Review of The Witch (2016) by Laggard — 05 May 2016

This movie is the definition of a bad movie pretending to be horror. We had people walking out half way into the movie and I don't blame them. Dialogues were inaudible, there was no plot, no character development, it was not explained why the mother was so much against her daughter, everyone was accusing everyone of being a witch and most importantly there was even a single scary scene.

I was sitting with my wife and cousins and they would jump higher than a horse even if they saw a lizard. No one even moved an inch during the entirety of this awful, torture of a movie. I have my share of creepy atmospheric horror but this one missed the mark by a distance.

If you compare it with the Blair Witch Project which set the precedent for movies which were based solely on the atmosphere it created this one has nothing. They showed the witch or whatever she was very casually, goats were haunted or something and I dont know about sundance audience but goats arent scary to me.

Nor are beautiful witches living in the middle of a jungle. Keep away people and save your hard earn money and time to better purposes like watch a real horror movie. Any one pick blindly and it will still be a better movie than this one.