A24 unveils trailer and poster for Sundance hit The Witch

Jarin Blashke’s (I Believe in Unicorns) dreamy grey-scale cinematography stands out right away, transporting the audience into a new time, place, and mentality.

“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”, reads their press statement. The first trailer for the period horror movie has now crept online.

The best film I saw at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was Robert Eggers’ “The Witch”, a super-stylish, super-scary, witchy brew of madness that bears the mark of a seasoned auteur. Directed by Robert Eggers, the film takes us back to pre-colonial New England where a small settlement gets smaller after a family is excommunicated and forced to hack it in the wilderness alone. According to the official description, “When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another”.

The film has Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Katie Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, and Ellie Grainger in the lead, and is scheduled for a theatrical release in 2016.

As you can see by the trailer, Eggers and his cinematographer Jarin Blaschke go for a heightened but realistic approach, which only makes the unseen supernatural aspects more genuine.

So what do you think about The Witch trailer, readers?