The Witch

A Puritan family is cast out to the edge of a wood in the 1630s, and the wood answers. Eggers uses period language so the fear is theological before it is a jump. Anya Taylor-Joy’s Thomasin is blamed because she is the one the household can spare. Ralph Ineson’s father prays with a certainty that keeps shrinking. The A24 trailer shows the goat, the blood, and very little of the forest’s interior. The last choice is spoken in the open.