The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015)

The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 27, 2016Puritan Era Fear of Witches
A fascinatingly different and original work. A scrupulous effort is made – from the dialogue and clothing – to place us inside a 17th Century setting dominated by insanely legalistic religious superstitions and fears, at contrast to which there lie a series of phantasmagoric visions of witches

The Lighthouse (2019)

The Lighthouse (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 4, 2020Madness and Insanity Among Lighthouse Keepers
Robert Eggers made an extraordinary debut with The Witch: A New-England Folktale. This is his second film, less a work of horror than a dive into a disturbed and fraying state of mind in the tensions and hallucinations of two men isolated at a lighthouse in the 19th Century