Intense and Unnerving!

Rating: 9/10 (21 February 2016)

Witches in the 1630s were not 2016 modern gaia loving pagans who worship the earth. Witches *from a 1630s Puritan perspective* made pacts with the devil, drank blood, cursed and killed and this type of hysteria & paranoia is the premises of this film. It's a slow to burn, cerebral movie like The Shining, or Suspiria. But in this day and age of stimulation overload, and film goers who laugh at jerking off jokes, The Vvitch will no doubt be reviewed by some as "boring"..sorry, there are no jump scares, no stupid one liners, this movie makes you think and feel everything. This piece of art was absolutely dark, unnerving, extremely disturbing and completely amazing. It is fantastically made and beautifully executed right down to the soundtrack which is every bit unsettling, containing no more than single string and faint wailing noises. This is the type of horror movie I've been waiting a very long time to see.