The Witch [Blu-ray]

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suddenly a new baby boy named Samuel on the premises, and in a horrifying moment, he disappears while Thomasin has her eyes covered Plot: What’s it about? Video: How’s it look? Audio: How’s it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about? the sky, do have a somewhat more vivid appearance in this version, but not by leaps and bounds. There's a really interesting moment at circa 7:30, offering much in the way of hue. While the gray and blue tones that I mentioned in my review of the 1080p Blu-ray version are still very much in

The Witch (2015) is a stylish and creepy horror film from director Robert Eggers. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Ineson. More traumas of course accrue around the family, and in the film's final act, William seems about to go Grand Guignol on his (surviving) where you can kind of make out something happening to a baby, and this is arguably the only moment in the film that approaches a The best folk horror always worked because of its sense of the normalisation of the ‘uncanny’ – how something just a little bit... ’off’ from our everyday reality can be accepted as the norm to utterly unfathomable consequences. Be it the Festival of the Sun on Summerisle, the seemingly happenstance and everyday denouncement of ordinary women by everyone in Witchfinder General and the sinister warpings of Christianity by the children in Blood on Satan’s Claw.

Conclusion

The Witch is a masterful slice of folk horror and Second Sight has done it justice. I would have liked something deeper from the production side, but the extras provided are very good, and the film itself looks amazing. Essential for anyone’s collection. persecution), they weren't exactly a bunch of free thinking folks, allowing heterodoxy at every turn. In fact, the Puritans were, well, kind of UPDATE: Second Sight has announced that is has delayed the release to June 20th 2022, as it is currently working on a new HDR grade supervised by director Robert Eggers.

And then there are the more overt horror elements, which the film isn’t afraid of hiding. Eggers shows the witch of the woods stealing Samuel, before murdering him and slathering herself in his smushed-up body in a quite disgusting and harrowing scene. The Witch is a slow burn of sorts, but when it does get into the nastier parts, it’s gruesome and impactful and it hits you hard. generally excellent detail levels, and an often smooth, sleek appearance, but it's also been very aggressively graded and desaturated, to the point that Studios & Distributors: Parts and Labor | RT Features | Rooks Nest Entertainment | Maiden Voyage Pictures | Mott Street Pictures | Code Red Productions | Scythia Films | Pulse Films | Very Special Projects (as Special Projects) | Second Sight Films There's an overt reference to liturgically towing the line (in a manner of speaking) from the very first moments of The Witch, whennew life in a land that held promise but also immense difficulties. As writer-director Robert Eggers mentions in the commentary included on And while, yes, they had sought to escape religious persecution (or at least religion defined by others, which they may have perceived as even outright signs of graphic gore (there are a few disturbing images in the film, but they're relatively restrained, at least within the context of side of things) a goat being used, both of which suffuse the film with almost Jungian levels of meaning. The "intrusion" of the supernatural,