Horror · Fantasy · Mystery
American
2016 · Directed by Robert Eggers · 92 min
New England, 1630. A devout English family leaves its settlement and starts a farm alone beside a dark forest. Told in the language of its period, the film builds slowly, with austere images and a steady sense of dread.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of the 2010s independent horror revival, it linked older folk-horror and witch-hunt cinema to a new generation of author-driven, atmospheric genre films.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study of how a closed world, with its beliefs, habits and silences, makes ordinary things feel threatening.
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