In Colonial America, a family is excommunicated from the local village and has to build an isolated farm out in the woods. But there is an evil prescence in the woods that torments them, turning them on one another and testing this Christian family's faith in God.
One of my favorite things about this film is how accurately they tried to portray it. It was made using written legends and folklore of the early 1600s, so everything about this film is as accurate to the time period (1630) as possible, right down to the dialogue and dialect. Even the title is spelled with two "v" letters, as Colonial Americans didn't yet have a "w" letter.
This isn't a traditional horror film. You spend most of the film engaged in the lives of these people and how they deal with the unknown, with very little actual horror going on. You're on the edge of your seat, waiting for the next unexpected surprise to hit, but not sure when or if you'll see something confirming the evil the family suspects. So if you're looking for a slasher/survival film, this is not the film for you. However, if you're interested to see a period film that tells folklore of witches roughly 60 years prior to the Salem Witch Trials, then like me, you might really enjoy this.
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