"I Will Guide Thy Hand"
Imagine if all the senseless killings in the Salem Witch Trials were not actually caused by extreme self righteousness and religious fear but by the actual creatures that the pious leaders were making up! The Witch explores this possibility, like The Crucible written by Stephen King and directed by Terrence Mallick after he watched The Shining. Okay, maybe that specific collaboration and set of circumstances does not exist, but the closest thing to that reality does. It is the first great film of 2016 and one of the best true horror films in recent years. It finds truth in both reality and fantasy and is all the more terrifying because of it.
