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Julia Kowalski was back at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes with her second feature, Que ma volonté soit faite. Read our review.
Released in 2015 as A24’s breakout horror hit, The Witch (or The VVitch: A New-England Folktale, if you want to get specific) is a slow-burn, atmospheric thriller that has quietly grown into a ...
Released in 2015 as A24's breakout horror sensation, The Witch (or The VVitch: A New-England Folktale for those who prefer its full title) is a slow-burning, atmospheric thriller that has subtly ...
Leaving aside how The VVitch features a literal witch hunt that targets and vilifies a young woman and sculpts her into the thing that her society fears most, and that The Lighthouse’s terrifying ...
Remaking a 102-year-old silent horror classic that is widely regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre? Best of luck, Robert Eggers. Robert Eggers likes to reclaim things.
"The Witch" (or The VVitch, if you like) is as much about isolation and the dangers of religious fervor as it is about supernatural women in the forest liaising with the devil. In colonial America ...
The Folklore Behind 'The Witch' Posted: November 22, 2024 | Last updated: November 27, 2024 Robert Eggars critically acclaimed 2015 film, The VVitch wears its folk horror influences on it’s ...
The Witch was a masterful yarn in the way it kept ... The color grading immediately recalls the look of Eggers' The VVitch in its somber visual palette, extending the parallels beyond the feel ...
The ‘surfing’ “Witch of Newbury” – A Most Certain, Strange, and True Discovery of a VVitch 1643” makes an interesting story. Was she riding standing waves? Was she sup’ing on the river? Why was she ...
Regardless of the argument for and against ‘elevated’ horror, it is interesting to note that two of the most acclaimed movies from this period fell into the folk horror subgenre – The VVitch and ...