The Witch sells itself on something it barely does

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2016)

The Witch is a movie that can be explained as "alright". The Witch can be quite immersive at times, but it became apparent that the director had an idea that he strayed away from at some points. It seemed like some scenes were literally added to show some imagery that added absolutely nothing to film at all. That being said, some of the scenes in this movie were disgusting and unnerving in the best way possible. Some scenes felt out of place and kind of pointless, like the siblings bickering for seemingly no reason other than to take up time. It almost felt like this should have been time used for character progression because honestly when the characters died I found myself not really caring. The film kind of went out of its way to explain everything to you and there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but when something isn't blatantly explained or shown to you when everything else was(specifically the scene when the dog died vs. when the two children were stolen by the witch at the end), it adds a disconnect in the story telling and makes me wonder why they would go out of their way to show a dead dog but not the two dead children which were the reason why the girl's parents thought she was a witch to begin with. These issues resonated with me enough to probably not give it another watch because I'll become irritated with the lack of attention to the story that this film relies on to stay remotely interesting. If more things were to happen in this movie I would probably give it a higher score but honestly not much happens and when things to happen it seems like they're just happening for the sake of happening, so I found myself not really caring about the sister scaring the little girl by the river for literally no reason. I found myself wondering why she did that the whole movie because it just screwed her over in the long run. Also, why was the goat decided to be the devil? It seemed like that was kind of random. They didn't mention that the entire movie but for some reason at the end it was the devil. When did the children talk to the goat? Like once or twice maybe. Overall, the movie sold itself on the aspect of imagery and I can say that the aspect that movie made itself so keen on showing you were one of the least prevalent things throughout the bulk of the movie. The awesome scenes only slightly outweighed the misguided story telling of literally nothing happening throughout this movie. 6/10