Robert Eggers: A Name to Remember

Rating: 10/10 (10 April 2018)

"The Witch" is just a brilliant film, and plenty scary. Despite the divide between the critics and audiences on this film (as can be expected by any horror film A24 touches), I highly agree with the critics.
One thing that I will talk about is the film's score. I would compare it to "The Shining", in the sense that it added to the film's creepy atmosphere. Did it provide some jumpscare music? Yes. But did it do it very often? Thankfully, no.
Speaking of jump scares, I actually counted how many there were in this movie: 2. This movie managed to scare me silly with only 2 jump scares. Do you want to know why? Because the movie is very disturbing and creepy.
The acting and writing in the film are splendid. The entire cast did a fine job, especially with the meaty dialogue they were given. Their performances made some already scary moments even scarier. I also loved the the dialogue felt extremely contextualized. This wasn't like in "The Village", where the dialogue sounded relatively modern despite its supposed 18th century setting. This film's dialogue sounded so old (or should I say "olde") that I almost had trouble understand them some times. Eggers has proven himself with this fine debut.
My only problem I had with this film was that it should have taken the disturbing content slightly down a notch. That's it. That's my only complaint.
"The Witch" (or "The VVitch", if you want to mock the marketing) is a splendidly scary film that should be watched by any horror movie aficionado.