What? Only $4 million to make a film like that? Insane. I figured at least $20 million if not higher. That makes me appreciate the work all the more.

God, The Witch is such a great film. It never hits a false note and maintains its tone throughout — and Anya Taylor-Joy is so very good in this. All the cast is, for that matter. That’s why The Witch is one of my favorite films of the last decade, if not my favorite. It just transports you to a different world, strands you there and says, “Here, look.”

It’s not for everyone — it does not hold your hand, it does not condescend, and it does not attempt (as nearly all modern films would) to pretend these fundamentalist Puritan characters in 17th Century New England think nor act anything like us. And that is exactly what makes the film great. It has the courage to be a real movie.