The Witch is a very bizarre, very fucked up story of a woman who may or may not have psychic powers and also may or may not be going insane. This movie walks the line between fantasy and reality very well, and very often. It's also one of those movies where despite the clear resolution in the end, it's still unclear exactly which scenes were reality and which were imagined.
In the beginning of Witch, we see the main woman, Molly, at the beach with her two nephews, Tadd and Tripoli. As she watches some hunky guys down the beach, we slowly see them die, seemingly caused by Molly's intense stare. This is chief among the scenes I don't know if were real or not.
The movie slows down from there and we follow Molly as she goes about her life. She works at a local bar and restaurant, she spends a lot of time with her sister Cathy, and Cathy's sons Tadd and Tripoli. Why the two boys are named Tadd and Tripoli is never explained. The questions we really wanted answered in this film simply never are.
One night while watching football, she sees and is attracted to two of the star football players. Next we know, she has found these two in real life. She seduces them, takes them to her room, and begins to tie them up to the bed with promises of kinky sex. Molly does have a lot of nudity, so be prepared for pretty small but perky tits that you can glue your eyes to in many scenes. Anyhow, she ties up the guys, and to their dismay puts her clothes back on. Molly then produces a razor, and begins cutting.
This movie did a great job of walking the fantasy and reality line very well. There is eventually some explanations, but they never do explain everything. It's said that Molly was a victim of childhood sexual abuse by her obese fisherman father. Her sister Cathy possibly was too, but that's never said. The two footballers presumably remind her of her father? I don't remember that being part or not.
There's also a bizarre mermaid and ocean motif in the film that's never explained. Molly gets a weird mermaid tattoo midway through the film, just after the two killings. You know, I'll say it now: This movie was very weird but really good. It was enjoyable, and I honestly could keep talking about small plot points for forever it seems. The Witch did have an amateur feeling to it, sure, but the acting and the strangeness of the story more than made up for it.
This qualifies more as a video nasty than Don't Go in The Woods (click on the link "nasties" in the first sentence). It's got tons of nudity, it's got blood, and it has themes of rape, incest, and child molestation. Yet, it feels curiously subtle, and like all the bad shit that happens in the movie is reasonable. For that, and for the awesome feel of the film in general, I'll give it 4 stars.
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