The topic of witches has proven to be excellent fodder for rock and roll, no doubt, but historically, it hasn’t been so beneficial for people—particularly if you were in Salem around, say, 1692. Filmmaker Robert Eggers is apparently not the rock and roll type, and has thus taken on the witch scare of New England for his first feature, simply titled The Witch.
The film was much buzzed about for scaring the crap out of people at Sundance, where Eggers took home the Best Director award—a huge deal considering that this is his feature debut and horror films are not often recognized for their artistry (or when they are, they end up not actually being that scary). The film is still without an exact release date, but the first trailer comes with the vague promise that it will be in theaters at some point in 2016 (and you better believe that people are confident in this one, because Eggers has already been hired to remake Nosferatu).
The Witch will be in theaters in 2016.
(via Vulture)
