This film proved that Robert Eggers is truly an exciting filmmaker to pay attention to, and that “The Witch” was not a fluke. It was a tense, psychological-horror drama that gripped you and messed with your mind from the beginning. It was disorientating and disturbing, so kudos to Eggers and his cinematographer Jarin Blaschke for successfully achieving an Hitchcockian result with the black and white, and 1:1.19 aspect ratio. However, for the film to work as well as it did, Willem Dafoe’s casting was inspired. Dafoe was terrific and should really get nominated. He was terrifying as he was sublime and darkly funny. Robert Pattinson also gave an outstanding performance that had moments of raw brilliance, but his wavering accent was distracting. And it was unavoidable to postulate if he was cast so that the film could be made. Nonetheless, Pattinson is a good actor, and Eggers (with his co-writer brother Max) did manage to weave his prettiness into the narrative. Eggers, together with Ari Aster (“Hereditary” and “Midsommar”), have both raised the bar for the psychological-horror genre (aka “prestige horror”; move aside Jordan Peele), and it will be very exciting to see what they will both follow up with next.
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