In his debut feature, writer/director Robert Eggers painstakingly designs an authentic re-creation of New England – generations before the 1692 trials in Salem – evoking the alluring and terrifying power of the timeless witch myth.
New England, 1630. An English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately—animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, family members accuse teenage daughter Thomasin (in a star-making performance by Anya Taylor-Joy) of witchcraft. As circumstances grow more treacherous, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love become tested in shocking and unforgettable ways.
