{"id":381851,"date":"2026-10-23T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=381851"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:52:01","slug":"anya-taylor-joy-broke-out-in-the-witch-before-furiosa-and-the-queens-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/anya-taylor-joy-broke-out-in-the-witch-before-furiosa-and-the-queens-gambit\/","title":{"rendered":"Anya Taylor-Joy broke out in The Witch: before Furiosa and The Queen\u2019s Gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2015, Robert Eggers released The Witch<\/strong>, a horror film set in 1630s New England. It was Anya Taylor-Joy\u2019s breakout role, before Split, The Queen\u2019s Gambit, The Menu, and Furiosa turned her into a star.<\/p>\n

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The Witch centers on a Puritan family coming apart after their infant son vanishes. Crops fail. Food runs short<\/strong>. Fear and paranoia settle over the house. Thomasin, the oldest daughter and the one watching the baby when he disappears, becomes the obvious target: her mother\u2019s suspicion hardens, her younger siblings spin tales of witchcraft, and her father\u2019s authority starts to give way under the strain. The movie doesn\u2019t hand you the usual final girl who survives the evil and puts everything back in place. It drives Thomasin somewhere darker, stranger, and oddly freeing. Taylor-Joy plays her with fear, restraint, and a quiet streak of defiance, and that balance makes Thomasin feel painfully human even as her own home turns into a kind of cage.<\/p>\n\n

The Witch mattered for reasons that go past Taylor-Joy\u2019s career, too. It helped cement A24\u2019s standing<\/strong> in horror. It gave people their first real look at Eggers\u2019 exacting style. It also fed the folk-horror wave that ran through the 2010s. And then there\u2019s Black Phillip, along with the film\u2019s oppressive sound design, its use of natural light, and all that 17th-century detail, which is exactly what some viewers love and exactly what others still find slow or archaic.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re after one of the bleakest<\/strong> horror movies of the last decade, The Witch is an easy pick. You can stream it where it\u2019s available, but that changes by region and by date, so check your local listings first.<\/p>\n

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In 2015, Robert Eggers released The Witch, a horror film set in 1630s New England. It was Anya Taylor-Joy\u2019s breakout role, before Split, The Queen\u2019s Gambit, The Menu, and Furiosa turned her into a star. The Witch centers on a Puritan family coming apart after their infant son vanishes. Crops fail. Food runs short. Fear … Continue reading “Anya Taylor-Joy broke out in The Witch: before Furiosa and The Queen\u2019s Gambit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":381850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-381851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t