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Thesecond installment of the cult classic Hocus Pocus sees the Sanderson Sisters 29 years after the Black Flame Candle was last lit. They're once again wreaking havoc on Salem, and it's up to a new crew of teens to end them once and for all.

After a 10-year-old girl accidentally walks in on her father cheating on her mother, she eventually finds herself entangled in a world of voodoo spells and witchcraft in her small Louisiana town.

This film has the perfect mixture of fantasy and thrill. A witch's quest to restore her beauty intertwines her in the stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack & the Beanstalk.

In this modern twist on the classic fairy tale Snow White, an orphaned princess is cast into the forest by an evil witch. She is then thrusted into a journey to overthrow the witch queen and reclaim her throne.

If you're familiar with the television series starring Melissa Joan Hart, this is the movie that started it all. A young girl stays with her aunts for the summer, only to discover unexplainable happenings and her own incredible powers.

A young American dancer discovers something sinister happening behind the scenes at the prestigious German dance company she joins. Dakota Johnson stars in this remake of the 1977 supernatural horror film.

In this horror movie, three film students disappear while working on a project documenting a local legend: the Blair Witch. Their equipment and footage was all that was left behind, and that's what viewers watch in this movie.

A Disney Channel favorite, this movie follows teenage Marnie, who's just learned that she comes from a long line of witches. Her grandmother (played by the iconic Debbie Reynolds) and the people of Halloweentown help her learn more about her family history.

Based on the truly terrifying legend of the Bell Witch, a southern folk story that centers on the Bells of Tennessee. As the tale goes, the family was terrorized for years by an invisible force that could shapeshift and physically attack them.

With all of their spells and riding around on broomsticks, the crew from Harry Potter was an easy inclusion in this witchy roundup. Watch Harry discover his magical powers and seek to uncover the secrets surrounding his parents in this film. Remember, Hermione is a witch!

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When we consider the concept of witches in movies, we tend to first fall back on the old bits of iconography. Pointed hats and warty chins. Malicious old crones, twisted and deformed by a lifetime (or several lifetimes) of practicing the dark arts. Flying broomsticks and children in cages, waiting for the oven to adequately preheat. You know, standard witch stuff.

The Witch (stylized as The VVitch, and subtitled A New-England Folktale) is a 2015 folk horror[7] film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her feature film debut, alongside Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson. Set in 1630s New England, its plot follows a Puritan family who encounter forces of evil in the woods beyond their farm.[8]

An international co-production of the United States and Canada, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2015, and was widely released by A24 on February 19, 2016. It was a critical and financial success, grossing $40 million against a $4 million budget,[6] and is considered by some to be one of the best horror films of the 2010s.[9][10][11]

Devastated by the loss, Katherine spends her days crying and praying. William takes Caleb hunting in the woods, where Caleb wonders if the unbaptized Samuel went to Heaven. In response, William discloses that he secretly traded Katherine's prized silver cup for hunting supplies. At the farm, the twins play with the family's billy goat, Black Phillip, who the children say talks to them. Katherine blames Thomasin for misplacing her silver cup and holds her responsible for the loss of Samuel. That night, the children overhear their parents arguing about their possible starvation, and making plans to send Thomasin away to serve another family.

The next morning, Thomasin and Caleb sneak into the forest to check a trap. Their dog Fowler chases a hare, with Caleb in pursuit; the hare frightens their horse, which throws Thomasin to the ground and knocks her unconscious. Caleb becomes lost and discovers Fowler's disemboweled body. Delving further into the thicket, he discovers a hovel from which the witch, disguised as a seductive young woman, emerges and kisses him. Thomasin awakes and finds her way home by following William's voice. As Katherine berates Thomasin for taking Caleb into the woods, William defends Thomasin by reluctantly admitting that he sold the cup.

That night, Caleb returns to the farm naked, delirious, and mysteriously ill. Katherine suggests that Caleb has fallen victim to witchcraft and prays for him. The next day, Caleb goes into violent convulsions and vomits a whole apple, before passionately proclaiming his love for Christ and dying peacefully. The twins accuse Thomasin of practicing witchcraft, but she in turn accuses the two of them for their supposed conversations with Black Phillip. Angered by his children's behavior, William locks them in the goat house.

In the middle of the night, the twins and Thomasin awake to find the witch drinking the blood of a nanny goat. In the house, Katherine has a hallucinatory vision in which Caleb and Samuel have returned. In her dream, she takes Samuel and nurses him, but in reality, a raven is pecking at her breast. At dawn, William finds the goat stable destroyed, the goats eviscerated, the twins missing, and an unconscious Thomasin with bloodied hands. As she stirs, William attacks her, but Black Phillip gores and kills him. An unhinged Katherine blames Thomasin for everything that has happened and tries to strangle her. In self-defense, Thomasin tearfully kills her mother with a billhook.

Now alone, Thomasin enters the goat house and urges Black Phillip to speak to her. The goat responds in a human voice and materializes into a handsome, black-clad man. He asks Thomasin if she wants to "live deliciously," and tells her to remove her clothes and sign her name in a book, promising her the life she has always wanted. Thomasin, accompanied by Black Phillip as a goat, then enters the forest nude, where she finds a coven holding a Witches' Sabbath around a bonfire. The witches begin to levitate, and Thomasin joins them, laughing as she ascends above the trees.

Eggers, who lived in New Hampshire, was inspired to write the film by his childhood fascination with witches and frequent visits to the Plimoth Plantation as a schoolboy. After unsuccessfully pitching films that were "too weird, too obscure", Eggers realized that he would have to make a more conventional film.[15] He said at a Q&A, "If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good."[15] Director Alfonso Cuarn read the screenplay in 2013, saying it made him "more than anything, curious."[16] The production team worked extensively with British and American museums, as well as consulting experts on 17th-century British agriculture.[17] Eggers wanted the set constructed to be as historically accurate as possible, and therefore brought in a thatcher and a carpenter from Virginia and Massachusetts, respectively, who had the proper experience building in the style of the film's period.[18]

Although Eggers wanted to film the picture on location in New England, the lack of tax incentives meant he had to settle for Canada.[15] This proved to be something of a problem for him, because he could not find the forest environment he was looking for in the country.[15] He eventually began scouting "off the map" and found a suitable location (Kiosk, Ontario) that was "extremely remote"; he said that the nearest town "made New Hampshire look like a metropolis".[15]

To give the film an authentic look, Eggers shot only "with natural light and indoors, the only lighting was candles". He also chose to stylize the film's title as "The VVitch" (with two "V"s instead of a "W") in the title sequence and on posters, stating that he found this spelling in a Jacobean-era pamphlet on witchcraft, among other period-texts.[20]

In December 2013, costume designer Linda Muir joined the crew, and consulted 35 books in the Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England series to plan the costumes, which were made with wool, linen, and hemp. She also lobbied for a larger costume budget.[21]

Mark Korven wrote the film's score, which aimed to be "tense and dissonant" while focusing on minimalism. Eggers vetoed the use of any electronic instruments and "didn't want any traditional harmony or melody in the score"; so Korven chose to create music with atypical instruments, including the nyckelharpa and waterphone. He knew the director liked to retain a degree of creative control, so he relied on loose play centered on improvisation "so that [Eggers] could move notes around whenever he wanted".[22][23]

According to analysts, the film's impact is delivered not through scares, but by the effect of ambience and scenography.[25][26] This is stylistically represented by the film's use of expressionist lighting, the use of different kinds of camera to draw thematic limits, the editing employed to hide horror from the main sight, and the soundtrack's sonic dissonance accompanying instrumental scenes.[27] Samuel's physically impossible disappearance at the beginning of the film introduces the viewer to the film's atmosphere.[25]

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