From the Blair Witch to The Witch...a hipster crapfest!

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2016)

Yep folks exactly that! I had heard a great deal about this new, little flick that could. Apparently there was a good vibe about this movie as well as positive response and feedback...the darling movie at Sundance...
So naturally, I went in to see it with some interest and some hopeful, albeit modest, expectations. After all this time of the year treats it's movie going audiences to a plethora of toxic cinematic garbage.
Case in point "Deadpool", nothing more than a pedestrian cinematic mediocrity, sits at the top of the crap pile.
So in order to avoid Ryan Reynolds at all costs and his painful mimicking impression at being edgy and original, I went for "The Witch" as somekind of anti-dote...
And instead of anything remotely original, visionary or at least entertaining, I was treated to a overwrought, self-important, self-congratulatory, lazy and underwhelming turd of a movie!
Interesting cast, gorgeous cinematography...the rest...forgettable, disposable and utterly inconsequential.
You know, it is very easy to pick on big budget or genre movies and to bring them down and pounce on them. But indie movies have somehow gotten a pass over the years, because of this fake aura of authenticity they seem to carry whenever they come out of a film festival, like Sundance for example.
Not this time. Nope, not at all. "The Witch" plain sucks...badly...and unfortunately in the process reminds me of "The Blair Witch Project" another fetid piece of putrefaction, which gives me vivid migraines to this very day!