21: The Witch (2015)

Like a witch inviting young children to their hut, we invite you, dear listener, to join us for a spooky Halloween/Election Day bonus episode on Robert Eggers’ 2015 feature debut, The Witch: A New England Folktale. Set in the early 1600s, a family of Puritans is forced to leave their community and live in the wilds of the untamed forest where a tragedy and subsequent horrors foster deceit and suspicion within the family.

“The VVitch,” as it’s famously stylized, explores the dissonance between civilization and nature, religion and freedom. We explored the idea of predestination as a theme and were left wondering what the best-case scenario might have looked like, what happened to the twins (paste?) and if Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) was *actually* liberated as she joined the coven flying naked in the trees. God bless Black Phillip.

We are joined on this episode by friend of the show Caleb Warwick.

Motion Picture Pals is co-hosted by Cam Call, Rebekah Markillie, Joel Aleman, and producer Travis Lien.

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