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'The VVitch': Creepy on all sorts of levels . . .

Posted by Billy Wonka on February 19, 2016 at 14:45:38:
Not so much a horror movie as a Creep Fest. This naturally lighted film is very dark and gray with unsettling imagery with almost every swivel of the camera.

It's 1630 and the walled community of settlers don't agree with William's brand of preaching the Bible. The town council decides to banish William and Katherine with all their children from the safety of their walls to the wilderness outside.

They decide, after considerable travel, that they have found their place on the edge of a great wood. They settle, build, plant crops, and find time to make a few more kids. Then, things start to change. Subtly, at first, then horribly as the movie progresses. A witch in the wood starts to effect their lives first with the disappearance of their infant child.

The beauty of this film, if you can call it that, is the authenticity of costume, settings, housing, language, and thought. I had a few problems understanding some of the dialog and the circle of witches were speaking an Enochian language. This is where the "creep" factor comes in. The witch is creepy, the wood is creepy, their livestock goes creepy, and their teen-aged daughter (Any Joy-Taylor) goes creepy at the end. Horror is not the word I would use to describe this film. Good, sustained creepiness substitutes nicely for me.

Would I recommend this? Not sure. This film is far above the Blair Witch school of "horror" but won't give you nightmares. If a person likes a bit of a scare then see it otherwise wait for cable.

As an aside, this film show's the total immersion into religion Puritans practiced. It was amazing they could get anything done for all the reverence and praying. That was really creepy in itself.

3 outta 5.