Robert Eggers made his directorial debut in 2015 with The Witch. Set in the 1630s New England, the film centers on a family kicked out of a Puritan colony over a religious dispute. When parents William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) set up their new homestead on the edge of the forest, strange things start happening, beginning with the disappearance of their newborn son. Soon after, their crops begin to fail.
The family starts to turn on one another, and a family goat named Black Billy isn't what he seems. The eldest daughter, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), is accused of witchcraft after other family members go missing. Taken altogether, it's a pretty terrifying brew.
Several Reddit users dubbed The Witch as "everything I was looking for in a horror movie." Another claimed, "The Witch was one of the most unsettling horror genre movies I've ever seen."
The jury is out; The Witch takes the cake for the absolute best witchcraft horror movie because of its moodiness and haunting storyline.
