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7.0
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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
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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
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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
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Mikkel Milner
rated 8

Unsettling and ominous

8 months 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
Bathsheba Garnett
As The Witch

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What is The Witch about? Toggle content

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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You can stream The Witch on: Apple TV Amazon Store Fandango at Home

What movies are similar to The Witch? Toggle content

Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Witch include Dune: Part One, The Craft: Legacy, It Chapter Two, Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil, The Keeping Hours, The House at the End of Time.

When was The Witch released in theaters? Toggle content

The Witch was released in theaters on February 19, 2016.