A hugely assured debut, The Witch is a beautiful, bleak brainworm that will haunt you for days.
Robert Eggers’ outstanding horror story does for witches what other film-makers have done for vampires and zombies.
Strong performances but risks absurdity.
Despite echoes of The Crucible, this is painfully slow.
Robert Eggers’ measured, meticulous debut builds into one of the most genuinely scary horror movies of recent years.
Robert Eggers’s Sundance-garlanded period horror is a chilling study of fear and the devils that live within us all.
The Witch is more arthouse in its sensibilities, but is all the better and all the more memorable for it.
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