Robert Eggers' feature debut shows a confident grasp of the horror movie genre

Is a family in 17th-century New England plagued by witches or their own madness?

In 1999, when the Internet was young and our hearts were blithe and bonny, the found-footage horror film “The Blair Witch Project” was brought to market ...

Unquestioned passion and devotion doesn’t tend to end particularly well.

Read the Empire Movie review of The Witch. A hugely assured debut, The Witch is a beautiful, bleak brainworm that will haunt you for...

'The Witch': EW review

The press screening of The Witch fell the night before the kick-off of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, a nice reminder that the indie film scene is bas...

A washed-out art-horror film set in 17th-century New England

Do you like really scary movies?

Robert Eggers' debut is a horror story set in a Puritan New England of nearly 400 years ago.

(15) Robert Eggers, 93 mins. Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw

Review: 'The Witch' is a Uniquely Spooky Discovery

The Witch is a stressful movie to watch, and that's meant as the highest praise.

Every beast and plant takes on threatening form in a slippery, intelligent menace-filled film by first-time director Robert Eggers

It's the rare horror film that sows suspicion into nearly every frame, so intent on a darkening mood that the stillness of trees at the edge of a wood, or a ...

Something wicked this way comes... Robert Eggers’ New England folk tale is steeped in magic and menace.

Robert Eggers’s film resurrects the ancient fear of eternal damnation—which modern thrillers can’t touch.

What dark magic bedeviled so many critics into praising a plodding horror of a film as “The Witch”? Director Robert Eggers’ debut feature about a 17th-...

Which is more nightmarish: the spectre of a child-stealing crone who lives in the woods, or everyday life as a Puritan? This remarkable feature debut grounds...

The eerie, chilling period film “The Witch,” set in 1630s Massachusetts, falls uneasily between psychological drama and horror, so its commercial prospec...

Around 1630 in New England, a family leaves a plantation to settle down alone at the edge of a forest.

If all it took was verisimilitude and atmosphere to define a movie, The Witch would earn a near-perfect rating. Unfortunately, despite a creepily effective s...

The Witch draws you in so well that you won't realize that its creators have been broadcasting exactly where they're taking you. 

The typical horror movie can be labeled a success if it manages to jolt you a couple of times, and get the hairs on the back of your neck up here and there. ...

A 17th-century family comes face to face with pure evil in the terrifying supernatural horror movie 'The Witch.' Read our review.

Dir/scr: Robert Eggers. US-Canada. 2014. 91mins

As a curio drawing on the influence of Danish director Carl Dreyer, The Witch has its own fascination.

Robert Eggers’s low-budget debut makes our hearts swell and our brains sweat, says Charlotte O'Sullivan

Robert Eggers' The Witch is a reminder that horror's essence is patience that moviegoers are trained to not have.

"We will conquer this wilderness. It will not consume us," foreshadows our patriarch in the first act of The Witch, a delightfully insane bit of 17th century...

Robert Eggers’s feature debut is not only an excellent horror film, but also a captivating study in extreme paranoia and the fragile bonds of family

If horror movies come in thematic waves, then the last 15 years have largely been dominated by thoroughly modern fears: technology serving as a conduit of te...

Like a nightmare you can't easily shake off, this creepy Sundance hit, about religious fanatics battling dark forces, feels both alien and frighteningly reco...

The ‘New-England Folktale’ terrifies

Horror film creeps out with a black goat and period drama.

A fiercely committed ensemble and an exquisite sense of historical detail conspire to cast a highly atmospheric spell in “The Witch,” a strikingly achiev...

Even when the film is spare, it’s heavy.