'The Witch' is the perfect horror movie to watch this October
When 2015’s The Witch (or VVitch if you prefer) was released, I wasn’t a fan of horror movies. I had at one point hated them, but with the blossoming of my film interest I realized that I need to watch scary movies. I had just started my journey into the genre, having seasoned myself on genre classics such as The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Of these films, The Shining was the only one to have any effect on me. While initially one of confusion and unease, the effect soon shifted to one of awe at Stanley Kubrick’s mastery of directing. So, when a promo for The Witch popped up on my Twitter feed one evening, I saw it as an opportunity to experience a horror film in the cinema, something I had yet to do. Thirty minutes later, my friends and I found ourselves in an empty theater watching the logo for A24 materialize on the big screen.