Out Of Your Seat Scares Weren't Necessary.

Rating: 6/10 (9 October 2016)

"The Witch" is a decent film that told the story of a seventeenth century family that was forced to find a new life outside of the New England village they called home and when trying to build that new life circumstance surrounds their lives causing them to turn on one another all stemming from the strange abduction of their new born baby. This film was intense and very disturbing but in in my opinion it could have been a little better. I wanted this film to be straight up scary but it wasn't. I think the writer/director wanted to focus more on how the family was breaking apart due to the evil that was surrounding them instead of focusing more on the evil itself, which I'm not mad at because it made this film different and a little more interesting. The horror part was kind of put to a minimum but it was just enough to keep a horror fan like myself interested. Although I say that this film could have been a little better it is kind of underrated. I think this film was brilliantly written and different from most others of its kind. If you're a true horror fan and want to see a horror film that didn't need to show too much gore and is a psychological thriller, this one is the one to watch.