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* CreateYourOwnVillain: The witches are the villains of the story but [[spoiler: the rest of her family treats Thomasin so badly she eventually becomes a witch, if only just to survive]].
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: The witches are the villains of the story but [[spoiler: the rest of her [[spoiler:the family treats Thomasin so badly that she eventually becomes a witch, if only just to survive]].
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The source of all the evil haunting the family turns out to be [[spoiler:one of their goats]].
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** At one point in the film, there is a close-up of Black Philip's face, including one eye. [[spoiler:Goat pupils are typically [[http://hencam.com/static/uploads/2013/01/rectangular-eye.jpg rectangular]]; Black Philip's are round, indicating that he is not really a goat.]]
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** At one point in the film, there is a close-up of Black Philip's Phillip's face, including one eye. [[spoiler:Goat pupils are typically [[http://hencam.com/static/uploads/2013/01/rectangular-eye.jpg rectangular]]; Black Philip's Phillip's are round, indicating that he is not really a goat.]]
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* SoldHisSoulForADonut: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:When Thomasin asks Black Philip what he can give her, he offers "the taste of butter" and "a pretty dress". Between her repressed, puritan upbringing and the desperate situation she's in, it's enough to get her to to sign his book.]]
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* SoldHisSoulForADonut: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:When Thomasin asks Black Philip Phillip what he can give her, he offers "the taste of butter" and "a pretty dress". Between her repressed, puritan upbringing and the desperate situation she's in, it's enough to get her to to sign his book.]]
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''The Witch: A New-England Folktale'' (stylized as ''The [=VVitch=]'') is a ReligiousHorror historical drama film directed by Creator/RobertEggers and starring Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy and Creator/RalphIneson. The movie originally debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Best Director award in the Drama category), and was released to wide audiences on February 19, 2016 by Creator/{{A24}}.
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''The Witch: A New-England Folktale'' (stylized as ''The [=VVitch=]'') is a ReligiousHorror historical drama film written and directed by Creator/RobertEggers in his feature directorial debut and starring Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy and Creator/RalphIneson. The movie originally debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Best Director award in the Drama category), and was released to wide audiences on February 19, 2016 by Creator/{{A24}}.
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* ForcefulKiss: [[spoiler:The witch]] gives a slow one to [[spoiler:Caleb]] when he comes across her domain and she appears as a beautiful young woman.
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* ForcefulKiss: [[spoiler:The witch]] The witch gives a slow one to [[spoiler:Caleb]] when he comes across her domain and she appears as a beautiful young woman.
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Compare with ''Film/AGhostStory'', another A24 film released the following year, which put a similarly introspective and minimalistic spin on a classic horror trope (ghosts instead of witches).
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Compare with ''Film/AGhostStory'', another A24 film released the following year, which put a similarly introspective and minimalistic spin on a classic horror trope (ghosts instead of witches).
witches), and ''Film/TheSudburyDevil'', another film about witchcraft in the 17th century which tries to be as historically accurate as possible.
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** At the end of the film, Thomasin comes upon a coven of witches who are chanting and gyrating around a fire while naked. They eventually rise into the air, and Thomasin, who disrobed before going into the woods, rises into the air with them.
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** At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Thomasin comes upon a coven of witches who are chanting and gyrating around a fire while naked. They eventually rise into the air, and Thomasin, who disrobed before going into the woods, rises into the air with them.]]
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* StarkNakedSorcery: After the witch kills the baby Samuel, she makes a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_ointment flying ointment]]" using his blood (and possibly other parts), smears it across her body and broomstick, and then flies into the sky.
** At the end of the film, Thomasin comes upon a coven of witches who are chanting and gyrating around a fire while naked. They eventually rise into the air, and Thomasin, who disrobed before going into the woods, rises into the air with them.
** At the end of the film, Thomasin comes upon a coven of witches who are chanting and gyrating around a fire while naked. They eventually rise into the air, and Thomasin, who disrobed before going into the woods, rises into the air with them.
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Thomasin behaves in a perfectly normal manner for a 17th century teenaged girl, it is only under extreme circumstances that she acts otherwise.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Thomasin would be just a regular girl in a more modern and developed setting, but certainly not in the 1600s Puritan New England.
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"a character dressing in a manner that just doesn't fit the cultural norm for the character's age" - in the 1600s, children of that age wore clothes like those of adults, just smaller
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* AgeInappropriateDress: Despite being younger, Mercy and Jonas wear more adult-looking clothes than Thomasin and Caleb. This, combined with the fact that they are ill-fitting (presumably to account for the twins's [[JustifiedTrope eventual growth]]), brings them into the UncannyValley as they look more like mischievous, deformed little adults than cheerful children.
