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Title: The Witch

Original Title: The Witch

Year: 2015

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: March 11 2016
  • United States: February 26 2016

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.

Cast

Director:

Robert Eggers Robert Eggers

Videos

'The Witch' featurette 1:35
Trailer 'The Witch', Paranoia 1:22
'The Witch' Trailer 2:30

'The Witch' Trailer

August 20 2015

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Trivia

Stephen King, who is often called the "master of horror", has stated that he was terrified by this film.

Filmed in only 25 days

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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