Watching The Witch with Two Actual Witches

Peg Aloi
7 min readOct 27, 2020

(originally published on the A24 Film blog!)

Robert Eggers’ is a witch’s witch movie

It’s steeped in history; Eggers spent years researching Puritanical New England of the 1600s, and stayed faithful to the period by skipping the over-the-top, lightning bolt special effects you see with most onscreen witches. (He really committed to the mood: His crew only shot in…

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Peg Aloi

The Media Witch is a multi-faceted writer, mainly a film/TV critic. She’s also a tree-hugging weirdo and badass bitch with a nice head o' hair.