Witch, The

The Witch

Credits
Title:	The Witch
Director:	Robert Eggers
Writers:	Robert Eggers
Producers:	Daniel Bekerman; Thomas Benski; Jonathan Bronfman; Joel Burch; Brian Campbell; Rosalia Chilelli; Chris Columbus; Eleanor Columbus; Mark Gingras; Julia Godzinskaya; Lauren Haber; Alexandra Johnes; Lars Knudsen; Ethan Lazar; Sophie Mas; Lon Molnar; Lucas Ochoa; Jodi Redmond; Michael Sackler; Alex Sagalchik; Lourenço Sant'Anna; Rodrigo Teixeira; Jay Van Hoy
Composer:	Mark Korven
Cinematography:	Jarin Blaschke
Editors:	Louise Ford
Production
Production company:	Parts & Labor RT Features Rooks Nest Entertainment Maiden Voyage Pictures Pulse Films
Distributed by:	A24
Released:	January 23rd, 2015
Rating:	R
Running time:	92 min.
Country:	USA Canada
Language:	English
Budget:	$4,000,000
Gross:	$40,423,945
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The Witch is a period film of the supernatural thriller subgenre of horror with an emphasis on witchcraft. It was written and directed by Robert Eggers. It was produced by Parts & Labor, RT Features, and Maiden Voyage Pictures, and released through A24. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23rd, 2015.

Plot[]

The tagline for this film is "Evil takes many forms".
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There are a total of thirty-two credited cast members in this film.
Production on The Witch began in December, 2013. It was filmed in Kiosk, Ontario, Canada.
The Witch 's earliest domestic release date was on February 19th, 2016. It had a domestic opening of $8,800,230.
The Witch was released on Blu-ray on May 17th, 2016 by Lionsgate Films.
This is the first full-length feature film for director Robert Eggers. He will go on to direct the 2022 period drama The Northman.
This film marks the film acting debut of Anya Taylor-Joy, who will go on to play Sandie in Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho in 2021.
The events of this film take place in the year 1630.

On the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), The Witch has a Starmeter rating of 7.0 out of 10 based on more than 326,000 user reviews. This comprises 24.8% of the total voting pool (US). 8.5% of the voting pool gave the film a perfect score of 10 while 2.9% of users gave the movie a score of 1.
On the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, The Witch holds a Tomatometer rating of 90% Fresh based on 332 approved critic reviews. It has an audience score of 59% based on more than 25,000 user ratings.
On Metacritic, The Witch holds a rating of 83 out of 100 based on 46 critic reviews. It has a user score of 7.4 based on 974 ratings.
On Letterboxd, The Witch has a weighted average review score of 3.83 based on 1,117,665 user votes.
On The Movie Database (TMDB), The Witch has a user score of 70%.

Voice actor Daniel Malik is credited as Wahab Chaudhry in this film.
Actress Viv Moore is credited as Vivien Moore in this film.
Actor Mark Millman is credited as Mark Millmna in this film.
Actor Ron G. Young is credited as Ron Young in this film. He is not to be confused with actor Ron Young who portrayed a biker pool player in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Actress Norah Messier is credited as Nora Messier in this film.