Today I will recap a 2015 period supernatural horror film written and directed by Robert
Eggers.
Set in the 1630s, it follows a Puritan family who encounters forces of evil in the woods
beyond their New England farm Kindly remember to like, comment, and subscribe
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The film starts in 1963 in New England, where an English settler William and his family,
spouse Katherine, daughter Thomasin, child Caleb, and fraternal twins
Mercy and Jonas are prohibited from a Puritan province over a religious dispute.
They then build a farm near a large, secluded forest.
Presently we see that Thomson is playing peekaboo with Katherine's newly born baby Samuel, but
all of a sudden Samuel disappears from there which leaves her very shocked.
Then we see that somebody is taking Samuel to the forest, after which we see a naked
old woman who sacrifices Samuel, and afterward she makes an ointment from his blood which
she begins applying all over her body, and that lady was a witch, whom we then see flying.
Now Caleb comes to William where William lets him know that they can't look for Samuel any
longer.
They felt here that a wolf had taken him.
Then both of them start going inside the forest to hunt.
They see that no animal was trapped in the trap William had set up, after which they
set it up once more.
Here Caleb questions whether Samuel's unbaptized soul will arrive at Heaven?
to which William asks him not to talk about it, on which he begins contending with him.
Then William clears up for him that only God knnows who will go to Heaven, and afterward,
he reveals to Caleb that he exchanged Katherine's valued silver cup for hunting supplies.
He asks him not to tell anything regarding this to his mom and only then do they hear
their dog Fowler barking.
They see a bunny there, and as William was going to fire it, his weapon misfires, harming
his eye.
Afterward, mercy was playing when she tells that she is the witch and she attempts to
scare Thomsin and Caleb, Here she tells that a witch has taken Samuel and she saw her flying
in the forest.
Now Thomson begins to frighten her and says that she is the witch of the wilderness and
she has signed the book of Satan.
She then threatens her that if she tries to tell her mother about it, she will boil and
eat her.
Now Mercy gets extremely frightened seeing this and runs off from that point.
Later at dinner time, Katharine asks Thomsin about the silver cup and tells her that it
has been missing for quite a while.
She suspects her to be responsible for Samuel's disappearance, to which William says that
Thomson did nothing.
All of a sudden they hear their goats, at which Katharine asks Thomsin to head outside
and check.
Now when Thomsin heads outside, she sees that same rabbit there.
Later, Katharine and William were talking around evening time where they were discussing
about sending Thomasin away to serve another family, But the kids were listening to everything.
After this, we see Caleb in the stable where he is planning to head off to some place,
however, Thomsin comes there and asks him what he is doing?
Caleb tells him to go to sleep but Thomsin forces him to take her with him by threatening
to awaken their parents.
After this we see them going to the forest where they find a rabbit trapped in the trap.
Now they are coming back talking when Fowler starts barking and they see that the same
rabbit is sitting in front of them.
Now seeing this, their horse gets into a panic.
Fowler gives chase to the rabbit, and Caleb pursues them.
The horse throws Thomasin, knocking her unconscious, and runs away.
Then we see Caleb get lost in the woods when he hears Fowler groaning in pain, and then
he finds his disemboweled body.
He then discovers a hovel, from which the witch disguised as a beautiful woman emerges
to seduce him.
She kisses and embraces Caleb, her arm growing old and withered as she caresses his head.
On the other hand, William finds Thomsin and takes her home Where Katharine asks Thomsin
why did she take Caleb to the woods?
Now before she tells her anything, William says that he has sold his father's cup.
He then tells that he had taken Caleb to the forest so that he could earn some money by
selling animal skins.
Hearing this, she gets very angry and starts shouting at him.
Next, we see Thomsin in the stable just when he hears some noise from outside and discovers
Caleb outside the home, nude, delirious, and mysteriously ill.
Then they bring him inside and start treating him.
The next day, the twins converse and sing songs with Black Phillip, the family's billy
goat, and accuse Thomasin of witchcraft.
Thomasin attempts to milk the goat, But she sees that instead of milk, blood is coming
out.
seeing as she gets scared.
William later walks in, where Katharine tells him she thinks Caleb is a victim of black
magic, but William disagrees and says he will go back to the plantation tomorrow to find
a good family for Thomsin and will take Caleb to the doctor.
After this, we see that something starts happening to Caleb and he seemed possessed.
Then suddenly his mouth closes which William tries to open and then he vomits up a whole
apple with a single bite taken out of it.
Now seeing this, the children say that Thomsin is a witch and has sold his soul to the devil.
Their parents are shocked to hear all this and Thomson tries to convince them.
After this, William asks them all to pray for Caleb, but the children say that they
are unable to remember their prayers.
Then Caleb regains consciousness and starts saying strange things and the children also
start suffering from pain.
Now seeing this, their parents get very upset and then they start reading prayers but after
a while, Caleb passionately begins proclaiming his love for Christ and dies.
Due to his death, all those people go into shock and the children were also unconscious.
Now Katharine blames Thomsin for all this, due to which she leaves there in grief.
Then William walks up to her and consoles her but begins to think that Thomson is really
a witch.
He says that he saw that she stopped the children's prayers and Caleb had disappeared with her
and then she found him.
Thomsin tries to convince him that she is not a witch but William forces her to tell
the truth.
Now Thomsin says that in reality he and her mother want to get rid of her.
She says that he committed the sins and keeps putting all the blame on her, which makes
William angry.
Now she says why doesn't he ask his twins, who keep talking to that goat all day long.
She says that the goat is the Devil and It has done magic on the farm.
William does not believe her words, to which she says that Mercy herself told her that
she is the witch of the forest.
Now William brings her to the house where he tells her to tell everything to her mother
to which she reveals that Thomson and Mercy talk to the devil in the form of a black goat.
After this William seals the children in the goat house and he tells Thomson that he will
take her to the plantation tomorrow morning.
Now Thomsin asks the children if they are both witches?
to which they ask her if she is?
Then she asks if this goat really talks to both of them?
On which they do not say anything.
Later, Thomasin overhears William breaking down and confessing to God that he has been
prideful and that he made his family leave their village out of stubbornness rather than
sincere religious devotion.
That night we see Katherine who sees Caleb in the house holding Samuel in his arms.
She goes up to him and hugs him.
He says that he has brought a book for her and will she read with him?
Then he hands Samuel to her and she starts breastfeeding him, but it is actually a raven
that pecks at her breast.
On the other hand, the children awaken to see the witch drinking blood from the nanny
goat, which turns to attack the twins.
Now the next morning William wakes up and comes out where he sees that his stable has
been destroyed.
the goats had been disemboweled and an unconscious Thomasin lying nearby with bloodstained hands
Then Thomsin regains consciousness and suddenly someone attacks William and she sees that
it is Black Philip.
Now William picks up an ax to kill it, but Black Philip attacks him again, causing him
to hit a pile of wood and he dies there.
Then Thomsin goes to check on him but just then Katharine comes there and begins blaming
her for the tragedies that have befallen the family.
Thomsin tries to convince her that she is her daughter but Katharine says she is a witch
and killed her brothers and father.
She also accuses her of seducing William and Caleb.
Then she starts assaulting her physically but Thomson attacks her with a bill hook in
self-attack, which injures her face and she dies there.
Now in the night Thomson hears chiming, after listening to which she goes towards the stable
where Black Philip is standing, and then he goes inside.
She follows him inside where she asks him to speak with her, and then The goat responds
with a human voice, asking if she would like to "live deliciously," in a life of luxury,
and materializes into a tall, black-clad man.
He then asks her to take off her clothes, which she does the same and then he asks her
to write her name on a book placed in front of her.
After this we see her going towards the forest, She follows Black Phillip into the forest
nude, where she sees a coven holding a Witches' Sabbath around a bonfire.
She joins them and then she sees Witches start levitating, Thomas starts laughing maniacally,
and afterward we see her rising over the trees and the film closes here.
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