The third trailer for the R-rated horror film The Witch finds a young girl playing peek-a-boo with a baby. The game turns sinister when the girl covers her eyes and then opens them to discover the baby has disappeared.
Robert Eggers wrote and directed The Witch, earning the Best Director award in the U.S. Narrative category at 2015’s Sundance Film Festival with his feature film directorial effort. A24 will be releasing Eggers’ horror film in theaters on February 19, 2016.
The Witch stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson.
The Plot:
New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest – within which lurks an unknown evil. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately – animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit.
With suspicion and paranoia mounting, family members accuse teenage daughter Thomasin of witchcraft, charges she adamantly denies. As circumstances grow more treacherous, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love become tested in shocking and unforgettable ways.
