The Witch
Pablo Honey

Review by Pablo Honey

The Witch 2015

★★★★★

Rewatched 04 Jul 2022

I absolutely adore this film, love how the horror here is just one resource for a complex story about religious guilt and how much being a woman was - and in some ways still is - considered a crime and a sin. Thomasin is constantly punished for the simple fact of existing, constantly assaulted for growing up, for going through puberty, for making silly jokes... Everything in this family is sin, and for her the weight is even bigger. The lives of these people are completely miserable due to religious dogmas. You can tell how utterly unhappy they are just by the looks on their faces. It really shows how for so many years religion has been a martyrdom for a lot of people who are afraid to be themselves and to commit even the most meaningless mistake. The ending of this movie is one of the most satisfying, beautiful, terrifying and poetic things i've ever seen. The final scene is truly breathtaking, and the soundtrack of it - and of the movie as a whole - only elevates the talent of the incredible Robert Eggers, as it generates as much discomfort as certain scenes themselves. The Witch, for me, is one of the best horror movies of all time, and right away solidified Anya Taylor-Joy as one of the most promising actors of this generation. Here it is not necessary a lot of jumpscares and body horror, because the horror is present in simply being alive, in simply being a young woman.

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