
When Simon brings his twelve-year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make, she's getting stronger.... (Full plot summary below)
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When Simon brings his twelve-year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make, she's getting stronger.
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| Movies in FocusNiall BrowneAndy Mitton's The Witch In The Window is one of the most beautifully crafted horror films to hit screens in many years. Mitton's film is a perfectly precise piece of genre cinema, filled with wonderful character moments as well as skin-crawling scares. |
| Anatomy of a ScreamJoe LipsettThe Witch In The Window is a deliberately slow-paced, quietly sorrowful film about a man trying to reconnect with his family. By prioritizing character development, Mitton has crafted an emotionally rich film that...has the capacity to chill. |
| The LensAndrew WyattThe Witch in the Window never gels into anything substantial; if feels less like a full-fledged horror film than a muted, bargain-bin approximation of one. |
| The Hollywood NewsKat HughesThe Witch in the Window is a valiant stab at injecting new life into an old and familiar tale. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawStraightforward with a coda so telegraphed that it loses whatever emotional epiphany it was meant to deliver, The Witch in the Window is obvious, predictable, and stilted in its worst moments. |
| Citizen DameLauren Humphries-BrooksThe Witch in the Window is unlikely to become the next big sleeper hit, but then it doesn't aspire to be - it aspires to tell a good scary story. |
| User ReviewStephanie WI really liked this movie. The relationship between father and son was so realistic and compelling that the ghost almost takes a back seat, which in my opinion made it more realistic and thus scary. And the acting by Alex Draper (the father) was sooo good, why am I not seeing this guy in more stuff?? |
| User ReviewBen CA very different take and not what I expected. A great story that's not a typical horror or massively scary. More of a tale about life, love and separation. A great film just the right length and very heartwarming. Definitely worth watching. |
| User ReviewRichard DA father and son stay in a house in rural Vermont that he has bought and is renovating. At first he says he is trying to turn the house around and sell it for more, but it gradually becomes clear that he's hoping his son and estranged wife will move into it with him. He hears from his neighbor that the woman who used to live in the house was a witch, and they slowly become aware that she is still there. This sounds like a very familiar kind of horror film, but this film goes very different places with it. Almost all of the film takes place during broad daylight, so it does not use any of the typical "haunted house" mechanics. It has a couple of very scary sequences set in bright, sunny rooms. It's a slow burn that focuses more on the relationship between the father and son, which is extremely compellingly drawn, and creeps up on a conclusion that unites this theme with the haunting. A surprisingly great little flick. |
| User Reviewriviu rConjuring makes all horror movies look so bad if they don't use "jump scare" treatment? A fool if the standard horror movie must be like James Wan CONJURING! Please stop putting your brain very low if all horror movies must match or exceed what Conjuring has done. The Witch in the Window does not offer excessive jump scare, this film offers a refreshment called DRAMA HORROR! |