The Witch was one of the most talked-about movies of 2015, burning up the Sundance Film Festival and landing near the top of a lot of critics’ best-of-the-year lists. A dark, harrowing fairytale, The Witch examines what life would have been like for religious, superstitious Puritans in the 17th century if faced with a supernatural threat. Placed in a world where magic and witchcraft are undeniably real and no authority exists to which you can appeal for protection, in which a witch (say that three times fast…) would have been as real a threat to life and limb as a rabid wolf or a wielded knife, the audience is forced to confront their own ideas of what evil and terror might actually mean.