Some Ramblings on Evil, Halloween Movies, the "Great Physician," and "This Political Climate"
[This movie poster is misleading, because there's far more naked ugly ladies and goats and other early Colonial goosebumps and (fun fact!) the dialogue comes from actual transcripts of witch hunts!] One of the most spiritually meaningful R-sie movies about Colonial America I ever saw was The Witch , or as I like to call it The VVitch . All kinds of spoilers here that don't matter to the enjoyment of the film, but the general plot is that a family, exiled from the settlement, because of their father's heterodox ideas, finds themselves on the edge of a dark forest. A literal witch literally steals and literally eats their baby, which is bad news all the time, but this dumb family blames their teenage daughter, who does regular teenagery things like tries to scare her annoying siblings. But everything she's done becomes interpreted as witchcraft and one-by-one everyone in her family begins to turn against her. But the main thing is that everyone --total spoiler--die