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Feb 19, 2016 · The Witch: Directed by Robert Eggers. With Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Robert Eggers
- 2016-02-19
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In 1630s New England, English settler William and his family—wife Katherine, teenage daughter Thomasin, preteen son Caleb, and young fraternal twins Mercy and Jonas—are banished from a Puritan settlement over a religious dispute. They build a farm near a large, secluded forest, and Katherine bears her fifth child, Samuel. While under Thomasin's car...
Development
Eggers, who lived in New Hampshire, was inspired to write the film by his childhood fascination with witches and frequent visits to the Plimoth Plantation as a schoolboy. After unsuccessfully pitching films that were "too weird, too obscure", Eggers realized that he would have to make a more conventional film. He said at a Q&A, "If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good." Director Alfonso Cuarón read the screenplay in 2013, saying it made him "more than an...
Filming
To give the film an authentic look, Eggers shot only "with natural light and indoors, the only lighting was candles". He also chose to stylize the film's title as "The VVitch" (with two "V"s instead of a "W") in the title sequence and on posters, stating that he found this spelling in a Jacobean-erapamphlet on witchcraft, among other period-texts. In December 2013, costume designer Linda Muir joined the crew, and consulted 35 books in the Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early...
Music
Mark Korven wrote the film's score, which aimed to be "tense and dissonant" while focusing on minimalism. Eggers vetoed the use of any electronic instruments and "didn't want any traditional harmony or melody in the score"; so Korven chose to create music with atypical instruments, including the nyckelharpa and waterphone. He knew the director liked to retain a degree of creative control, so he relied on loose play centered on improvisation "so that [Eggers] could move notes around whenever h...
According to analysts, the film's impact is delivered not through scares, but by the effect of ambience and scenography. This is stylistically represented by the film's use of expressionist lighting, the use of different kinds of camera to draw thematic limits, the editing employed to hide horror from the main sight, and the soundtrack's sonic diss...
The film had its world premiere on January 27, 2015, at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was screened on September 18, 2015, in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. A24 and DirecTV Cinema acquired the film's distribution rights. As it received very positive reactions in advance screenings, the studio...
Box office
The Witchgrossed $25.1 million in the United States and Canada and $15.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total theatrical gross of $40.4 million. In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Risen and Race, and was projected to gross $5–7 million from 2,046 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $3.3 million on its first day, and $8.8 million in its opening weekend, finishing fourth at the box office behind Deadpool ($56.5 million), Kung Fu Panda 3 ($12.5 m...
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 336 reviews, with an average score of 7.8/10; the website's "critics consensus" reads: "As thought-provoking as it is visually compelling, The Witch delivers a deeply unsettling exercise in slow-building horror that suggests great things for debuting writer-director Robert Eggers." On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 based on 46 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audi...
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- Mark Korven
- $4 million
Aug 19, 2015 · The Witch Trailer 1 (2015) Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson Horror Movie HD [Official Trailer]
The Witch. HD. An isolated Puritan family comes unraveled in a scary swirl of witchcraft and possession in this horror tale. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
The Witch. A farmer relocates his family to a plot on the edge of an ominous forest. more. Starring: Anya Taylor-JoyRalph InesonKate Dickie. Director: Robert Eggers. Add CINEMAX® to any Hulu plan for an additional $9.99/month. Hulu free trial available for new and eligible returning Hulu subscribers only. Cancel anytime.
- Robert Eggers
- January 1, 2016
- Anya Taylor-Joy
Rated: 3/5 • Feb 10, 2024. Apr 20, 2023. Sep 15, 2022. In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly vanishes. The ...
Released January 23rd, 2015, 'The Witch' stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw The R movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 32 min, and received a user score of 69 (out of ...
