"The Witch" is for those who love historically accurate films, with a twist

Rating: 8/10 (23 June 2020)

One of the first things that sparked my interest was: the music. This music is phenomenal, now because the movie has an excellent soundtrack, but because the movie uses the music as a way to push the story forward. Ominous music begins low and gets to a point where you scramble to turn the sound down for fear of waking anyone.
The language used is very authentic and very believable for that period. It is also not hard to understand, but hard to hear, the music is louder than their voices, but never overlapping.
The differences in this movie being the historic timing, is that there are actual witches in this story. This isn't something like "The Village", where fears are made from something nonexistent. This is what sets this movie from all of the others.
I would recommend this movie is you like realistic witch stories within a historically correct setting.
What makes this movie 'feel' more real is that the fears are not just irrational, they're eating your family.