I suspect those who gave this only 1 star, are as shallow as mud.

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2018)

This is an amazing movie that I've watched 3 times already. Yes, it is a little difficult to fully understand the actors as they are speaking in an Old English accent, but it just adds to the authenticity. For those who rate it only 1 Star, they never watched the movie, watched only 15 minutes of it, or are the top of guy who loves to jerk off to gun magazines. They would rather see Saw, Saw 2, Saw 3, Saw 4, and so on. Only blood, gore and guts gets these trolls off. Perhaps if they watched it with an open mind, they would appreciate the beauty of this film.
This was never about the evil witch in the woods, this was about the cultural and familial pressures that cause an otherwise innocent and good Christian girl to turn bad. A witch may have killed some people she loves, but she isn't turning towards a new family of women or serving the witches, she's turning towards a life of serving herself. Now that she's alone, she can be free, and must do something to save herself. Rules did nothing for her, and now she will live without them.
This is a movie about how you make witches, and the woman on the movie posters and dvd case is not the witch coming from the woods to do harm, it's Thomasin walking into the dreaded wild, away from God, away from oppressive, controlling Puritan society, and away from the bitter, painful life of pioneers and colonists that has won her nothing but loneliness, hunger, and abuse. The movie closes on her ecstatic face as she literally defies the rule of gravity, for the first time totally, completely free.