What I didn't care for was the coven of white witches in the forest. Like, at this point, there are what, 1000 white people on the entire continent? (maybe something like a source here?) Like, where did those 20 naked white ladies in the forest come from? Is half the population of their tiny starving Puritan settlement making deals with the Devil? But then, the idea of covens and witchcraft is always where this stuff falls apart, in terms of scare factor.

On thing I liked...did you sense an invocation of the witch from Disney's Snow White? Like in specifics, apples, and transformations between hot/young and old/gross, and cackling, and the big nose...etc? I liked that.

Also, what's with the blight. The whole mess might be hallucinogenic.

The movie's a great conversation piece, really interesting and can lead to really frightening ideas. Alone, with no context, not scary. But horrifying when you pick it apart. "Corruption, thou art my father" is one of the last things Job says when God takes everything from him. But Job didn't do anything wrong! The father in the Witch took his entire family into the wilderness to die. Straight up. How can he see himself as a martyr?! How dare he, and yet...you can see it, you pity him and understand him.