Ninety minutes I won't get back SPOILERS

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2016)

SPOILER ALERT
It's a bit pointless to put a spoiler alert on a film where so little of any interest happens. The final credits cite contemporary records as the source material for the film. The fantasies, paranoia and superstitions of half-starved,Puritan settlers for whom witchcraft was a clear and present danger were brilliantly treated, for example, in The Crucible, but totally wasted here. The acting was overwrought and each character seemed to be following an arc independently of the others. The cinematography was OK I suppose but it would be difficult to film remote New England forest landscapes and wide, dramatic skies badly. We couldn't wait to leave the cinema and, judging from the restlessness of others, we were not alone. Wish I had done more research before buying our tickets. After a wonderful season of Oscar nominated and other works of brilliance this was a total disappointment.