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The VVitch

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114 feature instances
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The VVitch	type	TVTItem
The VVitch	label	The VVitch
The VVitch	page	TheWitch
The VVitch	comment	The Witch: A New-England Folktale (stylized as The VVitch) is a Religious Horror historical drama film directed by Robert Eggers and starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Ineson. The movie originally debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Best Director award in the Drama category), and was released to wide audiences on February 19, 2016 by A24.The Witch is set in 1600s New England, where a Puritan family is banished from their village and must set out on their own into the wilderness. They set up a family farm on the edge of the woods, but encounter an evil lurking beyond the treeline.Compare with A Ghost Story, another A24 film released the following year, which put a similarly introspective and minimalistic spin on a classic horror trope (ghosts instead of witches), and The Sudbury Devil, another film about witchcraft in the 17th century which tries to be as historically accurate as possible.
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The VVitch / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
The VVitch / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: The witch gives a slow one to Caleb when he comes across her domain and she appears as a beautiful young woman.
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The VVitch / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
The VVitch / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: Several characters see the titular witch in different guises, hinting at their personalities. Caleb sees her as a curvaceous young woman in revealing clothing, Katherine sees her as her two dead children, and Thomasin sees a Tall, Dark, and Handsome stranger who may either be the witch or her master Satan. Her true form is apparently that of an elderly grey-haired woman who never wears clothes. And that's without getting into the fact that there's more than one witch.
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The VVitch / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
The VVitch / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Thomasin becomes a witch at the end.
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The VVitch / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The VVitch / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Caleb returns from the forest nude and maddened, and is implied to have been sexually attacked by the witch. Given what we can see of the actual witch, it comes to no wonder.
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The VVitch / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The VVitch / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: A variant; clips in the DVD's menu show Thomasin disrobing in an overly dramatic way, which plays a great deal into the ending.
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The VVitch / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
The VVitch / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: Because the family is away from civilization and there's nobody else around close in age, Caleb seems to develop incestuous sexual lust towards his own sister Thomasin which he struggles with.
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The VVitch / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The VVitch / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Caleb's final scene is intended to resemble an ecstatic sexual experience (with an actual Puritan prayer chosen to give that suggestion), which neither the character nor actor should understand. The actor who played his father had to coach the performance through soccer metaphors.
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The VVitch / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
The VVitch / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: Satan has a deep but smooth voice at the end.
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The VVitch / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The VVitch / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Thomasin eventually signs her name in the Devil's book, as all witches are said to do. The Devil (or the witch) also makes the offer to Katherine, disguised as her two dead children. The film could be taken as an exploration of the trope itself, asking what would legitimately cause a person to make one.
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The VVitch / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The VVitch / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A memorable scene of a baby being about to be sliced up with a knife. Then Caleb dies. The fate of the twins is left open though.
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The VVitch / int_2727c89a	type	Pride Before a Fall
The VVitch / int_2727c89a	comment	Pride Before a Fall: William and his family are banished from the commonwealth for his pride. Not very long after, baby Samuel is abducted and killed by a witch, and things only get worse from there.
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The VVitch / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The VVitch / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Katherine attempts to do this to Thomasin, blaming her for all the wrongdoings happening in the family. This causes Thomasin to fight back and kill her mother in self-defense.
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The VVitch / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The VVitch / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The twins. We never actually see them die, and Thomasin was right about Black Phillip being Satan; it's not hard to imagine that Thomasin was right about them as well. On the other hand, they're not seen with the other witches at the end. Furthermore when the witch is in the stable, a disgusting "choking noise" stifles their screams. What exactly she did is unknown, but the twins' survival is unlikely.
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The VVitch / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The VVitch / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: William was banished by the commonwealth because he didn't see them as "true Christians" and took issue with how they worshiped. He seemed confident he and his family could brave the wilds on their own. He is very quickly proven wrong.
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The VVitch / int_2ba89e01	type	The Joy of First Flight
The VVitch / int_2ba89e01	comment	The Joy of First Flight: A rather unsettling example. The last scene shows Thomasin stoked as she starts to levitate like the other witches.
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The VVitch / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The VVitch / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The Witch kills everyone except Thomasin, who then becomes a witch herself at Satan's behest.
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The VVitch / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The VVitch / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Thomasin's family turns against her and accuses her of being a witch. Guess who ends up becoming a witch at the end of the film?
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The VVitch / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
The VVitch / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: The witches are the villains of the story but the rest of her family treats Thomasin so badly she eventually becomes a witch, if only just to survive.
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The VVitch / int_34c6ed8	type	Don't Go in the Woods
The VVitch / int_34c6ed8	comment	Don't Go in the Woods: The woods beyond the farm are extremely creepy, and you can only see one or two rows of trees before it turns to darkness.
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The VVitch / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The VVitch / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The story starts out as a depiction of a fundamentalist family living in some schizophrenic fantasy world entirely of their father's invention. But then, as the plot progresses, it becomes clear that witches and curses are indeed real and the devil does exist. Maybe.
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The VVitch / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
The VVitch / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: The coven's Enochian chant at the end.
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The VVitch / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
The VVitch / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: This poster◊ inadvertently spoils the ending, but without context it can seem like it's the witch herself instead of Thomasin at the end.
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The VVitch / int_455341fe	type	Cradling Your Kill
The VVitch / int_455341fe	comment	Cradling Your Kill: Thomasin cradles her mother after having killed her in self-defense.
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The VVitch / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
The VVitch / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: William while chopping some wood, and Thomasin has to wash his shirt in the river.
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The VVitch / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
The VVitch / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: Or at least makes potions out of them.
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The VVitch / int_47184ded	type	Becoming the Boast
The VVitch / int_47184ded	comment	Becoming the Boast: Early in the film, Thomasin brags to her siblings Jonas and Mercy about being a witch. Guess what she ends up becoming at the end?
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The VVitch / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The VVitch / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: We cut away just as the witch presses a blade against baby Samuel. We next see the same spot drenched in blood with no sign of the baby.
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The VVitch / int_4c275e42	type	Distressed Woodchopping
The VVitch / int_4c275e42	comment	Distressed Woodchopping: The family got banished from their village and set up a family farm on the edge of the woods. William (the father) has a habit of going to chop wood when he's frustrated to relieve stress. In her epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Thomasin caps off her father's failures by proclaiming that chopping wood is all he can manage.
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The VVitch / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The VVitch / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Everyone dies except Thomasin, who joins the witches' coven. We never find out what happened to the twins, but it's probably not unrealistic to assume the worst. It goes even further as Katherine and Thomasin definitely signed their souls to the Devil, the twins are implied to have done so as well, and Katherine openly feared that Caleb and baby Samuel were damned. If Heaven exists, William is probably the only one who made it... and considering he was willing to die to redeem his children's souls when he believed them witches, odds are he won't find much peace even in Heaven, knowing his entire family is in Hell. The only upside is Thomasin seems happy in her new coven.
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The VVitch / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The VVitch / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Satan saying: "What dost thou want?"
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The VVitch / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The VVitch / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the end of the movie, the shot of witches dancing nude around a campfire in the forest, showing that the woods house an entire coven of witches.
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The VVitch / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The VVitch / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Played with. In hindsight, the family doesn't do anything warranting their horrible fate (even the twins' covenant with Black Phillip, as it was made in childish ignorance rather than willful malice). However, by Puritan standards, they're sinners to the bone marrow.
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The VVitch / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The VVitch / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: It opens with a shot of Thomasin, and ends with one of her hovering in the air.
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The VVitch / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
The VVitch / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Katherine's reaction after Caleb dies.
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The VVitch / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
The VVitch / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: Dark forces are (apparently) hard at work during the film, and even Satan himself shows up in the form of Black Phillip, but while Katherine's dream and Caleb's dying words could be seen as hinting towards the existence of a benevolent hereafter, God himself seems very inactive, which the devout characters find quite disheartening.
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The VVitch / int_5a24baf5	type	Sinister Nudity
The VVitch / int_5a24baf5	comment	Sinister Nudity: The witch coven encountered at the very end of the film are all naked and chanting in Black Speech, their nudity made to seem indistinct and disturbing by the poor lighting.
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The VVitch / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The VVitch / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: One explanation for why Caleb was sent back to his family after being raped by the Witch. The family watches on in helpless terror as Caleb wastes away, suffering and babbling senselessly before dying right in front of them.
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The VVitch / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The VVitch / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: One interpretation of the film is that Thomasin is insane, and all of the encounters with the witch are actually encounters with her while she's hallucinating. In particular, note that the witch isn't seen or heard again after Katherine's death, possibly implying that Thomasin was the witch all along. Another is that everyone is suffering ergot poisoning with the attending psychosis it brings; notice the big deal made of rot on the corn?
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The VVitch / int_5e1b0f72	type	Evil Tastes Good
The VVitch / int_5e1b0f72	comment	Evil Tastes Good: Satan's offering to Thomasin is to try the taste of butter and live "deliciously".
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The VVitch / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
The VVitch / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': All of the family commits a sin, however little it seems; they pay dearly for those: Samuel is part of the "original sin" his father William preaches about and dies unbaptized; The twins may be in a covenant with Satan and provide false testimony about Thomasin; Caleb briefly lusts over Thomasin and provides false testimony to his mother; Thomasin blasphemes, provides false testimony when bullying Mercy, and being willful (by Puritan standards) does not honor her parents; Kate succumbs to wrath, does not renege the false testimony given to her about Thomasin, nor she asks for forgiveness for the false accusations; William leaves the Commonwealth due to pride, provides false testimony to Katherine and shifts the blame to Thomasin. The family as a whole pays the price for their hubris of leaving a civilized "godly" settlement and trying to tame the devoid-of-God wilderness without the Lord's protection. They forsook divine protection, and paid an ungodly retribution for it. As time goes by and the situation worsens for them, their prayers become ever louder and filled with despair, and it becomes readily apparent that said prayers aren't going to be answered.
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The VVitch / int_5fa5c4ac	type	Jealous Parent
The VVitch / int_5fa5c4ac	comment	Jealous Parent: Katherine accuses her daughter Thomasin of seducing her father William and her brother Caleb, believing her responsible for the family's misfortune and tries to kill her for it.
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The VVitch / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
The VVitch / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The film makes use of a chilling score, constantly ebbing and flowing with intense violins that sound nearly unearthly.
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The VVitch / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The VVitch / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Briefly but memorably, when Thomasin and the twins see the Witch suckling blood from the goat's teats in the barn. Briefly when Katherine sits in a chair hallucinating breastfeeding her child Samuel when in actually she's breastfeeding a crow pecking at her breast.
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The VVitch / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The VVitch / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Thomasin. Combining "Thomas" the doubting apostle, with "sin". Also: Black Phillip - Baphomet.
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The VVitch / int_6d89ad1a	type	The Ophelia
The VVitch / int_6d89ad1a	comment	The Ophelia: Katherine becomes this completely by the third act. After going mad and hallucinating that Caleb and Samuel have come back to her, she only appears in her nightgown with her hair loose - trying to murder her only surviving daughter.
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The VVitch / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The VVitch / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Whether there's a witch or not, this family goes through every horror imaginable, and due to their isolation, there's no one coming to help them. Thomasin is the only one to make it out alive, and by then, she's so broken that she makes a Deal with the Devil.
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The VVitch / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The VVitch / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The entire movie, to the point where Thomasin accepting the Devil's bargain at the end is not just her prerogative, but her only way to survive.
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The VVitch / int_7b405f5b	type	Percussive Therapy
The VVitch / int_7b405f5b	comment	Percussive Therapy: The father has a habit of going to chop wood when frustrated.
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The VVitch / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The VVitch / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "Wouldst thou like to live... deliciously?"
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The VVitch / int_7be20777	type	Folk Horror
The VVitch / int_7be20777	comment	Folk Horror: It's even called 'A New England Folk Tale' in the subtitle, and deals with fear and paranoia brought on by a witch or more apparently targeting the family.
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The VVitch / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
The VVitch / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: You have to wonder why such a devoutly Puritan family would keep a black goat of all things around. Especially once the children start claiming it speaks.
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The VVitch / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
The VVitch / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: Par for the course for a 17th-century Puritan family. Caleb clearly has a lot of angst about hitting puberty, and he frequently finds himself sneaking peeks at his sister's cleavage. Appropriately, the witch appears to him as an alluring woman who seduces him. Likewise, Thomasin sees the devil as a handsome dark-haired man who invites her to "live deliciously", and the last scene of the movie shows her stripping off her clothes and going to join a nude witches' dance in the forest, which can be seen as a dark portrait of female sexual awakening.
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The VVitch / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The VVitch / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The opening scene, for William, where he expertly defends his actions from the hypocrisy of the Puritan council... and consequently gets his whole family banished from the community when he's too stubborn to swallow his pride and accept an offer of clemency from the council if he recants his actions.
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The VVitch / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The VVitch / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: After Thomasin falls off of the horse, the horse is never seen again.
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The VVitch / int_8a3c406e	type	Hair-Raising Hare
The VVitch / int_8a3c406e	comment	Hair-Raising Hare: The hare familiar, which causes William's gun to backfire, spooks the goats, and creates trouble for Thomasin and Caleb in the woods, leading to Caleb's death.
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The VVitch / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The VVitch / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Thomasin was most likely lashing out because she was still stinging from Mercy's taunt, but claiming to be the witch that made Sam disappear and then threatening to do the same to everyone else was a horribly unwise decision. While Thomasin had no way of predicting how that would come back to bite her, Mercy or Caleb could have told their parents what she'd said and gotten her into an enormous amount of trouble, especially given that both parents were highly religious and still raw from Sam's disappearance... which Katherine already partially blamed her for. William for getting himself and his family banished from the Commonwealth and going into the wilds in the first place, to say nothing of his stubborn refusal to leave there as it clearly becomes a problem.
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The VVitch / int_8dbec56b	type	Cast Speciation
The VVitch / int_8dbec56b	comment	Cast Speciation: When it comes to the twins, Mercy is the louder and more dominant one - with more focus and characterization than Jonas.
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The VVitch / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
The VVitch / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: The six core members of the family (William, Katherine, Thomasin, Caleb, Jonas, Mercy) are the only characters with any significant amount of dialogue or screentime. Other than them, there's just the town council in the opening scene, the titular witch herself, Satan's human form, and the witches' coven at the end, all of whom appear only fleetingly.
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The VVitch / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The VVitch / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Katherine blames Thomasin for the misfortunes happening and tries to choke her to death only to be killed instead. Given her treatment of Thomasin throughout the film, it's hard to feel bad for her.
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The VVitch / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The VVitch / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The family literally settles at the fringes of the territory protected by God, tempting the clear limit of the God-forsaken wilderness of the woods. Settling there is bad enough, but venturing into said woods is precisely what starts breaking everything apart for them. Black Phillip's human form resembles a Cavalier, and royalist Cavaliers were enemies of the parliamentarian Roundheads, whom most Puritans supported. It's no coincidence that he's the walking embodiment of everything Thomasin's faith opposes. When Thomasin is ritually reborn as a witch she is, quite fittingly, naked and covered in her mother's blood.
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The VVitch / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The VVitch / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Although set in New England, the family is from here originally and speaks with Northern English accents.
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The VVitch / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
The VVitch / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Jonas and Mercy are absolutely inseparable. They have the same mischievous personality, and they can always sing in perfect harmony.
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The VVitch / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The VVitch / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Thomasin, in a prank to play on Mercy, brags about being a nefarious Witch and frightens her, eventually causing suspicion in the family after Caleb dies. Guess who becomes an actual Witch at the end? Thomasin's prayer at the beginning of the film basically lays the groundwork for her turn to evil at the end. At one point in the film, there is a close-up of Black Philip's face, including one eye. Goat pupils are typically rectangular◊; Black Philip's are round, indicating that he is not really a goat. When Katherine awakes in the middle of the night, her silver cup is in shot, foreshadowing that either lost things are returning, or that she's seeing things that are not there.
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The VVitch / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
The VVitch / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The titular witch only has a few minutes of screentime. She isn't even the primary antagonist, that would be Satan disguised as Black Phillip. Unless the title is referring to Thomasin.
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The VVitch / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The VVitch / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: The title refers to the family's main antagonist, but also to Thomasin, who becomes a witch herself by the end.
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The VVitch / int_a8cff6a	type	Familiar
The VVitch / int_a8cff6a	comment	Familiar: The hare, the raven, and Black Phillip.
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The VVitch / int_aee8ec77	type	Creepy Children Singing
The VVitch / int_aee8ec77	comment	Creepy Children Singing: The twins' song about Black Phillip.
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The VVitch / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The VVitch / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The family are Puritans who pray for worldly suffering as spiritual purification; they get more than they ever could have asked for, and are none the more righteous for it.
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The VVitch / int_b156a790	type	Evil Sounds Raspy
The VVitch / int_b156a790	comment	Evil Sounds Raspy: In the penultimate scene, Satan speaks in a high-pitched whisper.
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The VVitch / int_b31c84f9	type	Evil Is Not Well-Lit
The VVitch / int_b31c84f9	comment	Evil Is Not Well-Lit: The witch's true form is only ever seen in very dim lighting. In the film's penultimate scene, Satan's human form is barely visible in the shadows behind Thomasin.
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The VVitch / int_b351349c	type	Flowery Elizabethan English
The VVitch / int_b351349c	comment	Flowery Elizabethan English: All the dialogue in the film is written in an approximation of Early Modern English, the form of the language that would have been spoken by English colonists in America in the early 17th century, though the accents and pronunciations used by all the actors are mostly modern. The archaic vocabulary has proven difficult for some viewers to understand without subtitles.
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The VVitch / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
The VVitch / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: The enticements for signing the Devil's book include getting a new dress and butter. That this is what "living deliciously" apparently means speaks to how deprived the family's lifestyle is.
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The VVitch / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The VVitch / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: William spouts blood after getting his guts ripped open by Black Phillip's horns.
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The VVitch / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The VVitch / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: As with the rest of the dialogue, the film's profanity is in archaic English. This makes William's very modern "Bitch!", directed at Thomasin, come across as this.
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The VVitch / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The VVitch / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Caleb is unfortunately entering maturity and seems to be mildly lusting after Thomasin, whom he covertly subjects to his Male Gaze. Weirdly, Katherine later accuses Thomasin of throwing "slutty glances" at Caleb and William when Thomasin was never shown doing this, though admittedly Katherine is in the throes of some severe Sanity Slippage at the time. There's also a moment where Thomasin is ordered to clean her father's shirt, so she has to take it off him herself, which she looks uncomfortable with doing.
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The VVitch / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The VVitch / int_bef696dd	comment	Caleb is cured of witchcraft by his family's prayer, and passionately proclaims his love for Christ, but dies shortly after, seemingly from shock. Although as per the Mind Screw nature of the film, Caleb's final exclamation could also be interpreted as the Witch/the Devil using scripture to trick the family, as pointed out by Katherine.
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The VVitch / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The VVitch / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: When Black Phillip comes out of left field to attack William.
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The VVitch / int_c6078997	type	New England Puritan
The VVitch / int_c6078997	comment	New England Puritan: The main protagonists are a family who got expelled from their colonial-era town because the father's religious views were too extreme even for their Puritan community, forcing them out into a remote homestead. Once the Witch starts targeting them, his rigid faith winds up merely digging him and his family in a deeper hole.
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The VVitch / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The VVitch / int_c660bc15	comment	The eponymous villain is almost always naked and - judging by the demented laughter, frenzied chanting and animal cruelty - is barely sane. Plus, she's also extremely elderly.
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The VVitch / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
The VVitch / int_c66f2bb5	comment	Witch Hunt: A misguided witch hunt within a family.
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The VVitch / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The VVitch / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: William is mortally wounded when he's impaled by Black Phillip's horns.
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The VVitch / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
The VVitch / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Katherine to Thomasin in their final confrontation. While she does scream about Thomasin being responsible for the deaths, most of her tirade is accusing Thomasin of being a "proud slut" and implies she was trying to seduce her own brother and father. Note that Thomasin never showed the slightest inclination towards this and if anything Caleb seemed to lust for Thomasin, which Katherine might be blaming Thomasin for. Considering how witches were believed to have sex with Satan, Katherine might be projecting false memories of sexually deviant behavior onto her daughter.
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The VVitch / int_c9d9a85f	type	Hot Witch
The VVitch / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: The witch takes the form of an attractive, well-endowed woman to seduce Caleb. If more than one is targeting the family, this may have been one of those shown in the end (dark-haired girls are seen there) so it may have been her real appearance.
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The VVitch / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The VVitch / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Left deliberately vague. All supernatural scenes are only witnessed by one person at a time, and could as well be hallucinations or fantasies.
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The VVitch / int_ccfc0535	type	Letting Her Hair Down
The VVitch / int_ccfc0535	comment	Letting Her Hair Down: A gradual example with Thomasin. As noted in Renegade Cut's video on the film, the hair is supposed to represent how repressed she is in her Puritan lifestyle, and she finally lets it all hang out as she becomes a Witch at the end. Katherine likewise is shown with her hair completely down after she has gone mad and tries to kill Thomasin.
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The VVitch / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The VVitch / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The witch spends most of the movie hiding in the forest. When she does appear, she's often hidden in shadow. If she was ever really there at all. We see very little of Satan's human form - a single boot and the lower half of a face obscured in shadows, but that's all that's needed to get the point across to the audience very effectively.
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The VVitch / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The VVitch / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Thomasin epically calls William on being one. He demands that she speak only truth to him about being a witch, and refuses to believe her when she denies it. She fires back that he has lied repeatedly to the family - letting her and Caleb take the blame for his actions - so it's incredibly rich of him to doubt her honesty.
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The VVitch / int_d869149e	type	Sold His Soul for a Donut
The VVitch / int_d869149e	comment	Sold His Soul for a Donut: Played for Drama. When Thomasin asks Black Philip what he can give her, he offers "the taste of butter" and "a pretty dress". Between her repressed, puritan upbringing and the desperate situation she's in, it's enough to get her to to sign his book.
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The VVitch / int_d8fea106	type	Naked Nutter
The VVitch / int_d8fea106	comment	Naked Nutter: The eponymous villain is almost always naked and - judging by the demented laughter, frenzied chanting and animal cruelty - is barely sane. Plus, she's also extremely elderly. After being accidentally stranded in the forest, Caleb finds himself face to face with the Witch herself. He later turns up back at the family farm, delirious, incoherent and stark naked. It's not specified what the Witch did to Caleb, though the implications aren't nice; whatever happened, it eventually ends up killing him. At the very end of the film, Thomasin plunges over the Despair Event Horizon after the rest of her family is killed, leaving her stranded alone at the farm with no means of providing for herself and no help for miles. Calling out to Black Phillip, she accepts a literal Deal with the Devil and - at his prompting - strips nude and wanders out into the forest to join the other witches. As she rises naked into the night with the rest of the coven, the look on her face indicates that she's finally crossed the line into madness.
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The VVitch / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The VVitch / int_da53340	comment	Religious Horror: A Puritan family, a witch, and Satan himself.
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The VVitch / int_dbc41ba9	type	Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
The VVitch / int_dbc41ba9	comment	Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: The witch that seduces Caleb takes the form of a voiceless dark-haired temptress.
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The VVitch / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The VVitch / int_dda99fa8	comment	At the very end of the film, Thomasin plunges over the Despair Event Horizon after the rest of her family is killed, leaving her stranded alone at the farm with no means of providing for herself and no help for miles. Calling out to Black Phillip, she accepts a literal Deal with the Devil and - at his prompting - strips nude and wanders out into the forest to join the other witches. As she rises naked into the night with the rest of the coven, the look on her face indicates that she's finally crossed the line into madness.
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The VVitch / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The VVitch / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Throughout the first act, Caleb is given more focus than Thomasin, before the second and third switch largely to her point-of-view.
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The VVitch / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The VVitch / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Played for Drama. Caleb's gaze lingers on Thomasin's cleavage a few times, indicating that he's struggling with his own sexual desires as he comes of age.
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The VVitch / int_e0e3a0ba	type	Salem Is Witch Country
The VVitch / int_e0e3a0ba	comment	Salem Is Witch Country: The film takes place in Puritan New England.
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The VVitch / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The VVitch / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Various animals foreshadow the witch's appearance before she actually shows up. There's a hare, a raven, and "Black Phillip" the goat, in particular. Hares and rabbits are sometimes associated with irrational fear, ravens are associated with prophecy and witchcraft, and the horned goat is associated with Satan himself. There are also stories of witches transforming themselves into rabbits or hares, and sneaking onto farms to suck milk out of various animals... like goats.
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The VVitch / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The VVitch / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: For all William's flaws, he clearly loves his eldest son Caleb, and wants to raise him as an upright Christian man. Caleb's death signals his descent into paranoia.
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The VVitch / int_e41b191f	type	Nude Nature Dance
The VVitch / int_e41b191f	comment	Nude Nature Dance: In the final scene, Thomasin joins a coven of naked witches performing a ritual around a campfire in the woods.
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The VVitch / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The VVitch / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Right after the ending and before the credits, a piece of text◊ comes up saying that the film was not only inspired by fairytales and folklore on that period but also eyewitness accounts and journal entries written on witchcraft.
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The VVitch / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Thomasin lets William have it for being a hypocrite and letting her take the blame for several events, only admitting the truth after the damage was done.
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The VVitch / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The VVitch / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The witch that seduces Caleb wears the brightest colored clothes in the movie.
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The VVitch / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
The VVitch / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: Apparently, the blood of newborns is required to power broomsticks.
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The VVitch / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Black Phillip has a very ominous vibe around him, what with being a black goat and all. Then it turns out he's literally Satan, and in his human form he's dressed entirely in black.
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The VVitch / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The VVitch / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Especially unsettling in this case, as the "party" is a family.
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The VVitch / int_f0ff2e21	comment	Lucky Number Seven: There are seven members of the family in total: William, Katherine, Thomasin, Caleb, Jonas, Mercy, and baby Samuel (though Samuel isn't around for long). Considering the movie revolves around witchcraft—where seven is seen as an inherently magical number—this likely isn't a coincidence.
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The VVitch / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The VVitch / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Caleb is cured of witchcraft by his family's prayer, and passionately proclaims his love for Christ, but dies shortly after, seemingly from shock. Although as per the Mind Screw nature of the film, Caleb's final exclamation could also be interpreted as the Witch/the Devil using scripture to trick the family, as pointed out by Katherine. William accepts his prideful nature and begs God for forgiveness and especially for the redemption of his children. The morning after, he is mortally wounded by Black Phillip. He contemplates killing the goat with his axe, but drops it and resigns himself to fate, quoting from the Book of Job before dying.
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The VVitch / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The Caleb that appears to Katherine after his death, who seems emotionless and speaks in a distorted voice. It's a diabolical force pretending to be him.
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The VVitch / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The VVitch / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: William and Katherine. They are extremely religious, as you'd expect of a Puritan couple in the 17th century - constantly praying, quoting Bible verses, and interpreting everything that happens to them through their religious belief system. William's strong religious beliefs even got them banished from the Commonwealth. However, for most of the film, their chief concern is keeping their children fed and clothed. After Caleb's death, though...
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The VVitch / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
The VVitch / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: The family has gone from having glass windows back in England, which would have marked them out as quite wealthy for the time, to living in an earth-floored hut outside of the plantation, out of William's prideful wish to worship his way.
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The VVitch / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
The VVitch / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: Unsurprisingly, due to their trying circumstances, just about everyone in the family struggles with belief. Caleb and Katherine are both deeply concerned that Samuel may have ended up in Hell due to being unbaptized.
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The VVitch / int_fdf7d23d	type	Lady in Red
The VVitch / int_fdf7d23d	comment	Lady in Red: It's no coincidence that the witch who seduces Caleb and is implied to have raped him appears wearing a red cloak. It's the only time in the film we see someone wearing red (as bright colors and finery were forbidden in Puritan society).
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The VVitch / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Robert Eggers thoroughly researched the period's dialects, clothing, architecture and farming. The film is also accurate to the classical lore of witches.
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