Robert Eggers is way above the average

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2020)

Written and directed by Robert Eggers, "The Witch" represents one of the highest artistic peak that horror cinema has ever reached. This movie tries to improve the visual concept of this genre with incredible direction and stunning photography, offering some photograms that clearly remind to flemish painting of 600. Is clear that technically and artistically this cinema piece is close to perfection. But "The Witch" is more than just art. In the movie there is a constant conflict between good and evil, life and death, humanity and supernatural, Christ and Satan, with a complex and elaboreted symbology. While you watch the film, the story of this unlucky family keeps growing in you with a succeeded climax of anxiety and paranoia that finds its peak in the terrifyng final. "The Witch" is beatiful, intriguing, terrifyng and terribly complex but maybe it will leave you with a sense of emptiness mixed with disappointment for not having understood the meaning of the film which is subjective and unclear.