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The Witch

2016 BR HMDB
febrero 19, 2016

Nueva Inglaterra en el año 1630. Una familia de colonos cristiana, formada por un matrimonio y sus cinco hijos, vive cerca de un bosque que, según las creencias populares, está controlado por un mal sobrenatural. Cuando su hijo recién nacido desaparece y los cultivos no crecen, los miembros de la familia se rebelan los unos contra los otros. Más allá de sus peores temores, un mal sobrenatural les acecha en el bosque cercano.

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Produccion: Daniel Bekerman (Producer)Jodi Redmond (Producer)Lars Knudsen (Producer)Rodrigo Teixeira (Producer)Sophie Mas (Executive Producer)Jay Van Hoy (Producer)Michael Sackler (Executive Producer)Lucas Ochoa (Executive Producer)Eleanor Columbus (Executive Producer)Julia Godzinskaya (Executive Producer)Alex Sagalchik (Executive Producer)Jonathan Bronfman (Executive Producer)Chris Columbus (Executive Producer)Thomas Benski (Executive Producer)Lourenço Sant'Anna (Executive Producer)Alexandra Johnes (Executive Producer)
Guion: Robert Eggers (Writer)
Musica: Mark Korven (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Jarin Blaschke (Director of Photography)

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Nueva Inglaterra, 1630. En un tranquilo pueblo de campo tiene lugar un juicio contra William, un hombre rígido y estricto en la difusión de la palabra de Cristo, y su familia, quienes son juzgados y luego expulsados de la comunidad. La decisión del tribunal los obliga a mudarse a una granja perdida en las montañas y rodeada de un bosque en el que flotan leyendas poco tranquilizadoras. Para empeorar la situación, se suman la misteriosa desaparición del hijo menor Samuel y el mal rendimiento de la cosecha, además de los comportamientos extraños de la hija mayor Thomasin y de sus hermanos menores, Caleb, Mercy y Jonas. Todas señales de una presencia negativa y maligna que afecta a todos los demás miembros de la familia en un crescendo de paranoia y locura que llevará a consecuencias trágicas. Una presencia negativa que, al menos en la mente de la puritana y temerosa de Dios familia de campesinos, se materializa en una bruja que habita el bosque y hace desaparecer a cualquiera que entre en su territorio. Llevar a la gran pantalla la figura de la bruja no es nunca una empresa fácil para un director, ya que, a diferencia de vampiros y otros monstruos clásicos, no existen grandes y significativos textos de referencia de los que inspirarse y mucho se deja a lo que el imaginario popular ha sabido elaborar a lo largo de siglos de relatos orales y leyendas. Una variedad de fuentes tan amplia que se ha reflejado también en el cine con las brujas representadas de tantas maneras diferentes, desde mujeres seductoras y tentadoras hasta entidades contra las que luchar de manera enérgica (como en el reciente «El último cazador de brujas» con Vin Diesel), pasando por adolescentes protagonistas de películas a medio camino entre la comedia y lo sentimental, como tanto está de moda hoy en día también con los vampiros. Por una línea más clásica es el director debutante Robert Eggers, quien, recordando su anterior cortometraje inspirado en Hansel y Gretel, devuelve a las adoradoras de Satán a una dimensión espacio-temporal más adecuada para ellas. Una elección que resultó ser muy acertada, ya que su ópera prima, «The Witch», es una película oscura, inquietante y asombrosa por su enfoque estilístico maduro y una gestión de la tensión casi perfecta y efectiva. Una premisa es obligatoria: «The Witch» no es una película para quienes buscan un susto fácil o quieren asistir a una película que no requiere gran esfuerzo en la visión. Eggers, de hecho, realiza una película que es exactamente lo contrario de todo eso y ofrece un preciso y detallado fresco de un núcleo familiar cuya extrema fe en Dios va erosionando poco a poco los afectos y los equilibrios entre padres e hijos y entre los mismos dos cónyuges. Una historia, a medio camino entre el horror y el drama, en constante crescendo que alcanza su punto álgido en una segunda parte delirante y dominada por una paranoia sin fin que conduce a un juego de matanza en el que las fuerzas del Mal se sirven a su antojo del exceso de devoción y fe de los padres que llegan a alcanzar puntos de locura y masoquismo puro. En todo esto, el director también coloca algunas excelentes escenas de tensión, acompañadas de algún buen y nunca excesivo salpicado de sangre en los momentos más truculentos y realzadas aún más por una banda sonora compuesta por voces indistintas y gritos sobrehumanos, al estilo «Suspiria» de Argento para entender; destacar, en este sentido, la sugerente y aterradora secuencia del pequeño Caleb que encuentra a la bruja en el bosque y la posesión que el mismo pequeño sufre por parte del espíritu maligno. Alguna pequeña escena fallida se registra en una parte central con ritmos un poco demasiado lentos, pero es precisamente en esta fracción de la película que los caracteres de los personajes se profundizan al máximo y se crean los presupuestos para un final exaltante y lleno de sangre y muerte. El reparto también está a la altura de la situación, en particular la joven Anya Taylor-Joy, en el papel de Thomasin, que progresivamente conquista la escena al mismo nivel que Ralph Ineson, que interpreta a William, muy bueno cargando a su personaje de un aura a medio camino entre el padre de familia tranquilizador y un hombre loco y esclavo de su misión de difundir y defender la palabra de Cristo. Muy positivos también los demás coprotagonistas. «The Witch», en conclusión, es una obra refinadísima, catalogable por muchos aspectos más en el ámbito del cine de autor que en el de género en sentido estricto del que solo toma las ambientaciones y la temática de brujería.
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Reno

Reno

8 /10

While an evil force slowly possessing them, the family bond is put on a test.

The film was based on the collection of a series of the real events that takes place in the 17th century New England. The story of a farmer family who came across the ocean, but now lives on the edge of the forest after denied permission to build a house in a village. When the newborn baby disappears in a thin air, the family begins to experience the mysterious events. Without a clue about the happenings, the evil force begins to possess them while the unity of the family is tested.

Wow, finally a wonderful horror-psychological-thriller. Usually horror films are the worst kind compared with other genres, because most of them overly rely on the sudden sound/noise and gore. But there are many awesome horror films I had liked which were better story than the graphical presentation, like this one. So I love good narration than those try to scare me with make-ups, stunts and sound mixings.

It was a limited cast film, sets in a beautiful remote place and the language was awesome that perfectly suits for the horror theme like this. Everyone's performance was brilliant. It is just a one million dollar film and the entire film was shot within a month. The records are not matter when the writing and the direction were top notch. Especially for a first timer it was a remarkable achievement.

A simple plot, developed greatly and the suspense was the highlight. Yet viewers expect more explanation, but I'm happy for what it is and it should not go deeper than that which might spoil its unique flavour. Not just horror film fans, everyone should try it if they're capable to handle the slow narration. Finally, like usual, here I won't ask for a sequel, because it'll make an amazing one off film than the dozens of crappy follow ups.

8/10

mattwilde123

mattwilde123

8 /10

This was a really good horror film. The direction was very interesting and Robert Egger plays with darkness and shadows in a really horrifying way. The tension is unbearable at times.

The dialogue is a bit hard to follow as it is very "oldé English" to add to the historical accuracy of the piece. The actors are all good at reciting this strange dialect and demonstrating the paranoia spreading through the family thanks to religion and superstition.The film is based on accounts and texts found from the era and so everything seen on screen has been taken from sources and barely been touched. Every part of the film seems authentic.

It is refreshing to see a film that doesn't really on jump-scares and annoying "cattle-prod" techniques to make audiences scared. 'The Witch' is genuinely disturbing without resorting to these techniques. It is very strange and gory when it needs to be. I also found these strange scenes quite fascinating and educational as the film almost seems like a historical document.

★★★★

Sheldon Nylander

Sheldon Nylander

8 /10

Talk about old school!

“The Witch” is a painstaking recreation of Puritan life in New England. The lifestyle is mimicked. The clothes are period-accurate. The dialogue is actually based off of documents and speeches from that time. It’s as if Mel Gibson decided to update “The Passion of the Christ” by 1600 years.

As mentioned, the movie is set in Puritan New England as a family is banished from the larger community and has to make their own way out in the wilderness. As they build their home, strange things begin to happen, starting with the abduction of the infant Samuel. Things continue to get worse and worse, until… okay, no spoilers. See the movie.

This is a dark and effective movie. I can’t remember the last time I actually had a start from the all too often used jump scares, but the movie is absorbing enough that it did manage to “get” me a couple times. Robert Eggers seems to have kicked off a new wave in old-school, deep supernatural and existential horror. I won’t lie that I drew some comparisons between this and Ari Aster’s “Hereditary,” if nothing else than by simply the way the movie felt and left me feeling at the end.

That being said, the film isn’t perfect. In fact, oddly enough, it’s perfection is what gives it imperfection. The period is so painstakingly recreated, in particular the dialogue, that sometimes hearing it can be jarring, making me stop for just a second to think about what was just said, which unfortunately interrupts the flow and managed to pull me out of the film. It’s kind of a strange complaint that something could be so accurate that it fails to suspend disbelief, but here we are.

“The Witch” is quite an achievement and I’m glad that this film, which would otherwise be relegated to underground status, has managed to achieve a following, enough so that Robert Eggers got to do a follow-up with the Lovecraftian-looking “The Lighthouse.” Definitely worth checking out.

r96sk

r96sk

8 /10

<em>'The Witch'</em>, Robert Eggers' feature directorial debut, is very good! I enjoyed all of these 90 minutes, I could've watched it go on for a little longer in truth. I really liked the atmosphere throughout, as well as the look of the film. The dialogue is particularly excellent, too.

Everyone on the cast gives a terrific performance, shown perfectly by that final scene with them all together onscreen. Harvey Scrimshaw is super convincing in the aforementioned, I was almost questioning if they had got an adult actor and morphed him into Caleb, such was his high performance.

Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson are class in that scene too, one of the most unsettling moments in this is as their characters convulse on the floor - that sorta thing with kids always creeps me out. I've gone too far into my review to not note Anya Taylor-Joy, who is quality from beginning to end. Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie merit props as well.

I mentioned in my recent review of (the good) <em>'Nosferatu'</em> that I was unsure how this one was going to fare in my personal ranking of this director's work, given the stark contrast with my thoughts on <em>'The Lighthouse'</em> (4/10) and <em>'The Northman'</em> (9/10). In actuality, this falls a notch below the latter; not far off the same rating, fwiw.

It'll be fascinating to see what Eggers conjures up next, as long as it is not another piece in the ilk of that from 2019 then I'll excited to check it out.

DogsLoveMe

DogsLoveMe

10 /10

One of the best movies I've ever seen. The acting, the lighting, the writing were all divine.

Also, even though this is a horror movie, I liked it because I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. I don't like horrors that have a bunch of gore or jump scares.

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