Doesn't quite come together

Rating: 3/10 (4 December 2016)

First of all, there are no special effects, so don't think you'll see anything cool. A man is unwilling to compromise his religious beliefs so he dooms his whole family by leaving town, which is ironic because religious persecution is why these people left England in the first place. As they set up a farm in the boondocks, a witch or a wolf or a goat may or may not be responsible for a string of misfortunes, a missing baby, a bewitched child, and a mother-daughter tiff. The family is torn apart as they accuse each other of being witches, and by this point the film has turned into a literal witch hunt, a miniature version of the salem witch trials. One wonders where the witch came from, if she emigrated from england like everyone else or if she was already living in north America when the settlers arrived; alas this issue is never explored and by the end the naked daughter walks into the woods and floats into the air with a bunch of other naked women. No, it's not even the least bit scary.