Scapegoat...

Rating: 2/10 (22 June 2016)

It's never really clear why the Outcasts were cast out, nor why they insist on blaming all their woes on their goat. How this group manages to build (let alone maintain) a farm is beyond me: these folks lack Common Sense in great abundance. The script (for lack of a better word) is rivaled only by the direction in terms of amateurishness. (The single scene worthy of note: a long shot of a robed figure moving through the forest cradling a newborn baby.) Perhaps it's the lack of Perspective that hurts THE WITCH: it's never really clear if the filmmaker is wagging a finger at the gullible who persist to this day in believing in Gods or Goddesses or if he's just a Fright Film fan taking his turn at bat(...), and it's this unevenness that make THE WITCH just another dreary bit of business.