A lot of hoo-haa for nothing

Rating: 5/10 (10 April 2019)

Don't get me wrong there isn't anything actually wrong with this movie.... is just has the devil inside it... jk.
The true problem is that it's essentially just a lot of unsavory crap stretched out o over the course of a feature length movie without anything to learn, without any payoff, without any actual story.
"a folktale"
You know what those have in common? They are short to tell and are interesting. Qualities this movie lacks.
With the characters all equally hateable, the plot practically non-existant, the visuals forcibly off color, the conclusion deeply unsatisfying and dumb, i think the people working on this did the best with what was available.
What was available however was... not much. And definitely not enough.
The acting was pretty great from all involved, but acting out a dumb script doesn't save the movie. And the script was also as good as it could be adapting the stories it did.
Maybe they should not have been adapted at all?
It was a perfectly functional movie, with a lot of effort, and well made, it was just not nice to watch in any way, from any perspective, be that family drama, horror, medival movie, religious movie, or folktale as it were.
"Witches, in any case do not exist. They shall not be spoken of again." is something a king said in the early middle ages ending witch trials in his kingdom before they could really start. In this case the latter part of the advice could have been heeded and it would not have been a significant loss.