The VVitch (2016) - Perils involving goats and home schooled children

Finchy was great. I couldn't remember where I recognized that actor from until being reminded in this thread.

still think this is to folk horror as idk punk ipa is to craft beer

Loved this -- finally saw it last weekend. This is one of my favorite types of horror movie -- almost like a processional. No real 'twists'. There is a threatening force, the threatening force overwhelms all, the end. Also would like to echo la lechera's call for write in votes for black phillip this November

This is one of my favorite types of horror movie -- almost like a processional. No real 'twists'. There is a threatening force, the threatening force overwhelms all, the end.

Serious recommendation - if you haven't seen Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem, do.

otm. i was thinking afterwards that LoS had some sort of similar ~vibe~

currently streaming on amazong prime
https://www.amazon.com/Witch-Anya-Taylor-Joy/dp/B01BT3SEHM/

Anyone else notice the figure in the background in the woods?!

whaaaaat

time for a rewatch!

btw my wife read an article online somewhere that talked about how the goat who played black phillip was super naughty and intractable

yeah the special features on the bluray had some interviews where the director said they had way more scenes planned for black phillip but he was a nightmare basically

hahaha

i love the scene in the closed-up shed where BP is just looking into the middle distance and breathing super heavily, I bet he was working up to a tantrum

There are like a dozen levels upon which I thought this was masterfully done but I think one of the most effective elements was the film's adherence to naturally-lit scenes. The quality of the light always felt appropriate to a setting in the woods with no electricity. Seems like a no-brainer for this type of story but Hollywood often has no brains.

otm

good movie. my only criticism is guy from the office's voice was so gravelly that i could barely make out wtf he was saying. sounded like he was just angrily gargling at people

i turned on closed captioning from the getgo

ha ha i didn't realize it was finchy from the office. amazing. i just thought he looked like graham chapman.

i did not clock him at all either! wow

Finchy was the only thing that pulled me out of this movie a bit, because I think I'd only ever seen him in The Office and he'd done such a good job of convincing me that he was a disgusting human being that I was a little taken aback to see him playing something other than a disgusting human being.

Recently at the theater, I saw the main girl from this in two and possibly even three trailers before the movie. Good to see she's getting work.

I like his voice a lot, I appreciate that non-brits and some brits might find his accent hard to understand but I wouldn't change it. Thought he'd be more recognised from Game Of Thrones and Harry Potter. Apparently he's in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

I don't think there's a lot of good folk horror films. There's obviously Wicker Man and I've never been as into that as most people but it's still unique. Blood On Satan's Claw just isn't very good. Can't think of much that slots in that neatly.

guys, i'm seriously getting worried my family room and/or apple tv is haunted because apparently no one else out there has seen this figure in the woods.

I never watched The Office so...who was he playing? The dad?

yes the dad

he play the dad

When does the figure in the woods show up?

the scene when Caleb is in the woods on his own. pans into the shot on the right as he's walking.

or the figure is standing alone in a dark corner of my living room. waiting for me.

Wow, yeah, I just spotted it. That is creepy.

oh thank god.

i didn't go back to check – but there's also the scene where the mother is in her bed praying/sobbing, and you see her through the gap in the curtains – I noticed something moving above her, just barely in the shot. thought maybe it was a mic or some other slip-up; but now i'm not sure – am going to check when i get home.

this was amazing

re-watched this last night, still incredible. what a film.

the final sequence is so masterful and beautifully shot, it makes the payoff ("yes, everything that has been implied IS TRUE") so much more impactful. I don't think it diminishes all the ambiguities - about the nature of sin/redemption, family lies and dissembling, puritan repression/oppression, "wicked" children - at all.

Anything involving the death of children or evil children is hard for my wife to take (altho she agrees this film is great), but I told her hey, she had to kill the entire family otherwise she would never be free of all that puritan bullshit

Had to turn on the subtitles in order figure what the dang was being said, but yeah it was good.

in order to figure out

damn, now I need subtitles

best horror film in recent memory, and it's not really even close

i was hoping the revive would have some news about what eggers has been up to but i had to go look it up myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(upcoming_film)

agree the final sequence of the vvitch is just about perfect.

this shit was terrifying and unnerving. I watched it right after watching Hereditary. What a nice night I had.

Willem Dafoe as Old

bit harsh

lol

the kid in the possession scene was acting so well I was terrified for him in real life

i wanna watch this again for Halloween

love everything abt this movie

AND i’m going to watch Lords of Salem

Now on Netflix, thinking about revvatching it soon.