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(Dull, dark, horror downer)
Taken from “New England Folk Tales,” this dull, dark, downer of a horror film makes for a long hour and a half of listening to a banished preacher and his family talk in Puritan words with English accents that are unintelligible. The movie is both dark in nature and dark in presentation, making many of the scenes as unintelligible as the dialogue.
It was difficult to understand why the preacher (Ralph Inneson) was banished, but the ver-babbling man takes his wife and four kids to the edge of a forest to live off the land.
Thomasin, the oldest daughter (Anya Taylor-Joy), takes a newborn baby to the edge of the woods, closes her eyes for a split second and poof, the baby disappears.
Things continue to go bump in the night for the family, as Thomasin is suspected of being a witch and the family’s faith is tested to the limits.
All of this happens so slowly, you’ll find it hard to stay awake. You just know that there is no way this movie will have a happy ending. You only wish it would hurry up and get there.
Rated R for some nudity and violence.
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