‘The Witch’: The Making of the Year’s Scariest Movie

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Director Robert Eggers and star Anya Taylor-Joy talk about the making of The Witch, spill secrets behind its scares, and explain the feminist power of witches. (Really)

Senior Editor, Obsessed

Published Feb. 21 2016 12:15AM EST

articles/2016/02/21/the-witch-the-making-of-the-year-s-scariest-movie/160220-fallon-witch-tease_bvpzhj — Sundance Film Festival

Black storm clouds have just crept across the Hudson, blanketing Manhattan in shadow. The rain is pouring down so hard it’s almost biblical, culminating in an ambience straight from a horror film.

How fitting, then, to be talking to Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy, the director and star of The Witch,...

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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‘The Witch’: The Making of the Year’s Scariest Movie

Director Robert Eggers and star Anya Taylor-Joy talk about the making of The Witch, spill secrets behind its scares, and explain the feminist power of witches. (Really)

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Kevin Fallon