On this Prime Cuts mini-episode, the Chopping It Up crew dives beak-first into Robert Eggers’s 2015 Puritan-nightmare masterpiece, The VVitch. The team revisits the bleak New England homestead, unpacking the film’s slow-burn tension, its suffocating dread, and the brutal unraveling of a family exiled for being too devout for the Puritans themselves.

From baby-paste broomstick lore and “wet” witchcraft sequences to Calvinist paranoia, apple-laden symbolism, and that infamous goat with a taste for evil bargains, the episode explores how Eggers builds terror through atmosphere, sound, and historical detail. The hosts reflect on how the film weaponizes isolation, faith, and patriarchal control—and whether Thomasin’s final choice is a tragedy, liberation, or both.

With comparisons to The Shining, discussions of folklore accuracy, and the crew’s typical blend of humor and horror-nerdery, this Prime Cuts installment celebrates The VVitch as a near-flawless piece of folk horror that only gets richer on rewatch.