Unconnected Storyline

Rating: 4/10 (30 September 2016)

The storyline is as follows: a family is evicted from a village for being too Puritan. They end up alone is a field close to a forest and setup their new home. The baby is kidnapped by a witch and turned into a witch brew, another boy of said family is seduced by a younger witch and through a slow process killed after he returned to his family. Whilst this is going on, the family gets increasingly tensed: the elder sister feels guilty for having lost the baby under her supervision, the father for having sold mom's golden cup for badly needed hunting gear, the mom is upset for the loss of her golden cup because of emotional value, the remaining two young kids build up a mistrust against their elder sister. The family falls apart, they end up dead and the elder sister gets lured into becoming a witch herself by Satan, who hid in the shape of their black pet goat.
And that's it. You'd think it would be obvious that the influence of the witches destabilized their family, and of course such is the case, but that reason was very weakly implemented. This family could have easily been destabilized by events far less mystical. The kidnappings by the witches was just an arbitrary angle to the story. Again, in reality, nothing happened, other than a family increasingly becoming dysfunctional and a few cool shots with witches (three short scenes in total, so don't get your hopes up).
The movie is rated "R" for disturbing images and explicit nudity. I honestly have no clue what disturbing images they were aiming at. And the little bit of nudity was done so clinically, it's not worth mentioning. I hope it says a lot coming from me, because usually I complain about unnecessary nudity in movies.
More people than I have imagined seem to like jump-scares, and this is not that kind of a movie (thankfully, I despise that cheap technique). Nor is it a slasher though what happened to the baby leaves only little to your imagination. so no slashing and no jump-scaring, instead it was a slow movie trying to have a developing story towards the climax. That's the keyword here, slow.
Technically it's all fine, though I heard some complaints about the music or sound. My only complaint is the sound at the very end where the witches gather and chant their evil chants. The sound was too much post-processed, making it sound as if the microphone was too close to them. But other than that, that final scene was cool. So technically a minor glitch there is the message I was trying to bring across. Acting and whatnot was fine too.
So that's it. Another movie with great, but unused potential. My main complaint, to conclude, is that instead of being it a witch movie, it looked more like a family drama which had a few witches in it to keep your attention. I gave it a 4/10 because it needs two more notches to make it into anything but a slow paced drama.