The Witch
2016 · 92 min · Horror / Fantasy / Mystery · TMDB 7.0
The short version:Puritan family slowly destroyed in the woods. Quiet, period-accurate, deeply bleak. Involves an infant.
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Scare profile
Editorial baseline. Add your own report to refine it.
Scary3
Not scaryExtreme
Dread5
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares1
NoneConstant
Disturbing4
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim4
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
What is in it
Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.
Violence & gore
- Graphic goreModerateeditorial
Children & pregnancy
- Child harmed or killedHeavyeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- An infant is taken and killed; the killing is implied in one brief, awful image rather than shown directly.
- Child in dangerHeavyeditorial
Sexual content & violence
- Sex & nudityBriefeditorial
Animals
- Animal harmed or killedModerateeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A goat, a dog and a raven are killed.
Body & medical
- Disease & terminal illnessBriefeditorial
Religion & the occult
- Cults & religious extremismModerateeditorial
- Demons & possessionModerateinferred from keywords