One of the worst horror movies I've seen

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2016)

I'm a big fan of the horror movie genre and I was excited to see this. The whole '1630s New England' thing and witchcraft interested me, but I knew I would be thoroughly disappointed from about 45 minutes into the movie.
The movie falls flat miserably and has very slow pacing with no pay- off. The acting was very mediocre at best. The only noteworthy performance was Anya Taylor-Joy, but obviously that wasn't enough. The actual writing had no ambition and I feel like the director took too many conservative options with the story just to be safe. This resulted in no significant set-pieces to happen to create tension or any kind of suspension or mystery. My biggest con is the non- existent soundtrack. A fundamental element of the horror genre is the gripping soundtrack but this movie just didn't have any. Because of this, many parts between segments were just stagnant. Cinematography was poor as well. They could've done a good job at capturing the wickedness of the forest, but they showed no ambition at doing that.
Overall, an extremely lacklustre and unambitious movie. Considering this is 6.8 which is very good for a horror movie - this, according to me, is highly overrated.
FINAL IMDb RATING: 1/10 - AVOID