Bored...confused...

Rating: 2/10 (3 October 2018)

I finally saw this on Netflix, and the best thing I can say is I'm glad I didn't pay money for this. It was supposed to be a horror, but there was nothing scary about this. I am a horror film fanatic, and was hyped bout this when I first saw the preview; but now I feel like that is 1.5 hours of my life I will never get back.
Where the time period is always an ideal era for a good horror film, I found the movie lacking as a whole. The dialogue was fantastic (I'll give you that: the delivery of old time English was very well) but I feel maybe they spent so much time trying to get the dialogue right that they missed many grand opportunities to take the movie further in the scare factor. With many plot holes, the movie just led me in a confusing circle.
The whole premise of a family that chooses exile for their beliefs, striking out on their own only to (unbeknownst to them) fall prey to a coven of witches seems like breeding ground for thrilling effects and damaging faith searching. Instead, the characters seemed to really take all that away.
The mother seems to hate her own daughter, for whatever reason we don't know (it does mention in the end about Thomasin trying to seduce her brother) but it seems to have been a deep rooted hatred. The father is in constant denial that anything evil is going on. Though he is strong in his faith that God will help them, I feel that he is constantly dismissing the notion of evil lurking literally outside his door step. He goes so far as locking his remaining children in a barn with a supposed evil goat that just randomly shows up. Thomasin is, of course, the heroine in the movie. You want so much for her to vanquish the evil witch and be able to save her little brother and sister; only to be disappointed that she joins the coven of (unnecessarily) nude, floating witches led by a transforming goat that, I'm sorry, were those spurs??
Where did the witches come from? Why did they curse the family? What was exactly the point of grinding up the baby at the beginning? These were only some of the questions I had while trying to decipher this film.
My point of this rating is to share my views in this movie. I know I can't speak for everyone; I've seen quite a few high ratings for this. I for one, am not giving this higher than a two. But maybe it's just me. Hope this helps.