Good overall

Rating: 7/10 (1 July 2018)

During New England 's Puritan era, a family of six (including a pregnant mother) is banished from a community and forced to fend for themselves in the countryside. Once there, supernatural forces intensify their paranoia of witchcraft.
The story is sparse but compact. While its ending is too mysterious and leaves many holes, it is still fascinating in its own special way.
The greatest flaw in the film is that much of the dialogue is incomprehensible. It has the right intention in using old English and an older dialect. However, as some important lines are muddled, much gets lost.
Despite this flaw, the acting is quite good as are the production values. There is a suitably bleak mood that rightly surrounds a family falling apart in facing great difficulty. Their dour, paranoid views of God, Satan, and witchcraft don't help matters. One wonders if their belief systems are at least as horrific as the outside forces.
Overall, the pluses outweigh the minuses.