A family moves to the country side and the kids start interacting with talking animals. What may sound like the premise of a Disney movie is in fact the basis for a story full of drama and horror in THE WITCH (now playing in theaters nationwide).

I sat down with the very talented writer-director Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy to talk about this dark fairy tale.

New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. ‘The Witch’ is a chilling portrait of a family unraveling within their own fears and anxieties, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil.