Disappointing, nothing new on the theme

Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2016)

I was totally disappointed by "The Witch". I think it's pretty safe to say this movie is the biggest ripoff/letdown of the year! Why? The movie is slow, boring, and adds nothing new to the theme of witchcraft among New England pilgrims. The story revolves around a dysfunctional family that's constantly fighting, and a witch in the woods that barely shows up. When she does show up, she resorts to the usual tricks we've all seen thousands of times before and which therefore leave us cold.
To make matters worse, the protagonists speak with thick accents that are an awful mixture of cockney and archaic English and are very hard to understand for Americans. My friends and I couldn't understand at least 40-50% of the dialogs (especially the mother and father's) and so we missed a lot of details.
Getting back to the movie, the underlying theme seems to be "evil prevails over good" and "don't expect your Christian faith to save you from the devil". Well, tell us something we don't already know and haven't seen portrayed in movies at least a hundred times! Other than that, not much else happening in this so-called horror. So, I ask, was is the point of this movie? The answer is easy: none.
Friendly advice: save your time and money and don't pay to watch this mediocre movie on witches. Do the smart thing (unlike us) and wait till the movie is available on netflix before watching it, if you are determined to waste 90 minutes of your life.