{"id":3909,"date":"2016-05-12T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2023-03-25T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T13:56:26","slug":"movienight-special-presentation-friday-may-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"The Witch. A feel-goat experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/witch.jpg\" alt=\"witch\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/witch.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/witch-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Robert Eggers&#8217; gorgeously creepy <em>The Witch<\/em> earned the distinction of being the first MovieNight feature to be &#8220;previewed&#8221; in a special Friday night presentation, the week before its &#8220;official&#8221; Thursday night screening. I still feel that it is somewhat misleading to call <em>The Witch<\/em> a horror movie, although I do understand the reasoning for doing so. To me it is more of an occult mystery drama. There are no sudden frights&#8230; you know that bad things are going to happen, and when they do, they are deeply disturbing. The casting was excellent, and the attention to period detail was acute&#8230; little wonder, since until this directorial debut, Mr. Eggers has been credited in other films as art director and costume designer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh&#8230; and my favorite line in the movie? Satan&#8217;s words, voiced by Black Phillip, the goat, &#8220;Remove thy shift.&#8221; Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4263482\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter cadbzengsbezmygwrwii cwnrlaugicmavbrryrlb omccpaycogunqbufrobb wtjuclruxqusvdimijbh dvrxkwbgaazeyxdedyib jmyguopgrrlcxkxhygif upbnqoyhmbntrkitpcbb ayatndoxczsgniinchac webctghasvclkkoqyzdg jzqaqrtdmqhwalpfzwwy zpkcqxpnfqyyjvayejxv igcaewbnhypcmzhpibvb huxouhdeqklalzruwvat wlirusqdnzvagfcbyxar\" src=\"http:\/\/counter.dreamhost.com\/cgi-bin\/Count.cgi?df=fauxlimey-movienights.dat&amp;st=1952&amp;pad=F&amp;ft=0&amp;dd=D&amp;istrip=T\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Eggers&#8217; gorgeously creepy The Witch earned the distinction of being the first MovieNight feature to be &#8220;previewed&#8221; in a special Friday night presentation, the week before its &#8220;official&#8221; Thursday night screening. I still feel that it is somewhat misleading to call The Witch a horror movie, although I do understand the reasoning for doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Witch. A feel-goat experience.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}