Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson

The Witch is Deliciously Chilling

Robert Eggers' debut film redefined what horror could feel like, and it's almost yours to watch.

JUNE 8, 2026

There are horror films that scare you, and then there are horror films that get under your skin and quietly rearrange something. The Witch, Robert Eggers' 2015 debut, is the second kind. Set in 1630s New England, it follows a Puritan family cast out from their plantation and left to survive alone at the edge of a vast, dark forest. What happens to them is terrifying. What the film is actually about runs even deeper than that.

Eggers built this film from period-accurate dialogue, real folklore, and a commitment to atmosphere so total that it feels less like watching a story and less like being inside one. The dread starts in the first scene and never lets up. This is not a film that jumps at you. It is a film that leans in close and does not move.

The Witch arrives on Tubi soon. If you have been waiting for the right moment to see what all the conversation has been about, that moment is almost here.

“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”

Cast

Anya Taylor-Joy

Taylor-Joy plays Thomasin, the eldest daughter at the center of the family's unraveling. It was her first major film role, and she carries the entire weight of it. She finds something in Thomasin that is both deeply vulnerable and quietly ferocious, and you cannot look away from her.

Ralph Ineson

Ineson plays William, the patriarch whose faith and pride have brought his family to the edge of ruin. His voice alone does half the work. He plays conviction and collapse in equal measure, and makes William someone you understand completely even as you watch him fail the people he loves.

Kate Dickie

Dickie plays Katherine, the mother, and she brings a grief to the role that feels almost unbearable to witness. Her performance is raw in a way that is hard to prepare for. She is not a villain and not a victim. She is a woman losing everything and refusing to go quietly.

Harvey Scrimshaw

Scrimshaw plays Caleb, the eldest son, and has one scene in particular that has been talked about since the film first screened at Sundance. It is the kind of performance from a young actor that makes you stop and pay attention to everything else he does after.

Sneak Peek

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Why Watch It

The Witch is the film that announced Robert Eggers as one of the most distinctive directors working today. He has since made The Lighthouse and The Northman, both of which have their own devoted followings, but this is where it started. Watching it now, knowing what came after, only makes it more interesting. The obsessions are all already here: isolation, faith pushed to its breaking point, the natural world as something genuinely threatening.

This is a film for people who want horror to mean something. Not in a heavy-handed way, not with a message stapled on at the end, but in the way that the best genre films have always worked, by using fear to get at something true. The Witch is about what happens when belief becomes a cage, and what it costs to want something different for yourself. That is the thread running underneath every unsettling image in the film.

If you have never seen it, coming to Tubi is your chance to understand why it has held its reputation for a decade. If you have seen it before, you already know it rewards a second watch. Either way, add it to your list now.