The Witch (2016) movie poster

The Witch (2016)

"Evil takes many forms."
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👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
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Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Country
Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.0/10 (7,546 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
84

Cast

Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin · 74% avg
Ralph Ineson as William · 67% avg
Kate Dickie as Katherine · 66% avg
Harvey Scrimshaw as Caleb
Ellie Grainger as Mercy
Lucas Dawson as Jonas
Julian Richings as Governor · 73% avg
Bathsheba Garnett as The Witch

Is The Witch good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#15 / 1168 · Horror
Rank in its year
#6 / 295 · 2016

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Witch is a 2016 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature debut. Set in 1630s New England, the film follows a Puritan family banished from their plantation who establishes a farm on the edge of a vast, forbidding forest. When their infant son vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to fracture under suspicion that eldest daughter Thomasin, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, is a witch.

Robert Eggers meticulously researched 17th-century New England life, drawing dialogue directly from period journals and court records, creating an atmosphere of suffocating religious dread that made the supernatural elements feel historically credible rather than fantastical. Anya Taylor-Joy's breakout performance as Thomasin — a teenage girl whose natural maturation is interpreted as evidence of demonic corruption by her hysterical family — announced a major new talent. The film's final sequence was one of the most striking and discussed endings in modern horror.

The Witch earned $40 million worldwide on a $3.5 million budget.

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