We ’ve had plenty of continuation , remaking , and found footage — but for my money , the most thrilling new horror films are the ones with their own decided signified of style . That ’s why I ’m pumped for The Witch , which is pose in New England 30 years before the Salem trials and looks both terrifying and gorgeous .
Below , you ’ll happen a brand - newfangled trailer for author - director Robert Eggers ’ homespun yet menacing feature — which won the first - meter helmer a Best Director Prize at last yr ’s Sundance Film Festival . Here ’s a synopsis , too :
New England , 1630 . Upon scourge of banishment by the church service , an English James Leonard Farmer leaves his colonial plantation , relocate his married woman and five children to a remote plot of land on the sharpness of an inauspicious wood — within which lurks an unknown evil . Strange and unsettling things begin to bechance almost straight off — animal wrick malign , crop fail , and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possess by an evil feeling . With suspicion and paranoia mounting , fellowship members accuse teenaged girl Thomasin of witchcraft , charges she adamantly denies . As circumstance turn more treacherous , each family member ’s organized religion , allegiance and love become tested in shocking and unforgettable fashion .
In improver to that cute , probably unholy little goat , you ’ll remark The Witch Centennial State - stars the excellent Kate Dickey ( Prometheus , Game of Thrones ’ Lysa Arryn ) as the embattle family ’s materfamilias .
The Witchwill be out February 19 .
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