Normally I would put this under my "31 (or so) Days of Terror" label, but that's exclusively for horror movies and I'm not sure The Witch is a horror movie. It has many horrific elements but the execution makes me reconsider that distinction. Its plot certainly sounds like something a more artistically inclined horror director would make, a family of Puritans in 17th Century New England find their isolated farm under siege from the titular witch and they eventually turn on each other, and director Robert Eggers delivers on that premise though in a way far more abstract than is typical or expected. And while I can appreciate the artistry and effort he & his crew put into the film, the end result didn't entirely jive for me the way it seems to for other critics.
