Anya Taylor-Joy in Robert Eggers' supernatural horror movie 'The Witch.' "It's a dark fairy tale," the director says of his Puritan tale about a family of Calvinists confronting pure evil.

It's back to the bad old days, as a new thriller takes us to witch-haunted New England. Skip to Article. Set weather. ... 'The Witch' review: Horror movie casts a spell. Updated: Feb. 18, 2016, 2: ...

“The Witch,” set in 1630s New England, is seen through the eyes of teenage Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), whose family has been banished from their colony due to a religious disagreement.

* * * Stars | Horror. R. 92 minutes. A grim, uneasy sense of doom pervades “The Witch,” writer-director Robert Eggers’ audacious and assured feature debut. An avatar of a sub-genre that ...

The Witch unravels in a beautiful, brutal fashion, and it lacks the predictable payoff a lesser horror film would have given. I respect and adore Eggers’ restraint.

The events of The Witch can be perceived as a punishment for that sort of reckless pride. In 1630, patriarch William packs up his family into a wagon and rolls out into the country, following a ...

Movies like The Witch (Feb. 19), Robert Eggers’ historical horror drama set in 1630s New England, eschew the expected in favor of genre mash-ups and fresh aesthetic takes.

It’s hard to talk about “The Witch” in relation to the seminal 1973 horror film without spoiling the malicious surprises Eggers has up his sleeve, but it’s safe to say that both films ...

In the new horror film The Witch (out Feb. 19), a family of 17th-century Puritans are tormented by a sorceress after establishing an isolated farmstead in the New England wilderness. First-time ...