Looks great but do we really need another whiny lead actress?

Rating: 4/10 (5 September 2018)

This film seems very tempting, the setting and style of dress really draw you in. I was looking forward to a strong storyline about tough survivalist Puritans facing the realities of North America. Instead, we get a handwoven basket chock full o' stereotypes: the mother of the family is only a mother, and her only contribution to the storyline is her overused, stereotypical obsession with a dead infant. Because moms don't have any character of their own ya know? They just make babies. That's all. And when the babies are gone they basically implode.
The other female lead is a nasty old witch that steals babies from respectable moms. The dad's an incredulous gruff alpha male that barely tolerates all the whiny (as in, high pitched shrill wibbling that has no content, just expresses a kind of animal hysteria) antics of the women in the cast. Yuck. Why waste such incredible style on such predictable, stale characters?
the story's set in the 16th Century; that doesn't mean that we have to regress 400 years just to watch it, but that's exactly what the makers of The Witch seem to have done. I couldn't take the whining woman anymore and switched it off, myself - if that does your head in, you'll want to do the same.