Such a waste...

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2016)

This movie was truly awful. The story, well, lets be honest, what story? A family was exiled from their village. They're living alone in the wilderness. The baby gets snatched (presumably by a witch? you never really know). The son goes out into the woods he gets snatched but given back and dies an odd death. They accuse the oldest daughter of being a witch. She accuses the twins of being witches because they talk to "Black Phillip" one of the families goats. The twins die, the dad dies, the mom dies. The daughter is the only one left. She starts hearing Black Phillip speak. She walks into the woods naked and joins a group of other women dancing naked around a fire. The end. What...did...I...just...watch. Up until the ending credits I was still waiting for the story to get good. That never happened. There was nothing scary about this, nothing psychological. It was boring plain and simple.
The worst part of the movie was having to listen to the truly awful dialect. You can't replace "the" with "thee" and call it colonial English. It just doesn't work that way. Part way through the movie I just started to read subtitles because it was more bearable to read it then to hear it.
The costumes, location, and cinematic were on par with The Village. Nothing fancy, nothing good. I heard people say it was on the same level as Crimson Peak. I don't know what movie those people watched but it was certainly not up to that caliber.
I really have nothing good or positive to say about this. I wish I could have that time of my life back to watch a better movie.