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Friday, 18 January 2019
Sunday, 19 February 2017
FILM 1620: THE WITCH
TRIVIA: According to
cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, the film was shot mostly with available and
natural light.
The premise is based on America's
first witch hysteria in colonial New England, set 62 years before the infamous
"Salem Witch Trials" which occurred in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
There were more scenes planned to
involve Black Phillip, but because he wasn't as well trained as planned, the
ideas had to be scratched.
Most of the film's dialogue and
story were based on writings from the time.
Although the film's plot was
intended to be taken literally, director Robert Eggers has spoken about a few
small hints he and the filmmakers left throughout the film that one might
interpret as reasoning behind the events, beyond the obvious supernatural. For
example, the rot on the corn is ergot - a hallucinogenic fungus.
The Satanic Temple has endorsed
this movie and hosted several screenings of the film. Their spokesperson, Jex
Blackmore, addressed the film as "an impressive presentation of Satanic
insight that will inform contemporary discussion of religious experience."
The film takes place in 1630.
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