Suspenseful film. I'm still waiting for something interesting to happen.

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 2016)

Were the witch sold as a period drama with creepy elements I might have looked more kindly upon it. But since it was sold as "the most terrifying film of the year" all I found was disappointment. The film throws a scary scene featuring "The Witch" at us in the first ten minutes but after that it builds(if you can call it that) unsuccessfully for over an hour. the first thirty minutes the audience accepts as necessary to build suspense and flesh out the characters but one boring scene after the next has the people bored and unamused. Now keep in mind I'm not the kind of person who requires instant gratification in film. The babadook is my favourite horror film in years. The Witch is not that film. Several times we expect something scary to finally happen only to be greeted by a rabbit. This film felt like it was edited in the 70s and is choppy at best. It also ends more times than LOTR with each fade to black making us hope that it's finally over. This film is well acted but that's about it. It's hilariously unscary.