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New England in the 1630s: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their newborn son vanishes and crops fail, the family turns on one another. Beyond their worst fears, a supernatural evil lurks in the nearby wood.
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There are confident first features, and there’s The Witch, the exhilaratingly scary debut in which writer-director Robert Eggers tramples over the cowardice of the genre he’s just grabbed by the throat. Reverentially adapted from a ghoulish piece of Puritan folklore (much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim from 17th-century documents), The Witch is one of the most genuinely unnerving horror films in recent memory because Eggers has the guts to earn your fear.
A family of fundamentalist pilgrims is banished from their walled New England settlement as punishment for an undefined conflict. They’re forced to resettle in a gray stretch of field that lies on the lip of some truly sinister woods. Fresh off the boat from England and already outcasts in their adopted country, William the woodcutter (Ralph Ineson) leads his wife (Kate Dickey) and five children to the rotten clearing where they will begin again, isolated in their struggle against the elements, a fallow harvest and — most urgent of all — the paralyzing grip of their supposed sins. Before William’s brood can get comfortable and re-establish a link with the lord, their newborn is snatched into the forest with supernatural speed.
In most films, this would be the beginning of a coy flirtation with the audience, the monster remaining masked by shadows and cacophonous jolts until a grand finale arrives. Yes, there are a few jump-scares — and they’re calculated with the precision of a Swiss watch — but The Witch understands that there’s a big difference between getting under your skin and wearing you. Not only does Eggers show the creature that has stolen the baby, you watch as she pestles it into mortar, the scene typifying the film’s painterly morbidness as the light transforms the nude witch’s wrinkled flesh into an early American riff on Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.” A former production designer who can clearly work miracles on a low budget, Eggers puts just enough cards on the table that you know what he’s capable of, even though his best tricks remain firmly tucked inside his sleeve.
The film soon coheres into a homespun crucible, forming an unholy union between the rigid austerity of Stanley Kubrick and the psychosexual conviction of Nicolas Roeg. Ineson and Dickey are wrenching as flawed (and even useless) parents whose love for their children is diluted by their fear of everything else. Harvey Scrimshaw gives a possessed performance as the eldest son, and Anya Taylor-Joy is revelatory as his pubescent older sister, whose body bubbles and leaks like the devil is wringing her mid-section (and I’d be remiss to forget the family’s young twins, perhaps the cinema’s most nightmare-inducing twosome since The Shining).
The film’s isolated domesticity keeps things tight and intimate, and Eggers so fluently invites the all-consuming religious fervor to commune with his monster that new themes percolate with every composition and utterance. (“Did ye make some unholy bond with that goat!?”) The Witch is careful to invite certain ambiguities and avoid others, but the judgment it passes on its characters does not come from on high. Eggers prefers instead to ruminate on how the compulsion to live without sin might grease the wheels for it. (The film’s new-world setting naturally implicates America in the process.) A jaw-droppingly bold gift from God, The Witch is a major horror event on par with recent festival sensations like Kill List and The Babadook. Haunting doesn’t even begin to describe it.
“The Witch” may sound like a generic horror flick that’s opening too late or too early for Halloween, but this phenomenal debut feature by Robert Eggers has a singular style and tone, and its horror flows from the deepest wellsprings of human nature.
The setting is colonial New England in 1630, more than six decades before the first Salem witch trials. A fanatically religious farmer, William (Ralph Ineson), has transplanted his wife and five children from the north of England. Now he moves his family once again, from the safety of a plantation to a remote wilderness next to a forest, after being threatened with banishment by the church. “We will conquer this wilderness,” William insists. “It will not consume us.” Yet wilderness isn’t the only adversary. What threatens to consume him is an obsession with sin, born of fear and guilt, and the farmer visits his obsession on his loved ones like a spiritual plague. Exterior events heighten the family’s fear, and shake their faith, but William, followed by his wife and most of their children, are the authors of a home-grown terror that prompts them to see the oldest child, a beautiful innocent named Thomasin, as a witch, and the source of their misfortunes. (Thomasin is played by Anya Taylor-Joy; her performance is perfectly breathtaking.)
If the story’s psychodynamics are familiar, Mr. Eggers makes them seem newly discovered. The intensity of his writing and direction, as well as the eerie austerity of Jarin Blaschke’s cinematography, Craig Lathrop’s production design and Mark Korven’s music, all conspire to create a film of exceptional originality. “The Witch” won’t tickle your scarybone like commercial horror flicks hope to do; it’s serious to a fault, and uncommonly demanding in its language and Yorkshire accents. See it at the risk of your equanimity, but see it as the auspicious beginning of a filmmaking career.
Details :
Runtime: 92 min
Rating: Rated R for disturbing violent content and graphic nudity
Writer: Robert Eggers
Production: Parts and Labor
Genres: Mystery, Horror
Countries: USA, Brazil, UK, Canada
Language: English
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