Title: The Witch
Original Title: The Witch
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: Canada USA
- Length: 90 Minutes (1 hour 30 min)
- Budget: €3,500,000
- Genre: Horror
- Studios: Rooks Nest Entertainment
- Distributor: Universal Pictures
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: March 11 2016
- United States: February 26 2016
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Plot
Set in the 1930s in New England, it is a family of Christian settlers composed of parents and their five children. Living near a forest which, according to belief, there are forces of witchcraft, black magic and possessions. Suddenly, her youngest child, newborn, disappears without any signs of life while picking living is growing. This causes them fight with each other, coming to accuse his daughter of witch, something she dennies while in the woods a supernatural force is preparing to attack them. Film co-production between the US and Canada, this thriller is written and directed by Robert Eggers that will arrive in 2016 is starring by Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw and Lucas Dawson.
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Trivia
Filmed in only 25 days
The plot follows a Puritan family encountering forces of evil in the woods beyond their New England farm. The Puritan Religion still remains in the United States.
The premise is based on America's first witch hysteria in colonial New England, set 62 years before the infamous "Salem Witch Trials" which occurred in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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