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Originally Posted by Antagon

I haven't seen The Witch (not doing the double V-thing, it was only a stylistic choice in the promotional posters and apart from imdb no site refers to it that way) so I can't speak for either its merits or against its shortcomings, but I'd say you're missing out on something. Even if, let's say you don't like the plot progression or the type of narrative, the cinematography and the sound design alone are well worth a watch. And Dafoe's acting is absolutely superb and delightful in its twisted ghastliness.

i appreciated the witch better on rewatch, and knowing what it had meant to recreate

i did have a problem with my teevee depicting the darkness in hd, maybe it required HDR, maybe it was something else, i had at time problems seeing what was on the screen. purposeful obscurity or technical limitation, some day i might know

great atmospherics, although the plot is not really a plot, which can be bothersome. but once you understand the nature of the source material you can say “ah!” and readjust your expectations

maybe it should help to say, without real spoilers: it’s not meant to be a tight modern narrative, rather it gathers materials from old-timey horror folktales of the early new england colony, and stitches them together.

from that perspective, it was very good, but my initial reaction was disappointment. then it “grew on me,” as they say.