See If You Can Make It Through the Trailer for Sundance-Darling Horror Film...
Given initial reviews and reception at Sundance, The Witch may be the next Babadook or It Follows or whatever other recent exemplary horror film you might use in the continuous battle to prove...
View ArticleParanoia and a Black Goat Are the Real Terrors in New Trailer for ‘The Witch’
The Witch is maybe this year’s most talked-about horror film, and it might not even be a “horror” film. Directed in the Canadian wilderness, the Robert Eggers-directed film follows a 17th century...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in February
February is a strange month for moviegoing, with studios tiptoeing past the January dumping ground to give us slightly offbeat comic-book movies (Deadpool), sequels (Zoolander 2), and a Coen Brothers...
View ArticlePlease, For the Love of God/Satan, Manage Your Expectations About ‘The Witch’
The press screening of The Witch fell the night before the kick-off of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, a nice reminder that the indie film scene is basically one long Sundance – because this film...
View Article10 Sinister Satanic Films
“[The Witch] surrounds you with a general yet mostly indescribable sense of unease, less through its violence or blood than its mood and tension. And then it clobbers you,” writes our own Jason Bailey...
View Article‘The Witch’ Director Robert Eggers in Talks to Create Rasputin Miniseries
Robert Eggers seems to have a fascination with the occult. As if it weren’t made clear with the release of his debut feature The Witch, Eggers is in talks to write and direct a miniseries about Grigori...
View ArticleWarts and All: The Moments of Rasputin’s Life That Should Feature in Robert...
Due to the bounty of both aggrandizing and slanderous accounts — typically based on the political loyalties of the sources — the “facts” of Rasputin’s life often seem more mythology than history. For...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Alicia Vikander, ‘The Witch’ and Taking Black Phillip’s Advice
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
View Article‘THR”s Unflattering Profile of Black Phillip Reveals Goat’s Feud with Cast...
For those of you lucky enough to have seen Robert Eggers’ horror folktale The Witch, you know that the star of the film is not Ralph Ineson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, or Kate Dickie. No, the...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Witch,’ ‘Creative Control’
This week’s big new release is one of the most successful – and divisive – indie movies of the year, a deeply unsettling horror flick offering much more than easy scares. Also, we recommend a...
View ArticleThe Year in Film: 2016’s Best Movie Moments
As often happens this time of year, I’m looking over the vast, long list of movies that entertained, intrigued, and invigorated us all this year, and I’m struck by the embarrassment of riches – and not...
View ArticleWillem Dafoe Will Play A Creaky Old Lighthouse Keeper for the Director of...
Willem Dafoe earned some of the best reviews of his career, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, for his warm and charismatic turn in The Florida Project, Sean Baker’s...
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