Movies like The Witch

“The Witch (2016) is a 2010s folk-horror that stages an early-seventeenth-century family crucible. It frames eroding faith and mutual suspicion through austere, high-contrast chiaroscuro and measured, naturalistic staging that converts domestic ritual into dramatic pressure. The film demonstrates how isolation and doctrinal fear operate as social corrosives and thus serves as a compact study of communal breakdown.”