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Shanie 2022-04-21 09:01:43
I really think it's average, it's far worse than many old horror movies.
The director is good , the
actors are good, and
the crew is fine,
but I must say that the fucking screenwriter is really powerless to complain. . .
Even though everything looks good, the ambience and whatnot set off nicely. . .
but?
but?
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Lorna 2022-03-16 09:01:03
[Films Review] The Witch (2015) 7.5/10 and The Lighthouse (2019) 8.0/10
A double-bill of American auteur-on-the-rising Robert Eggers' two astounding feature films, THE WITCH and THE LIGHTHOUSE, both extract their sources from erstwhile folktales, the former is 17th century rural horror of witchery and satanism whereas the latter fast -forwards two centuries later, and...
Robert Eggers
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Alta 2022-04-22 07:01:07
"Satan would see it twice." I'd see it twice. 'The tension at the end is perfect
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Nakia 2022-03-21 09:01:38
The history of witch persecution is the history of making farmers lose their land to become workers and women craftsmen/knowledge disseminators to lose their labor qualifications and become unpaid laborers when capitalism was formed. It's a pleasure to show that women really become witches and find an organization to survive.
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[first lines]
William: [before the court] What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers' houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?
Governor: We must ask thee to be silent!
William: Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?
Old Slater: No more! We are *your* judges, and not you ours!
William: I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.
Governor: Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?
William: If my conscience sees it fit.
Governor: Then shall you be banished out of this plantation's liberties!
William: I would be glad of it.
Governor: Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.
William: How sadly hath The Lord testified against you.
William: [turning to leave] Katherine...
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Thomasin: [walking gradually toward her sister] I be the witch of the wood.
Mercy: Liar! Liar!
Thomasin: I am.
Caleb: List' not to her, Mercy.
Thomasin: I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.
Mercy: No!
Thomasin: He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.
