One of the most buzzed-about movies from this year's Sundance Film Festival was The Witch, a horror movie about a family whose baby is abducted in the wilderness of 17th century America. The raves came out strong and fast, proclaiming it one of the most unique horror movies not just of this year's festival, but in recent memory. Our own Erik Davis succinctly called it "the real deal," and writer-director Robert Eggers even took home the fest's highly coveted directing award.
Sadly The Witch doesn't come out until 2016, so the first trailer below is about to make that wait a whole lot more painful. It's instantly obvious what everyone was raving about, and it certainly doesn't hurt that the trailer is peppered with praise from film critics. The cinematography and period nature of it are engrossing and isolating at the same time, giving it a sense of genuine, authentic dread.
And the great thing is that the trailer is a perfect, unsettling tease. It hints at the plot but doesn't spoil anything, or at least certainly doesn't appear to. It just looks like a terrifying breed of horror we rarely see.
