FOLK Pt 12: The Witch (2015)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
This week Mike is joined by Louise Blain to discuss Robert Eggers 2015 masterpiece, the VVITCH.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER
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| 0:00.0 | The The 17th century New England |
| 0:27.8 | a family moves to an isolated home in the woods |
| 0:31.1 | to live a pure peaceful godly life free from the sin and the corruption |
| 0:36.8 | that had infected their village. |
| 0:39.2 | Give us the sins we have this day committed against the free us from the shame and |
| 0:43.4 | telling me which I do want to us for them. But the family soon come to realize |
| 0:47.0 | that there's something else living in the woods, something that's far from |
| 0:51.4 | pure, something rotten, something that slowly but surely is going to rip their family apart peace by peace. ... ... |
| 1:03.0 | ... |
| 1:04.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of folk horror |
| 1:10.0 | and we begin to unpick Robert Eggers New England folk tale, The Witch. |
| 1:17.0 | Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:27.0 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:29.0 | If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. |
| 1:32.0 | In this podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre |
| 1:35.0 | by looking at particular sub-jomras across several weeks. |
| 1:38.0 | We are currently in the midst of exploring the evolution of folk horror |
| 1:42.0 | and this is part 12 in which as the of the witch. So this is your spoiler warning. We will be talking about the witch in |
| 1:56.4 | detail including that iconic ending. So if you haven't seen the witch I would urge |
| 2:01.7 | you to go away seek it out and watch it |
| 2:04.8 | It's really quite a film love it or hated it's always going to be a movie that you're going to remember so I really would recommend giving it a watch and then coming back. Now before we get |
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