Black Phillip was the surprise breakout star of 2015 horror striking The Witch , but who or what is he? The Witch is ready in 1630s New England and follows a family of Puritan settlers who are banished from their colony over a dispute. They prepare a abode deep in the woods, but it soon becomes clear an evil presence lurks in the woods and information technology starts to torment them. The family unit matriarch also begins to suspect her oldest daughter Thomasin is a witch in disguise.

A24's The Witch stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Glass) and Ralph Ineson and is a disturbing, psychological horror film. The family is slowly driven insane over the course of the story and despite their devotion to God, they shortly begin to feel their savior has forsaken them. The movie makes information technology clear from an early on point that the witch actually does exist, but it's revealed at the end of the movie that she's not the main threat.

The Witch's principal antagonist is actually the family unit'south distinctive horned goat Black Phillip, who is revealed to be Satan in disguise. With her unabridged family expressionless, Thomasin decides to embrace the witch label forced upon her and speaks with Blackness Phillip. The goat transforms into the Devil'southward truthful course and asks if she would similar to "live deliciously," subsequently growing upwardly in a life of hardship, then she signs her proper name in a book and is led by Black Phillip to join a coven of witches. The movie ends with Thomasin and the witches levitating in the air.

The reveal Black Phillip was the corrupting force of The Witch the whole time reframes the story, particularly when he gores William (Ineson) with his horns towards the end. The movie is covered in a thick layer of dread and paranoia, merely the question of how much of information technology is supernatural or how much is just madness is always in question. The twist that Blackness Phillip was always there observing and seeding distrust and fear in the family adds another element to the story on later viewings.

There's no explanation for why Satan decided to target this detail family unit, merely it's easy to come across the potential. Despite their devotion to God, their isolation following their banishing combined with the secret guilt or sin - but it pride, animalism or shame - almost every member of the family unit harbors, must have proven tempting for the Devil to personally torment them. While Thomasin abandoning her organized religion and selling her soul should be seen every bit a dour catastrophe, The Witch itself seems to frame information technology as a happy one, with the teenager looking happy for the first time every bit she flies to a higher place the trees. This appears to be because, for maybe the get-go time in her life, her prayers were actually answered.

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