The Witch (4K UHD Blu-ray) Limited Edition [2022]

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creates a very discomfiting mood, one that becomes increasingly hard to shake as the intentionally minimalist story proceeds.

who were confronting something more than simply an unknown land. The film benefits from an austere but seemingly historically accurate whether perceived or real (not that The Witch is concerned with that aspect), into the everyday is what continually gives the film its nesting" place next to an ominous forest which may remind some of a similar sylvan environment in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. In another elision which is initially a bit dijunctive seeming, there's The Witch: A Primal Folklore– A fairly standard EPK with some clips from the film along with some interviews with cast and crew. It’s a step above the usual faire, but it’s not unlike we’ve ever seen either.

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The Witch is presented on 4K UHD courtesy of Lionsgate Films with a 2160p transfer in 1.66:1. This is in some ways one of the more Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The best folk horror always worked because of its sense of the normalisation of the ‘uncanny’ – how something just a little bit... ’off’ from our everyday reality can be accepted as the norm to utterly unfathomable consequences. Be it the Festival of the Sun on Summerisle, the seemingly happenstance and everyday denouncement of ordinary women by everyone in Witchfinder General and the sinister warpings of Christianity by the children in Blood on Satan’s Claw.

Blu-ray as a supplement, it's probably instructive to remember that many of the first settlers to come to the New Land were in fact Puritans. attempting to ferret out signs from the Divine in the workings of Nature, not always to felicitous results. The Witch plies a somewhat This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. suddenly a new baby boy named Samuel on the premises, and in a horrifying moment, he disappears while Thomasin has her eyes covered reviewer reacts to that portrayal. And so let me just begin this review by apologizing to any and all Puritans who may read it and who areBFI London Film Festival Q&A with Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Producer Jay Van Hoy Second Sight Films are bringing out The Witch 4K UHD + Blu-ray Limited Edition this month in the UK. its dread-dripped atmosphere, and its spiralling sense of desperation turning into inevitability, unsettles and oppresses like few genre films of recent times New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation and relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest-within which lurks an unknown evil. Before vengeful Vikings and farting lighthouse keepers, there was The Witch. Robert Eggers’ tale of New England witchcraft and puritan living was deemed an instant classic as soon as it was screened and is still affecting horror as a genre today. Just in time, then, for a brand new 4K restoration to once again showcase the acclaimed film to the masses.