The Witch in the Window
When Simon brings his 12-year-old son to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they soon learn that the house is already occupied by the malicious spirit of a previous owner.
June 1, 1968 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
21 July 1966, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
August 30, 2018
Straightforward 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.July 24, 2018
Mitton's handling of the supernatural elements - casually introduced and incorporated into the edges of domestic experience - proves extremely unsettling, even as everything shifts towards a hard-earned poignancy that is both haunting and sublime.August 23, 2018
The Witch in the Window is a valiant stab at injecting new life into an old and familiar tale.October 06, 2018
The 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.September 02, 2018
The 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.August 07, 2018
Mitton's film never goes where you expect, while deploying its horror tropes to show the cracks and fissures in contemporary America's nuclear family structure. Its ending, so poignantly bittersweet, is very hard-earned...October 20, 2018
Andy 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.