The Witch
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Sep 11, 2026
Chris WinterbauerHOST
But we've had some great witchcraft, screen craft witchcraft in recent years.
Chris WinterbauerHOST
Obviously, The VVitch, as you-
Lizzie BassettHOST
Mm-hmm.
Lizzie BassettHOST
Yes
Chris WinterbauerHOST
...
Chris WinterbauerHOST
the, The VVitch and Robert Eggers' update/throwback.
Chris WinterbauerHOST
And then most recently, Weapons was one of my favorite films of the last few years, which is a great witch entrant.
Lizzie BassettHOST
We're gonna talk about both of those witches-
EmmaHOST
I like other Robert Eggert movies.
EmmaHOST
I freaking love The Witch.
EmmaHOST
But I don't like that one.
EmmaHOST
I don't like that one.
PeterHOST
It's set supposedly in the 1890s.
PeterHOST
And then I also watched The Witch by Robert Eggers, which is set basically like in the 1620s.
PeterHOST
Like a family from Plymouth has decided that the Plymouth plantation is too liberal.
PeterHOST
And so they're going to move out into the country outside of Plymouth.
PeterHOST
And then things go wildly awry.
PeterHOST
And I would say the village, I thought, was in this sort of like historical – mind, I thought The Witch was just so rich in its look at history and its glimpse into what life might have been like.
PeterHOST
In some ways, literally might have been like for people at that time.
PeterHOST
That's something Robert Eggers is really good at, paying so much attention to getting the details right.
Obie KnoxHOST
'Cause when the lights go out, the room gets cold, and something starts materializing into the floor, that's the dude you want standing beside you with a crucifix in his pocket ready to pull a Simon Belmont.
Obie KnoxHOST
All right, folks, next time we'll continue our September season of The Witch.
Obie KnoxHOST
Because if there's one thing classic horror has taught us, it's that no matter how many people are horribly killed by black magic, there's always somebody waiting in the next movie thinking, yeah, but I bet I could pull it off.
Obie KnoxHOST
So until then, be careful what clubs you join, never accept occult paraphernalia from strangers, and if Christopher Lee tells you to stay inside the circle, stay inside the dang circle.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
There were two directors that pulled me, you know, kicking and screaming back in.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
And one are the Eggers brothers, Robert, and I forget what his brother's name is, but he did the movie The Witch, which we are about to go into the Halloween festive season.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
Everybody go watch The Witch.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
It's dark.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
So good.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
It is a period piece.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
It is colonial times.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
It is the witch burning era or the women burning era.
Matt HannahHOST
... that people are like, "You have to see."
HannahHOST
Well, I feel like people kind of c- said that this is Na Hong-jin's response to Robert Eggers' The Witch.
HannahHOST
This is just like-
Matt HannahHOST
Yeah
Trent GayHOST
I think that's maybe my favorite of quote unquote J-horror, which to me means ghost story, childhood trauma.
Trent GayHOST
These guys were elevated way before The Witch, all right? That era of spooky ghost stories and past trauma and a little bit of folk coming in there that started really popularly with Ringu, the original was 98.
Trent GayHOST
And then right on through, Joan and The Grudge.
Trent GayHOST
In my mind, those movies were all released in theaters in the States, but I had to be reminded going back that they were not.
The Cajun KnightHOST
It's just like...
speaker_6GUEST
i think breweries are fucking weird as shit but whatever do your own thing if you enjoy doing that it's not my thing but just do it in the corner over there you know what i mean this is whatever if you want to do that kind of stuff have you guys seen the witch the witch have you never seen it i'm surprised both of you that i feel like you guys it's an older film 2016, I think.
speaker_6GUEST
Maybe.
speaker_6GUEST
If you've never seen it, it's by Robert Eggers.
Raven LeeHOST
boring.
speaker_6GUEST
Yeah.
speaker_6GUEST
I like his cinematic style, but The Witch is probably by far one of the creepiest witch movies, and it's very realistic of the time period in the 1600s.
speaker_6GUEST
It's worth a watch.
Clelia McElroyHOST
But as Natalie and Brenda part, we follow Natalie going back to her room and bumping into the sullen-faced janitor played by Julian Richings, who is the actor from the opening scene in Cube, I found out.
Clelia McElroyHOST
And he's also in The Witch.
Clelia McElroyHOST
Is he? Yeah, he is.
Clelia McElroyHOST
He's one of the, I mean, he's not in it for very long, but at the start when they're having the trial and they're being kicked out of their communities.
MaggieHOST
So yeah, we do like to do that.
CamHOST
But we want to do a follow up about The Witch.
CamHOST
That was one of our favorite, most intimidating episodes when we did that Robert Eggers series back in the day.
CamHOST
But we have this kind of new idea and take and focus on that movie that we want to hit.
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