A new trailer for A24’s upcoming horror film The Witch has just arrived online. Expect this to be the final trailer before the movie bows in cinemas from March 11th (UK). The film actually debuted at last year’s Sundance Film Festival (to huge acclaim), and we’ve already reviewed it at the London Film Festival back in October. It’s scary. Very scary.
Here’s quite a detailed synopsis, followed by the new trailer. U.S. audiences can get a glimpse of The Witch from February 26th, 2016.
In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling in the New England wilderness circa 1630.
New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, 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 – within which lurks an unknown evil. 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 of witchcraft, charges she adamantly denies. As circumstances grow more treacherous, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love become tested in shocking and unforgettable ways.
