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

There are confident first features, and there’s 'The Witch', the exhilaratingly scary debut in which American writer-director Robert Eggers tramples over the co

Robert Eggers’s Sundance-garlanded period horror is a chilling study of fear and the devils that live within us all

R • 1 hour 32 min • 2016

Anthony Lane reviews Robert Eggers’s film set in seventeenth-century New England, with Kate Dickie and Anya Taylor-Joy.

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

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

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

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 rare horror movie with such savage grace and conviction that it was endorsed by both the Sundance Film Festival and the Satanic Temple (whose...

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

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

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

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 on a production budget of well under a million dollars. It went on to make nearly a quarter-billion worldwide. Its aesthetic seemed novel back then, before all the “Paranormal […]

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

The reworking of a tired horror trope into a transformed feminist symbol is an impressive act of genre revisionism.

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 setting and authentic setup, the movie suffers as a result of a frustratingly uneven ...

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

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

The ‘New-England Folktale’ terrifies