roots in my mind when I watched it in the cinemas, on my birthday, and I haven't been able to shake it off since. Perhaps Egger's upcoming Nosferatu might strike me like The Witch did!
Haneke is like the master of making ordinary things feel unordinary. Also Von Trier have some of the most beautifull and at the same time haunting shots.
The VVITCH was brilliant. I was even scared of the creepy twins who were talking to the devil goat the whole time and just being generally bizarre lol. When the kid dies after coming home and he sees god. That was tremendous acting for that little lad. And the dad played by Finchy from the office. What a voice on that guy lol.
Robert Eggers is a brilliant filmmaker. I love his style, he doesn't rely on tired tropes, ADHD style cinematography, jump scares or cheap tricks. His movies are smart and rich in story and atmosphere, which is so refreshing in today's terrible modern Hollywood
Absolutely brilliant film. And the shot composition and cinematography is incredible, but not in an annoying art-house kind of way. Just legitimately scary the way the camera lingers on shots, and how the forest is shown as a dark, tangled, and oppressive wilderness. Just brilliant, every second of it. And it has a great twist.
Conan nails my thoughts on good horror. A schlocky slasher is fun sometimes, but the horror that actually sticks with me beyond cheap jumpscares and shocking violence are these kinds of movies that understand less is more. Whatever my imagination is cooking up about insinuated threats that we can't see in a film is usually much scarier than what we actually see.
I remember first half of the movie during my first watch thinking the actor playing the son was miscast, like he didn't have the chops for it... and just then, his possessed soliloquy: PERFECTION and truly frightening!
kiyoshi kurosawa is the master of this. giving an eerie, uncanny quality to everyday objects and routines because of the atmosphere he creates in his movies. CREEPY (2016) gave a foreboding, something-bad-is-amiss vibe to the crackling of an empty grocery bag in particular.
The great part about the witch is how it demonstrates on a whole different level how scary settling land would've been. Just you and your family alone in total wilderness. Any other **friendly** people could be miles and miles away. Who knows what's in the woods, who knows what kind of unknown voodoo you've stumbled into. But no matter what no one's coming to help you.
I just watched this film last night for the first time and it was such a great film and a masterclass of how to handle atmosphere and tension in a horror movie. I know this isn't really anything new to say but A24 might just be one of my favorite film studios of all time and were such a breath of fresh air during the 2010's which was when corporate franchise movies were starting to crop up everywhere and it started getting really boring but then smaller indie studios like A24 and NEON were pumping out these high-quality movies that were both creative and original.
I NEVER found this movie THAT SCARY (but then again, hardly ANY MEDIA actually scares me anymore) but I still recognize it as been INCREDIBLY WELL-CRAFTED and has just an ominous, “heavy” atmosphere that LINGERS over the entire film. Definitely one of the “better” (if not best) horror films I’ve seen from this past decade.
I would call it dreadful. It had a sense of foreboding throughout where you know things are just going to continue to get worse for the characters, it's just a question of what and how.
I agree with Conan's sentiment in general but disagree with his dismissal of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the original you get the best of both worlds with an unnerving tone and atmosphere and and some all time great jump scare scenes as well. It's a lot more than just explicit gore.
agree, it's an amazing movie, even filmmakers like Scorsese, Spielberg, Friedkin have sung its praises. The final few minutes (especially the ending shot of the film) are so intense and unforgettable
Typically speaking, for slasher films to work, the protagonists have to be borderline "slow". That's the issue I have with them. 90% of the films can be solved by "just don't answer the door" or "just run away". Not all, but by and large most of the slasher films require brain dead decision making to keep the plot going. Some supernatural movies do that too, of course.... but to a lesser degree
I 100% agree with Conan... Another movie that does the same thing to me is Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" starring Willem Dafoe. It has an unsettling eeriness that stuck with me for a while. BTW I was in my mid-40s when I watched it the first time and I seen just about all horror films.
yep, I've become a horror fan recently because so many creative directors are using the genre as a playground for their creativity... I don't care at all for gore and jump-scares, but I'm loving this new trend of more cerebral stylized horror.
Finally, yall got someone who isnt a director or a writer. Conan is actually a writer in Hollywood and it's how it got his start. I watched this the other day and it's start scary because it could actually happen!!! There have been demonic possessions and curses on people and that's why you never wish death on someone. It always comes back to haunt you!!! The Witch is a masterpiece is part of the "Horror renaissance" with movies like HEREDITARY AND MIDSUMMAR. Those movies really fucked my brain up. 🖤
Yes, agreed. What scares you or strongly disturbs you is what does it for you. For me, the slasher movies w/ the chasing person, mask or not, knife/chainsaw/whatever is not particularly scary unless there's some twist to it. As a teen, Freddie Kruege scared me some cuz he came in your dreams when you're really pretty defenseless. But movies where you sense things are off, when ordinarily innocuous settings/objects/nature are clearly off in some sinister/ warped way, plus some character(s) are too, that deep psychological effect is far more disturbing to me. Don't Look Now, Midsommar, The Lighthouse, Get Out, Magic, You Are Not Alone, The Innocents all have that.
1:22 whoaaaa I never noticed that. I never noticed that shot! maybe it's the compression of the video file? I never noticed the face in the trees. that's _really_ cool. that's a nightmare, right there.
John Vervaeke claims this is the difference between horror and terror. Many “horror” movies actually focus on terrifying you. Whereas horror is something more subtly unsettling which you can’t quite pinpoint.
He's right about horror being superior in the modern era. In other genres people may yearn for the 'classics'. But I truly believe this era right now is when we are seeing the classics in horror being made.
@@davidmstephenson69 I read that it had something to do with primitive versions of the printing press and they'd use two consecutive Vs to make a W. Eggers liked the way it looked and used that style for the credits... or something like that. But either way, it still adds to my argument that the letter W should be pronounced "Double-V" instead of "Double-U." It makes more sense and sounds way cooler!
Wow. Conan and I are the same. I became desensitised by these gory and wanton violence in horror movies. I like the more creepy and eerie type. To me, what's not being shown on it's entirety is far more scarier than a ghost or a monster that pops up every 10 minutes on the screen
Everyone rags on Skinamarink for being boring, but I liken it to a nightmare put on film. Everything is off-kilter in that movie and you can’t even explain what happened afterwards… Just a feeling of dread the more you think about it. It’s one of my all-time favorites
Eggers is one of my favorite modern directors and this is the first one I saw from him. Such a haunting, beautiful film. Big personal fav. Can't wait for Nosferatu
The Lighthouse is great too. I like how dedicated he is to recreating certain periods or just general environments, which obv comes from his production design background. It helps keep the audience invested
Agreed. I didn't have much interest in Nosferatu until I saw it was him.
As a New Englander, I really enjoy that there is a great director with an eye for my region.
Like John Carpenter is great and so is his movie "In the Mouth of Madness" but it's not really a great New England movie. It depicts New Hampshire to be like a picturesque postcard and juxtaposes that with his horror elements. I get that most people don't really care about New Hampshire but it's still kind of a boring take.
Eggers, on the other hand, has these immersive movies on Puritanism and (bizarrely) lighthouse keeping that feature New England cultural touchstones in a much more interesting way.
Hell yes. I can't wait for Nosferatu!!
@@joel5956 You know the Witch was shot in Mattawa, Ontario, Canada, right?
The Witch is a masterclass in dread. You feel it in every single fucking shot.
Very much like standard grimm tales in that aspect. The horror comes from constant dread.
Long shot to recommend this, I know, but the video game Little Goody Two Shoes has a very similar story to The Witch and is very much an extension of the concepts in this movie. Would highly recommend the game. Beyond making you feel constant dread, the game also forces you to make the choice between compromising your morals to fit in socially, or stand by your morals and risk being a public enemy during witch trials. It also stars a lesbian as the main character which is very much related to this moral choice.
Personally I found it to be better than the witch even, and wish Robert Eggers could one day play it to see his concepts brought to complete fruition and extended further.
Cant wait for Eggers' version or NOSFERATU!
It was fantastic
Wasn’t expecting this one.
Makes more sense if you consider it takes place in New England where Conan is from.
Conan has taste. I'm not surprised. 😂😂
It's because Conan practises witchcraft and has an evil pet goat
“Wouldst thou like to live...deliciously?” whispers the well-dressed man in black from the shadows, moments after shapeshifting from a goat.
"Wouldst thou like a...glow up?" hisses the black snake from under the leaves.
You seem surprised. he's been wearing a skin suit the whole time! he's not a shapeshifter, the goat is just one of his many skin suits he wears while staying skinny from SEX STUUUUUUFFF!!!!
😳 supernatural-spiritual-HORRIFYING!!
This moment gave me chills. I thought Lucifer in this was brilliantly portrayed, the spurs on his boots as he walks, the whispered voice seducing Thomasin, perfect
I wanna buy a black goat just to name it “Black Phillip”
“The Witch” is a masterpiece.
Everything is a “masterpiece” these days.
@@Username2521hh I’m a woman Copernicus! The Witch is a very good movie. But people use the term masterpiece for just about anything. Movies/films can no longer be “good”, they have to be masterpieces.
No it's not. It's overrated.
@@shamusteakiawawhy cause you, a nobody loser said so? Please, your life is overrated son.
@@selinakyle2368if you’re over 40 you could def pass for a grandpa.
That black goat is scarier than any slasher bad guy ever.
One of my all time favorites. Conan has good taste.
Ever see the original Japanese movie Dark Water? Same effect.. creepy as heck
@@guaporeturns9472 the invisible man, the new one did an amazing job with the same type of scare
Not who I was expecting to talk about this film. But trenchant, cromulent points from our Conan.
His analysis embiggened my appreciation.
Trenchant? Cromulent? Did you look up uncommon synonyms to common words in order to sound more intelligent?
No, obviously not, sorry. There are just way, way, way too many pretentious words that all mean the same thing in the English language. I've spoken it all my life and suddenly seeing a word like cromulent (which youtube spellcheck doesn't even seem to accept as a word) makes me irrationally angry. Just use normal words.
@@bagggers9796 Wow, the use of the totally real word “cromulent” seems to have really enragenificated you!
@@bagggers9796 With all due respect, eat my shorts.
@@bagggers9796that’s the joke. Are you insecure about big words or something?
The Witch is an absolute masterpiece, and will only gain more and more acclaim as the years pass. It’s wonderful.
The VVitch is definitely in my top 5 list of horror movies. The thought of being a pioneer settling on the frontier creeps me out, even without supernatural stuff getting involved.
Conan also mentioned Hereditary in this interview iirc. The A24 brand of horror is brilliant. I've seen like 700+ horror movies probably and The Witch is without a doubt in my top 3. Nosferatu will be amazing I bet!
Hereditary is pure evil. I’ll never watch that or allow it im my house again. Never felt such a strong presence of evil im my life.
A24 brand of horror isn’t a thing. It’s a distribution company. Give credit to the individual directors. And they distribute plenty of bad movies that go under the radar.
These movies are fine... But they don't Even stand a chance Against movies like The Exorcist or Don't Look Now, the lvl of creepyness of those classics hasnt been replicated.
@@mattwoolley 😄😆😂🤣
@@mattwoolley kneelers are such unbelievable funny parodies of a XXI century human beings
Conan gets it! I saw it when it came out, and the biggest complaint I heard was that you had to wait for its effects to work. But that is what made this film so great. And I would mention the scene where the family leaves the community and you see that reverse shot from the wagon. It is a film about isolation and distance, and Eggers nailed it!
The Witch is a perfect example of how you don't need jump scares every ten seconds in a horror film. Yes, there are a couple in this film but they were tasteful and employed at the right time to truly scared you. But 99% of the movie scares you with mood and atmosphere. You barely even see a witch for more than 15 seconds throughout the whole movie until the end. It scares you with just the anticipation of seeing a witch. Just a brilliant film and one of my favorites. Definitely one that will be talked about for years to come
Conan is far more intelligent than people often realize.
One of the aspects that grounds "The Witch" so firmly in its milleu is Eggers' historical research and copying from the transcript of at least one actual Puritan trial in his screenplay. If his dialogue felt very realistic, that's because it was.
It's what gets me stoked for his remake of Nosferatu
The Witch is a banger. Just brilliant.
The Witch was a masterclass in atmosphere, cinematography and scene blocking imo.
There's a big difference between a jump scare and an underlying sense of foreboding. In other words, being startled and being frightened are two different things. And it's easy to create a jump scare; just have good enough timing to make something jump out of the dark at the right time. But an eerie atmosphere that permeates an entire film is much more difficult to achieve, and much more effective.
Very true. And I actually think a movie like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre does both of those things very well and disagree with Conan's dismissal of it. The sequels don't have the same magic but the original has an unbelievable atmosphere and a few all time great jump scares as well.
@@Dwight2744 Having never seen it, I'll take your word for it. I was thinking of Psycho, which has a couple of great jump scares (the shower scene, of course, and the reveal of Mother), but Hitchcock, being the Master of Suspense, maintains an edginess throughout that is truly unsettling.
@@davidwalter2002 That's another great example.👍
@@Dwight2744 Well ... Hitchcock....
Watch the Japanese made Dark Water
I will never ever forget watching the VVitch with my ex gf in pitch black in her apartment and the scene at the end….wouldst thou like to live deliciously…we turned and looked at each other and I don’t think either of us had been that freaked out by a movie since we were kids. One of my favorite movie watching experiences ever and I’ve been afraid to ever rewatch it cause I know it can’t live up to the first watch without that surprise. Definitely one of my 10 favorite movies and maybe my favorite horror movie of all time, it’s just fucking eerie and ‘off’ as Conan says here.
The shot where the family leaves the village is one of my all time favorites. You can only vaguely see the houses disappear as soldiers and natives enter and the gates shut. A single shot that tells us so much about the setting and the family's predicament being ostracized.
There seem to be a lot of film buff comedians out there!
Good comedians have excellent observation and analytical skills.
The Witch is a beautiful, unsettling film. I need to watch it again soon!
the rules for Leatherface are dont trespass into his farmhouse
Or upset him and choptop while they're driving around, or play chainsaw noises on the radio, or whatever the heck happened in the one with McConaughey....the more movies in you get, the more the lore kinda spreads out beyond the farmhouse
@@karl_alan i liked the parts that had Daddario in them
Well, it didn't really matter that the victims trespassed onto the property because the family had already marked them and were targeted from the beginning.
@@LastTorgoInParis I like all parts of Daddario.
@@JamesGrindstaff-z5h I looked her up, thinking why the hell are they into a woman from the 70s, and I see she’s born after the Texas Chainsaw massacre came out.
Y’all seriously talking about a remake?
Instead of talking about the original, the only good Texas Chainsaw Movie.
I remember stepping out of a screening of The Witch feeling giddy because I just watched a horror film that scared the living fuck out of me. And that rarely happened before.
That's why Conan is my favourite. A man who loves The Witch? Gosh, that's a man after my heart. This film took roots in my mind when I watched it in the cinemas, on my birthday, and I haven't been able to shake it off since. Perhaps Egger's upcoming Nosferatu might strike me like The Witch did!
Love to hear my favorite person talk about my favorite movie genre.
Haneke is like the master of making ordinary things feel unordinary. Also Von Trier have some of the most beautifull and at the same time haunting shots.
The VVITCH was brilliant. I was even scared of the creepy twins who were talking to the devil goat the whole time and just being generally bizarre lol. When the kid dies after coming home and he sees god. That was tremendous acting for that little lad. And the dad played by Finchy from the office. What a voice on that guy lol.
Conan really loves this movie, and that tree line. Probably reminds him of Kitchener Leslie
Wonderful film! Can't wait to rewatch it for a midnight screening this Halloween!
Conan constantly watching the VVitch is cracking me up
The wideangle shot scene with the trees is brilliant!!
Robert Eggers is a brilliant filmmaker. I love his style, he doesn't rely on tired tropes, ADHD style cinematography, jump scares or cheap tricks. His movies are smart and rich in story and atmosphere, which is so refreshing in today's terrible modern Hollywood
Absolutely brilliant film. And the shot composition and cinematography is incredible, but not in an annoying art-house kind of way. Just legitimately scary the way the camera lingers on shots, and how the forest is shown as a dark, tangled, and oppressive wilderness. Just brilliant, every second of it. And it has a great twist.
What is an example of a movie that is incredible in an annoying way?
@@DichotomousRex terrible films that have overstayed, lingering shots: skinamarink, signs, drive, anything ever made by David Mamet.
was lucky to watch it in the theater.
It got under my skin. Perfect time period, good acting, creepy good witch movie 👍
The witch was scary af. Didnt expect it at 2 am while scrolling through prime video a whole ago
Conan nails my thoughts on good horror. A schlocky slasher is fun sometimes, but the horror that actually sticks with me beyond cheap jumpscares and shocking violence are these kinds of movies that understand less is more. Whatever my imagination is cooking up about insinuated threats that we can't see in a film is usually much scarier than what we actually see.
I remember first half of the movie during my first watch thinking the actor playing the son was miscast, like he didn't have the chops for it... and just then, his possessed soliloquy: PERFECTION and truly frightening!
kiyoshi kurosawa is the master of this. giving an eerie, uncanny quality to everyday objects and routines because of the atmosphere he creates in his movies. CREEPY (2016) gave a foreboding, something-bad-is-amiss vibe to the crackling of an empty grocery bag in particular.
The great part about the witch is how it demonstrates on a whole different level how scary settling land would've been.
Just you and your family alone in total wilderness. Any other **friendly** people could be miles and miles away. Who knows what's in the woods, who knows what kind of unknown voodoo you've stumbled into. But no matter what no one's coming to help you.
Another gem, the newer Suspiria … another witch movie. These two are my favorites.
Did anyone else read this as Conan O'Brien in The Witch??
This movie was so beautifully shot.
Just a great and creepy movie!
I loved this movie so much I’m afraid to rewatch it 😂
He's explaining exactly what I love about the horror genre.
Scary atmospheric feeling,fear of unknown one of strongest human feelings,love those types of horror movies...Witch is one of those movies,love IT
Thank you for this. I adore Conan O'Brien and The VVitch is one of my favorite films.
I just watched this film last night for the first time and it was such a great film and a masterclass of how to handle atmosphere and tension in a horror movie.
I know this isn't really anything new to say but A24 might just be one of my favorite film studios of all time and were such a breath of fresh air during the 2010's which was when corporate franchise movies were starting to crop up everywhere and it started getting really boring but then smaller indie studios like A24 and NEON were pumping out these high-quality movies that were both creative and original.
0:11 "I agree" Lol Conan hasn't even said his point yet dude, chill out
Sounds like he’s cock munching 😂😂Conan’s opinion is valid tho
It's slmost like he was anticipating what he was going to say, as we all do every day.
Lmfao are you really like this?
Ha ha ha
Just imagine if any aspect of this film was plucked directly from your life
it's honestly a materpiece and i'm glad Conan agrees
The Witch is an excellent movie. Literally one of my favorites.
Blair Witch and The Witch
Both movies with lots of ominous trees. Conan is afraid of trees
You are a tree
He’s afraid of nature, because it’s outside where the sun is.
@@godofspacetime333He is also tall and wispy like a tree. Maybe he fears being chopped down?
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 I assumed it was because they're the only things taller than him, but that makes sense too.
I'm on the same page. Atmosphere is what got to me the most now that I'm an adult, instead of blood and gore.
The Witch is fantastic. The ending is superb.
I NEVER found this movie THAT SCARY (but then again, hardly ANY MEDIA actually scares me anymore) but I still recognize it as been INCREDIBLY WELL-CRAFTED and has just an ominous, “heavy” atmosphere that LINGERS over the entire film.
Definitely one of the “better” (if not best) horror films I’ve seen from this past decade.
I would call it dreadful. It had a sense of foreboding throughout where you know things are just going to continue to get worse for the characters, it's just a question of what and how.
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YES, that’s a really good word for it.
Watch this one called You won’t Be Alone. It’s so unsettling about a witch that shape shifts. So eerie and creepy, but good!
yay! this is my favorite of all the modern horror movies.
I agree with Conan's sentiment in general but disagree with his dismissal of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the original you get the best of both worlds with an unnerving tone and atmosphere and and some all time great jump scare scenes as well. It's a lot more than just explicit gore.
agree, it's an amazing movie, even filmmakers like Scorsese, Spielberg, Friedkin have sung its praises. The final few minutes (especially the ending shot of the film) are so intense and unforgettable
Typically speaking, for slasher films to work, the protagonists have to be borderline "slow". That's the issue I have with them. 90% of the films can be solved by "just don't answer the door" or "just run away". Not all, but by and large most of the slasher films require brain dead decision making to keep the plot going.
Some supernatural movies do that too, of course.... but to a lesser degree
It's so weird hearing him in a serious conversation.. but the witch is a superior movie
Just when I thought Conan couldn't get any cooler.
I 100% agree with Conan... Another movie that does the same thing to me is Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" starring Willem Dafoe. It has an unsettling eeriness that stuck with me for a while. BTW I was in my mid-40s when I watched it the first time and I seen just about all horror films.
🎵 What are the rules? What are the ruuuules? 🎶
The Witch has been on my list to see for years now...
The Witch is probably the best horror movie I've ever seen.
He is spot on about this sentiment. Nice one, Con
I feel like Shyamalan's The Village did a pretty good job with the "something is off" vibe. Ari Aster's Midsommar too.
I still remember the first time watching The Witch. It's a horror masterpiece, but I never watched it again.
yep, I've become a horror fan recently because so many creative directors are using the genre as a playground for their creativity... I don't care at all for gore and jump-scares, but I'm loving this new trend of more cerebral stylized horror.
The best story about Witches. Not just movies, the best stories.
Now I have to watch it
Finally, yall got someone who isnt a director or a writer. Conan is actually a writer in Hollywood and it's how it got his start. I watched this the other day and it's start scary because it could actually happen!!! There have been demonic possessions and curses on people and that's why you never wish death on someone. It always comes back to haunt you!!! The Witch is a masterpiece is part of the "Horror renaissance" with movies like HEREDITARY AND MIDSUMMAR. Those movies really fucked my brain up. 🖤
Yes, agreed. What scares you or strongly disturbs you is what does it for you. For me, the slasher movies w/ the chasing person, mask or not, knife/chainsaw/whatever is not particularly scary unless there's some twist to it. As a teen, Freddie Kruege scared me some cuz he came in your dreams when you're really pretty defenseless. But movies where you sense things are off, when ordinarily innocuous settings/objects/nature are clearly off in some sinister/ warped way, plus some character(s) are too, that deep psychological effect is far more disturbing to me. Don't Look Now, Midsommar, The Lighthouse, Get Out, Magic, You Are Not Alone, The Innocents all have that.
When people talk about the modern Horror Renaissance, I always point to this movie being the start of it. Absolute horror masterpiece.
I've yet to see much of anything that even shares the same ballpark as Eggers' movies, he alone is the horror movie renaissance (as far as I know).
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whoaaaa I never noticed that. I never noticed that shot! maybe it's the compression of the video file? I never noticed the face in the trees. that's _really_ cool. that's a nightmare, right there.
Robert Eggers and Ari Aster are probably the two best upcoming writers/ directors
Not upcoming at this point.
John Vervaeke claims this is the difference between horror and terror. Many “horror” movies actually focus on terrifying you. Whereas horror is something more subtly unsettling which you can’t quite pinpoint.
He's right about horror being superior in the modern era. In other genres people may yearn for the 'classics'. But I truly believe this era right now is when we are seeing the classics in horror being made.
I think he's giving credit to other movies that only Robert Eggers has earned TBH
Easily one of my favorites ☝🏾
I will never pronounce this as "witch" and you cant convince me i should
The Viv-itch? (The VVitch pronounced phonetically.)
If so, than me too!
@@ArcherSuh4721 haha yeah. Like Vitch with a stutter
No W in the alphabet in them days apparently.
@@ChicCanyon Exactly! If they didn't want us to call the movie that, don't spell it The VVitch!
@@davidmstephenson69 I read that it had something to do with primitive versions of the printing press and they'd use two consecutive Vs to make a W. Eggers liked the way it looked and used that style for the credits... or something like that.
But either way, it still adds to my argument that the letter W should be pronounced "Double-V" instead of "Double-U." It makes more sense and sounds way cooler!
Conan’s the only one who watched the witch for the tree line shots
One of my favorite films from him
I would love for Eggers to remake both Halloween and The Fog. I'm sure Carpenter would be proud.
Wow. Conan and I are the same. I became desensitised by these gory and wanton violence in horror movies. I like the more creepy and eerie type. To me, what's not being shown on it's entirety is far more scarier than a ghost or a monster that pops up every 10 minutes on the screen
Featuring Finchy from The Office!
One of my favourite horror films!
The innocent girl surrounded by elemental evil --- scary as hell -- but then to find out so is not quite so innocent -- brilliant.
the best talk show host like the best horror movie.
The Witch is definitely in my top three horror movies.
Totally agree with Conan on this one.
I worked on the set of this movie, they filmed in near my home town
Good movie. Unsettling in a subtle way that makes one feel uneasy and dreadful.
Everyone rags on Skinamarink for being boring, but I liken it to a nightmare put on film. Everything is off-kilter in that movie and you can’t even explain what happened afterwards… Just a feeling of dread the more you think about it. It’s one of my all-time favorites
Of course TCM has rules.
The main rule is: RUN! FOR CHRIST’S SAKE RUN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
Okay...that made me legitimately laugh
Nosferatu looks great. I love all of Eggers movies.
Loved the Ritual too
Robert Eggers is an absolute GOAT
A masterpiece.