...situates itself very purposefully in an actual time and place; it doesn’t require some huge mental leap to connect its fictional terrors to the very real ones inflicted upon a group of innocents in the same geographic region...

I've talked a lot about what The Witch is about without mentioning how well it's about it. That's partly because the film is so consistently engrossing that surrendered to it early on.

...The Witch plants its pitchfork proudly in the more unsettling landscape of evocative, intelligent modern horror.

Det er svært ikke at forvente sig meget af Robert Eggers, hvis stilsikre debutfilm indkasserer gys på den gammeldags måde: Gennem timing, atmosfære og selvsikkerhed nok til at lade billederne fortælle.

...rarely has a film this oppressive been so impressive.

...Eggers makes it clear that genuine evil is afoot, Thomasin’s ambiguous role at the center of it all turns “The Witch” into a disturbing portrait of emerging adulthood.