** SPOILER VVARNING **
An early scene confirms a vvitch inhabits the vvoods on the edge of the farm of young Thomasin's Puritan family but the greater horror of this movie is having to spend ninety minutes in the family's company - like a Jerry Springer "Help! My Puritan family thinks I'm a vvitch!" episode, they stand around shrieking unproductively at each other and it is little vvonder the vvitch stays vvell avvay (almost 'not-in-the-movie' avvay), leaving it to a random, introduced-at-the-last-minute Black Phillip (no, I don't knovv vvho or vvhat he is either) to step in and violently bring some vvelcome quiet to proceedings, in time for the visually stunning but miserable movie to end on its self-congratulatory note: a titlecard assuring vievvers vvhat an authentic Nevv England horror exercise it has been.
★★☆☆☆
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