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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
The Witch was stunning. I had grown tired of the wait and read the plot awhile ago, but still very effective watching it. The reviews were kind of dramatic, I didn't see any of it instilling nightmares. But watching it is unsettling. The cast was excellent too. I felt for their struggles, as a family unit and individually.
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Yes! there's a review that summed up my thoughts perfectly let me look it up:
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Because this is a horror movie, there really is a witch out there (as mentioned, we see her quite early on). But Eggers keeps you guessing as to her true meaning and what she stands for in the context of the other characters' staunch, Puritanical morality.
The Witch isn't a horror film where the scares come from big spooky jolts, or from gore. No, The Witch is a horror film that creeps up on you, spreading its tendrils slowly across the landscape of your mind. The movie's biggest scare isn't the witch; it's the idea that everything you believe might be wrong.
There are precious few movies about what happens when a fundamentalist belief system crumbles. This is partly because that's an incredibly abstract idea, one that's hard to depict on screen. But it's also just the sort of thing most movie genres struggle to depict, because it relies on audience whiplash. First it has to get you believing one thing; then it has to convince you of the exact opposite. When not executed well, it can pull the audience out of the story entirely.
Eggers's trick is that he doesn't once argue that the family is wrong to believe what they do. In a world with literal witches, such tremendous faith might be the only way to can keep the darkness at bay. But he's also careful to leave us with the thought that the witches might be seen as evil mostly because they stand for feminine power.
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Sad to see some people make horror all about cheap jump scares there's a reason no one takes horror movies seriously and that comes back to us horror fans not giving this "artsy" horror movies a chance and "not liking them". The ending made me feel like idk weird lol what I liked the most is that it feels like real you know not something that you go like lmfao!!! that could not happen!! I felt so
when the witch had the baby
I rented it on Amazon a couple of months ago.
