Review of The Witch (2016) by Equinoxia — 19 May 2016

It's a howling mess...right from the large passages of unintelligible dialogue to the hilarious witch tropes like gnarly old moondancing women who straddle broomsticks and take off into the night sky. but it's just the sort of sundance trifle that causes a stir and a tsunami of gushing praise by a large group of critics apparently overcome in the throes of mass hysteria.

Is it supposed to be some kind of stroke of iconoclastic genius that fevered religiosity should end up bringing down upon itself the terrors of which it constantly warns its flock? far too much to hope that the makers of this film might not be such blatant panderers, and that they might have something original--or at least brave--to say on the subject.