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Lo! Tis a traveller upon this land, land which God hath provided for mine family for to us to have to live and till, that we should be blessed by the bounty of the soil! We welcome thine weary body to take sit by the warm hearth that be this day’s episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, a tale that doth travel long to the earliest days of American settlers, the Robert Eggers modern classic of arthouse horror dubbed The Witch!
In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly vanishes. The family blames Thomasin, the oldest daughter who was watching the boy at the time of his disappearance. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, twin siblings Mercy and Jonas suspect Thomasin of witchcraft, testing the clan’s faith, loyalty and love to one another.
Join Clay and Amanda as they bring forth accusations of the most devilish sort, with ye olde baby murder, ye olde wood cutting as anger management, ye olde woodland cleavage demon, ye olde talking goat, and of course thine cup runneth over with parenting of the most questionable sort!
The Witch is one of the first high watermarks in the more arthouse-inclined horror subgenre that took hold in the second half of the last decade along with titles like It Follows and Hereditary. It also serves as the world’s introduction to Anya Taylor-Joy, in a fantastic performance that helps make The Witch one of the more unique and memorable horror movies in recent memory. Low on gore but high on creeps, The Witch is the perfect film to put on when the nights are extra chilly, and all the leaves have fallen from the trees.
So beware the witch of the woods, puke up some apples, and scrawl your name into Black Philip’s book with us…if you DARE!