Its first public screening since walking away from Sundance with a best director award for its first-time director, The Witch treated its TIFF audience to a stunning exercise in tense, intimate horror. Robert Eggers, who directed and wrote the film, meticulously researched Puritan America and pulled ideas together from 17th-century court documents, diaries, and folktales, sometimes … Continue reading TIFF Review: Robert Eggers’ The Witch