The VVitch (2015)
Thursday, October 8
A slow-burn, The Witch focuses its energy on creating a realistic interpretation of a European family's homestead in 1630s Massachusetts, and less on jump-scares or gore. When unexplained things start happening around their farm, the religious family suspects evil forces living in the surrounding woods. Anya Taylor-Joy's first starring role in a major film, she plays the eldest daughter who the family starts to suspect is a witch. As bad things continue to happen, what will her parents' religious fervor cause them to do? And is she, maybe, really a witch?