SawThe Witch last night, and I haven’t had a movie hit me that hard in a while. It wasn’t overly scary, but the feeling of dread that permeated it was completely unsettling, and the attention to detail (not to mention the early colonial English!) was astonishing. I made a quick poster for it today while I had it rolling around in my brain.
In the 2015 film The Witch, a Puritan man named William packs up his family and moves them into the unknown. The year is 1630 - still the early days of Puritan settlement in New England - and William has decided that the way they do things in the newly established town is not good enough for him. He refuses to be judged by those he sees as unworthy of judgement so (in, no doubt, the same spirit that led him to move across an ocean) he decides they will live separate of the settlement, out on the edge of the wilderness in order to be closer to God. Not in the heathen forest, mind you, just in the orderly meadow just before it. The whole family seems to be accepting of this decision except for the eldest child, Thomasin, a girl just entering her teenage years who sees everything she once knew receding in the distance.
It’s decorative gourd season and The Witch is on (U.S.) Netflix as of today so I thought I’d dust this one off for the ol’ reblog.
(This blog isn’t dead, I’m just unsure where to go from here because the behind the scenes drama of American Gods kinda killed that show for me before I even really got going.)
Pretty cool: One of my embroidered creations inspired by The VVitch have been reviewed on the website of A24 Films, the production/distribution company behind this beautiful movie by Robert Eggers! <3 I don’t know who is the author but thanks to him/her :)
