![]() ![]() ![]() No other family member got half the affection she showed to those boys.Įqually as interesting is who is left out of that sequence: her husband, Thomasin, and the twins. Her sons, who she valued above all others. Another testament to their previous wealth. They were apparently rich in England, remember the glass windows? They were also able to afford to bring their dog Fowler over on the boat with them, and transporting livestock was expensive. The cup, her father's cup represented her old home and life in England, and her identity there. I think it showed her the things that were the most important to her, in order. LAST AND BY FAR THE MOST SCARY JUMP SCARE IN THE FILM: The VVitch's midnight snack on the goats, then turning around and cackling will forever haunt my nightmares. I kept wondering upon my recent viewing, seconds before this happened, "Did Thomasin always have a dagger on her waist? Because it's extremely hard to not notice in this scene. The mother's psychotic murder attempt on Thomasin once William gets gored by Black Phil, you may not recall, but I just saw it for a second time and bitch definitely comes out of nowhere off screen and tackles Thomasin, before trying to strangle her. ![]() When Caleb and Thomasin go hunting together and the VVitch appears in her rabbit form - why is no one talking about this? - the horse bucks Thomasin's ass into the ground, and Caleb takes off running TOWARDS THE SOUND OF HIS DOG, FOWLER, BEING DISEMBOWELED.anyway, this all happened within a few seconds and was quite unnerving.Ĭaleb's exorcism when the Twins go limp and cannot speak or move, that fucked with me. The startling THUD! against the barn door in the middle of the night that isn't really explained, (while Thomasin and the twins are locked in the barn), and before The VVitch gets midnight munchies and goes blood-sucking on some goats in the very barn the aforementioned children are locked in. The Witch's old hand clasping Caleb's head as the illusion of a young pretty woman was kissing him. There were a handful, maybe 3-4, brilliantly executed jump scares - and even now referring to them, it feels insulting to label them as such, because "jump scares" are analogous with "cheap thrills." It implies that a film has "cheated" to make you get caught off guard, and that's exactly what 99.99% of current horror films use as their bread and butter when not resulting to torture porn bullshit and calling it "scary."īut in this movie, there were a few very tastefully done jump scares: This movie was stunning, and almost too horrific. The all-consuming fear of damnation, the self-loathing, the constant threat of evil lurking behind our every thought and feeling, the threat of hell hanging over your head every day of your life.I know those feelings well, as do many people. And he wants you.įor me, this movie brought back the kind of visceral horror I haven't experienced since childhood. The devil is not a fairytale or myth, he is as real as your parents and your pastor. God, sin, hell.all 100% real and interwoven into every aspect of your reality. To the people who believe like this, Satan is real. It's hard to accurately explain religion-based horror to people who didn't grow up in that kind of zealous, fire-and-brimstone environment not unlike Christianity of the Puritan era. As someone who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian environment in the South and became agnostic as an adult, this movie chilled me to the core. ![]()
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