re: Just saw the Witch

People will drag me over the coals for what I just posted. I don't care.

If the director would've just shown a glimpse of a baby's hand, foot, or body part on the grinding stone, it would've been more effective and true horror.

If the director had shown a glimpse of two little charred bodies in the fire at the end, it would've been more effective and true horror.

If the director had made Black Phillip more supernatural, it would've been more effective.

If Black Phillip's seduction of the girl had been just a bit more graphic and lustful, more effective.

If the naked girl had noticed the twins in the fire and shrugged off the horror of that scene to embrace her new coven family, it would've been effective horror.

So many missed opportunities.

Let me tell you how people will respond to my post. This is what to expect from their responses:

1. This movie was a mental slow burn exercise meant to force your mind to fill in the gaps.

2. Not all horror movies must be graphic, gory, or gruesome (even though the OP claims this movie was in fact gruesome. LOL). Some of the best scary movies mess with your mind rather than relying on cheap gore.

3. Killz is just trolling or one sick frick because normal people would be very scared by this movie.

4. Killz should just kill himself already and quit shitting all over this board.

And, yet, I'm not saying the director should've made this movie extremely gory. I'm not saying that at all.

However, the director should've added just a few more details to ratchet up the horror element of this movie.

Instead what we got was an extreme slow burn movie that never pays off (with exception to one great line muttered by Black Phillip during the seduction).

I mean, the ONLY thing I enjoyed about the movie was the line, "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

I sat thru 2 hours of extreme boredom for one damn line.

frick that.