Pray for thy brother

Rating: 5/10 (23 January 2018)

His is a film I did not enjoy as much as my peers. It is based on folk tales from the era. A family is banished and lives on the outskirts of the forbidden forest. Their infant son goes missing and the crops fail. Dad and son go hunting and trapping in the woods. Dad is great at chopping wood, but hunting and farming doesn't go his way. There are no Native Americans in 1630 New England.
The daughter is coming of age and the son eyes her, although that doesn't seem to be an issue. Mom is overbearing and the family is preoccupied in blaming each other and the devil and accusing each other to the point I got nauseated with the whole thing. Oh yea, there is a witch in it, I think, unless it was imagination from eating bad mushrooms or something. I kept waiting for the film to get interesting and then it was over. If you like slow burn, I mean really slow burn, then this is it.
The film is a sewn together collection of tales into one so cohesiveness was not a great quality, until the very end which made an attempt to tie it all together in a me-so-clever ending. It didn't make up for the rest of the film. It reminded me of a bad production of "The Village."
This is perhaps more of an art house film, but it is being marketed as horror. For witch horror I liked "Cherry Tree" more than this one.
Guide: No swearing or sex. Brief nighttime distant nudity.