The Witch: You are Not So Rational

[@freedo333]

In 1983, my mom took me to see a psychiatrist because i played dungeons and dragons & i listened to heavy metal music. I was a 14 year old boy. The psychiatrist asked me what was my character's alignment. I told him chaotic good. He told my mom i was a normal kid with an imagination. The satanic panic was ridiculous but real! 😄

[@themorbidzoo]

Ugh thank god you had a decent psychiatrist, going to a shrink was really rolling the dice in those days lol

[@freedo333]

@@themorbidzoo he even told my mom if he were a kid, he'd probably be playing d&d too :)

[@dirtydan9785]

​@@themorbidzooHehe, rolling the dice.. I see what you did there

[@littlebitaver]

Sounds like a real life Eddie Munson situation.

[@ScarFeiss]

🧢

[@magsp5496]

there's a quote from catherine lacey - “if you’re raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. you will find him even when he is not there. and if one day you find that there is no angry man in your house- well, you will go find one and invite him in!” witches as a concept are exactly like that. people think they need an angry man, that it's an essential part of life. in the same way, people think they need a witch.

[@chelsmac3179]

Ooof, that quote hit me hard

[@wilder11]

You know I've heard that sentiment before, but that quote really ties it down in a whole new way for me. Thanks for that.

[@monkeymal]

epic comment

[@wesleyprince3465]

Tbf I need a witch😭 Modern "witches" are just goth hippies and I need more of them in my life❤️😭

[@retard6665]

Aw fuck that's me

[@richardb8157]

"Less a being than an idea, poised to ruin your world, as soon as you give it life through your own belief" I feel like you've just disclosed the deeper machinations of most all conundrums humanity has ever faced.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks, it's witches all the way down, I think :)

[@StLProgressive]

It’s a great observation, for sure. I was very impressed.

[@Lopfff]

Disclosing machinations and conundrums is SOOOOO mainstream

[@INTERNERT]

seems like becoming a witch yourself is the best option

[@purpledragon1945]

Isn't this the Buddhist belief that if enough people believe something, it becomes real

[@AviKats66]

I think it’s also very comforting to believe that all the most horrific things people do are caused by some other, “evil” power, rather than face the reality that perfectly normal people can and do commit terrible acts.

[@theboombody]

The Bible MOSTLY blames Israel for its sin, not the devil.

[@TaylorWilmes]

@@theboombodyno it doesn’t. Have you actually ever read it?

[@TaylorWilmes]

People can be evil. People in positions of power can be evil too. How else would you describe it? Good and evil are part of objective reality.

[@theboombody]

@@TaylorWilmes The Bible does not mention the devil all that often. It mentions Israel and its sins constantly throughout the Old Testament. Read through Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and the other large OT prophet books and tell me who is being yelled at more, the devil, or Israel...

[@jeftecoutinho]

​​@@TaylorWilmes Apparently you are the one who haven't read. It does, and Israel pays for it all the time.

[@Ipsolus]

I never knew my aunt too well, but she'd come down with cancer when i was little. She was laid up in a hospital to try and alleviate the pain, but had opted to simply let it take her. Losing her hair and her mind, the family gathered about her bed trying to pray it away as she laughed at the "tiny people dancing on her pillow". They'd thought the devil had gripped her, as she was the spiritual sort. I remember her taking my hand and telling me that she wanted me to have her cards. She handed me her tarot deck. Rather worn, she clearly used them often. But i barely held them 10 sec before they were pulled out of my hands, tossed into the bin. "Dont ever touch those things," dad said, "its the devil trying to turn you away". And so they continued with the hymns as she remained off in her own little world. The last gift from my aunt, just. Thrown away.

[@Ishbikes]

You shouldn’t be messing with tarot cards, unless you’re ready for what comes with it.

[@Ipsolus]

@Ishdrip They're literally just a modified deck of playing cards and the oracular quality ascribed to them is just humorous. It's just a more "I'm so deeply spiritual" magic 8 ball where at least with an 8 ball, it gives more direct answers. Completely randomized answers, but still. Don't give powers to dumb things that don't have powers, and then they're meaningless. That's what my mindset was as a Christian. If you think God loves you then you literally have nothing to fear from some tiny pictures.

[@cocolahoff4292]

@@Ishbikesready for what comes with it? What, you mean the price tag?

[@johntodd6413]

I would buy a new set, maybe see if you can find a playing card version and try to play with them whenever you can as a way to remember your Aunt 🙂 you can't carry her gift but you can always remember it

[@Ipsolus]

@johntodd6413 I have bought a traditional Ryder-Waite(?) If that's how it's spelled, deck. I've even played with them a little. I use them much like how I keep my dream journal; I don't hold them to be able to tell future, so much as a psychological mirror into my mindset. Like I'll pull The Devil, which means either someone I know is deceiving me or I'm deceiving myself. And I'll just use that to think on my loved ones & myself, assess my relationships & the one I have with myself. But I'm not like "i knew it, Josh is gonna screw me over!" 😂

[@ElevatorEleven]

"All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman, what else is woman but a foe to friendship, an unescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural etcetcetc.." Ooohhh! You got dumped, didn'tya?

[@theoscout9205]

No wonder he got dumped ngl

[@Mae_Dastardly]

Ye olde andrew tate

[@Passions5555]

​@@Mae_DastardlyAndrew Tate was the standard back then. People shaking their head at this type of vitriol is very recent unfortunately.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

@@Passions5555 Truth Of course it says something that the kind of people that so called redpillers seek to emulate didnt know how to wash their ass and died of dysentery in their 30s tho

[@joeiechristiansantana9641]

@@Passions5555 Are you saying... There's Proto Tates? Pro-tates? (Damn it, flubbed the joke.)

[@QuillC]

The fear is real for a lot of people, even in our modern age. When I was in my early teens, I was diagnosed with clinical depression, though my father, who was at the time a licensed therapist, and had been my entire life, rejected the diagnosis outright, stating confidently that if I was *actually* depressed, he would've noticed. When my symptoms became too much for even him to ignore, this same man, later sat me down and very gravely, very genuinely, asked me if I was possessed by a demon, and that if I was, I needed to tell him, and he could 'get me help'. It was so surreal, and direct, I was in disbelief, and remember uncomfortably laughing and responding something like 'oh yeah, demon possession, that's totally the problem' (besides just how wild the accusation was on its face, it was even wilder taking into account that, at the time, I was an extremely active churchgoer, attending a service or church group at least 3 times a week, often more, so not the most likely candidate for possession... Though with lack of evidence being cited as compelling evidence, well.) - I'd never seen him look as concerned in my whole life, as he got when I said that, and he responded in a hushed tone that this was deadly serious, and if I was under the influence of a demon, I must tell him right now. When you live with that mindset, that anyone you know (including yourself) could very well be living as a puppet of a supernatural force of objective evil, and that this fate could befall anyone, at any time, without discernable cause, without evidence... That can help people justify a lot of irrational actions. Like you said, even a lack of evidence can be evidence.

[@360.Tapestry]

in order to protect his ego from his own perceived shortcomings, he'd rather turn to supernatural causes. funny enough, that he feared it was a reflection of his ability made it a reflection of his own insecurity

[@LordVader1094]

Sometimes knowledge leads someone to give themselves a license to ignorance.

[@phoenixclown1301]

jesus christ this must've been traumatic and scary, to have your own parent say that to you, to suspect you of harboring a supernatural evil and be dead serious about it. just because he couldn't come to terms with you having something as common and regular like depression. can't imagine how abandoned you must've felt in that moment when your dad rejected all rationality in favor of maintaining his pride. like, what a way to shatter any trust in the person who's supposed to be protecting you

[@tvav69]

I’m so sorry that happened to you.

[@chewy99.]

The only time demonic possession should ever be suspected is if physically impossible stuff is happening. That’s basically how the church tells it.

[@skywalkerchick]

My mom walked in on me watching this movie one time, and she said she couldn’t understand why I loved it because she thought it was all so silly. And I think that was because she was taking the movie literally, whereas I don’t think I ever took the movie at face value of “witches preying on a righteous god fearing family.” Mostly, I’ve thought of the film as being an allegory of the monster, in this case a witch, being a product of the very society that fears her. Thomasin becomes a witch because no one gives her the chance to be anything else.

[@artorhen]

I saw it as the family being the real monsters, due to seeing themselves as righteous and hiding their dark side, while the witches were people who didn't hide the truth of their nature.

[@dessertstorm7476]

Silly compared to what though? Marvel movies? Transformers? What does she expect you to watch that is less silly?

[@riplix20]

@@dessertstorm7476those movies are a bit new lol..

[@skywalkerchick]

@@dessertstorm7476she’s one of those people who thinks of horror as being low brow entertainment. Her idea of a “less silly” movie is usually historical/period pieces, movies based on classic literature, and courtroom dramas, i.e. The Three Musketeers, Amadeus, Pride and Prejudice, The Other Boleyn Girl, A Few Good Men, etc. There are exceptions of course, but she’s reluctant to try any horror movies I recommend.

[@impishlyit9780]

@@dessertstorm7476 Probably cheesy romance stuff, if I had to guess, but from the right viewpoint everything is silly. Even the daily activities of people trying to survive can be viewed as silly with the right (or wrong) worldview.

[@peteshushu1588]

It's hard to find channels that actually have original analysis instead of just reciting the events of a movie. You do a really great job!

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you 😊

[@TomFlanagan-hd3iv]

Currently doing a PhD in Early Medieval Religion and Identity, and I constantly try to make the exact point you make in this video. Really well done.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks! Blessings to your research 😊

[@lutherwilcox2249]

If you are making the same point in your phd as she does in this video you should have switched majors a long time ago cause you know nothing about history buddy. This entire video regards at the earliest the late Middle Ages but primarily the enlightenment period. Also her entire video is devoid of any real historical understanding. Do your best to be a real historian don’t just fall for the political dogma which tells you to hate everything that happened before 1960

[@lilovs9952]

@@lutherwilcox2249 you’re a religious person and you’re trying to warn someone of harmful dogmas? Are you lost?

[@DarkMark-cf1ec]

Im not a religious person at all or anything. But christianity did have some upsides, like execution of cults (actual cults) where children, animals and objects were eaten or diddled (not just false confessions, the world was very fucked up back then). Within around 100 years they had 3k executions of these people

[@HolyApplebutter]

​@@lutherwilcox2249If all you got from this video is "hate everything that happened before the 1960's" then you reeeaaally gotta' work on your media literacy.

[@humanist.vampyre]

Unfortunately, the effects of the panic in the 80s are still felt today. I remember my mom got influenced by my devout Christian aunt that Halloween is evil so she told me and my sister to stop trick or treating. My aunt also told my cousin that The Legend of Zelda is “demonic” because of the cover art for Majora’s Mask and Twilight Princess. My whole mom’s side of the family also hates rock/metal music as well :/

[@nickklavdianos5136]

Typical please who support the satanic panic -Hate fantasy books, games and videogames -Hate Rock/Heavy Metal It's like these are the top two triggers for them. And it's very funny because the books that really popularised fantasy, the Lord of the Rings series, were written by a pretty devout man and have religious undertones.

[@humanist.vampyre]

@@nickklavdianos5136 Exactly, and also I heard that originally, The legend of Zelda series was supposed to implement Christianity as its main in-game religion before they switched to using the fictional religion of hylia and the three golden goddesses. It's also a bit funny since there's even concept art of Link from A Link to the Past kneeling in a church in front of a crucifix.

[@tvav69]

@@nickklavdianos5136And those are some of the best reasons to be alive if you ask me!

[@SILVATION]

The 🎃 Halloween sh*t is REAL. For the Uneducated then yes, it may seem silly and foolish to think of Halloween as something Wicked/Satanic/Evil, rather than just Trick or Treating for the kids. But for those who have actually done their due diligence and study the true nature and history of Halloween and it's Origin, will be absolutely Shocked and in disbelief of how WICKED, SATANIC and Truly Evil it really is. Yeah I know, it's for kids, dressing up and having fun, . . . yeah 😒 sure.

[@chrissavage1449]

Me too, man. My dad's side of the family contain the only blood relatives I have who are remotely functional.

[@BaldPerspective]

That clip of the guy explaining Satan stuff & then basically saying, "Oh yeah, gays too," with the most mediocre-ugly mullet ever gave me Vietnam flashbacks of the '80s, & I wasn't even conceived yet lmao.

[@themorbidzoo]

😂

[@BaldPerspective]

@@themorbidzoo Your vid on this movie was very good & the one comparing both The Things was excellent, btw. There's been a really big uptick in Movie Tuber shenanigans recently, from my perspective anyway, but it's mostly seemed like quantity over quality. Those two vids were some of the best movie video essays I've seen at least 3 years, plus some stuff from So Uncivilized (if you're aware of that channel). I look forward to stuff you do in the future. Got any ideas in the pipeline you wouldn't mind giving me a teaser(s) for?

[@themorbidzoo]

@@BaldPerspective oh man, thanks! It’s definitely a saturated market, so that’s really nice to hear. I have not heard of them, I’ll check them out! As for the future, I’ve got an elden ring vid dropping hopefully next week, babadook is coming up, and I’m thinking a series on lord of the rings? Stuff is definitely happening 😊

[@BaldPerspective]

@@themorbidzoo Awesome! That def sounds interesting to me. I loved most of The Babadook, but found the ending kinda perplexing. So Uncivilized is currently a Star Wars channel, if you're into that. But, he said in his last video that he's taking a break from Star Wars to make vids on other interests before having a super cryptic tease of his next vid at the end. I've been waiting with bated breath lol.

[@BrrnyrAnonmaus]

The haircuts have changed but the scapegoating and slander involved with "save the children" moral panics remain...

[@texasbuffalo210]

"I've seen so much horror, I'm basically a former shell of myself." Laughs then awkwardly realizes me too....

[@themorbidzoo]

RIP our psyches

[@willku9000]

Lol honestly same XD

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

I don't have a "personality" for the beginning. Who said that I should?

[@jerkfacefuckasaurusrex328]

You'll be ok eventually. Age takes care of most things. Hope it takes care of you too.

[@Melody_Raventress]

Yeah, I'm honestly a little scared of how desensitized to some things I've become.

[@StLProgressive]

Excellent video. I was in high school when the McMartin cases finally went to trial. The satanic panic was ongoing throughout the entire decade. I was a goth, into The Cure, all the 80’s alternative/college music, dressed in black as much as I could, lol. My mom was too smart to buy into that BS, but others absolutely did. It was flipping scary. I hung out with the metal head crowd too. They got the brunt of it.

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

Bruh, I respect you so much! I was born in 2002 in a South American country. Had I been born in the US or England or whatever during those times, I would've totally been into those spaces.

[@Mart00091]

@@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δbirth year twins. Im just glad society now sees through this sort of thing, although not entirely but a lot of us for the most part

[@BenBoyee]

other fun fact. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year, and Oxford University is older than the Mayan Empire

[@hgriff14]

the mayan empire started in 250 bc and oxford was established in the 1000s ad. wtf are you talking about?

[@BenBoyee]

@hgriff14 Wrong information: Oxford is older than the AZTEC Empire. Oxford was founded in 1056 A.D. while the Aztec empire formed in 1345. Sorry for the confusion, got my eras mixed up.

[@hgriff14]

@@BenBoyeeyoure fine, i just got confused 😂

[@deathmetalpotato]

@@BenBoyeeFun fact, you’re exactly what’s wrong with social media and why people should stay out of the comments. Spreading false information all over the place.

[@BenBoyee]

@deathmetalpotato I corrected myself about the Mayan empire fact. I got my facts mixed up, it's the Aztec empire that's younger than Oxford

[@motorcitymangababe]

To me it never felt like "nothing happens" in the witch, like yes sure on paper- but the point is that if theres rot already present nothing has to happen. In fact the long stretch of tension that isolation brings is more than enough to do the job. Which, is horrifying.

[@Thagomizer]

Those people who found The VVitch boring probably want jump scares.

[@jaywysard]

I thought it was a great movie. What I think people are missing, including this reviewer (though I think the video was very thought-provoking and well made), was the film maker's motivations for making the film. Eggers really just wanted to make a "witchy" movie from the point of view of a 15th/16th century person and to tell the story in a way that would be typical of its time. Strange things happen: crops fail; animals are born with defects; accidents; bad weather; children disappear; people become "possessed." These things are all attributed to some unseen person or group in the shadows doing black magic. That's the spookiness of it. Though it makes some indirect comments about human nature, the movie is supposedly to be like a myth or a fairytale and isn't supposed to be viewed through a modern lens. It's supposed to be "old."

[@FoxMoon89]

My problem is that film doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. The film is clear from the start that the witch is real, but the middle portion has this religious paranoia feel that doesn't jibe with the beginning or the end. So it feels like a random series of supernatural events interspaced by interactions among a family consisting almost entirely of dreadfully unlikable people. And that's another sin in my book - most of the family is so deeply unlikable and lacking in redeeming qualities that you just don't care what happens to them. They feel flat stereotypes instead of real people. Thomasin gets a little bit of depth, but her character journey is so understated that the ending feels more played-for-creep-factor than thought-out conclusion.

[@kylegonewild]

@@FoxMoon89 Is it clear the witch is real though? Accusations of witchcraft and witness of supernatural phenomenon are by nature unreliable narration. Just because you see something on the screen doesn't make it real in the context of the story being told. That aside, if you assume it is all real that's the horror half of the equation; despite knowing their circumstances and despite being devout they are powerless to fend off the external force and so turn inward in fear and confusion. If the witches are real then surely God must be real so why has he forsaken us? What have we done to earn his scorn such that our prayers fall on deaf ears? *We* must have done something wrong. Why do you need to like them care what happens to the whole family on an individual, per character basis? The film isn't meant to make you comfortable. It's discomfort and tension on purpose. Lots of people and indeed lots of families are just unlikeable people, but this is also in the context of a deeply religious family, with all the psychological implications that carries, shunned and isolated from their own community. I would still care on a fundamental human level if a family of otherwise unlikeable people were brutally mauled to death in the wilderness.

[@fl4avv721]

​​@@FoxMoon89why do you have to care or find the characters likeable to enjoy a movie like this, is not a sitcom

[@Whosaskin]

I think as a genre a better name would be "Still Life Horror" because while indeed nothing really happens, it allows for your worst fears and anxieties to spawn and intensify. You plant the idea yourself and thus it becomes truly terrifying.

[@FoxMoon89]

I don't really get this take in the case of 2015's The VVitch. The witch is revealed to be real from the start, so the periods between spooky events just feel like a waiting game in which we're reminded how deeply unlikable most the family is. Where is the dread if most of the family is so unlikable that I don't care what happens to them?

[@GreenGhost93]

The whole mythology of witches as monsters reminded me of a part of a line from Darkest Dungeon where it describes a vampire hunter that hunts people infected with Crimson Curse and those who aren't: "Madness can take many forms, but none so contemptible as man's belief in a mythology of his own making. A world view buttressed by dogmatic desperation invariably leads to single-minded fanaticism, and a need to do terrible things in the name of righteousness" Humanity has always created it's own demons, monsters and horrors to put the blame on something we couldn't understand, in many many forms Also, you earned a subscribe!

[@elgatochurro]

Yes I think it's done to remove the blame from humanity, from humans, it may have started from protecting people you cared about and didn't want them to face the punishment they would have had. Maybe a holy man or noble started it... They'd have the power and influence to not be punished for forcing these beliefs onto others. Witches are drowned, if they survive they're a witch and killed. If they're not a witch, well they're no longer a threat. This was recent. People need to remember that. And we repeat this behavior today on groups we don't like. When the standard method is death regardless, I can see plenty of reason I've might be desperate enough to blame someone else, oh but they might be harmed instead... So something else... Some evil spirit out there...

[@butcherbird4195]

Well said

[@rko2016]

"damn vermin"

[@impishlyit9780]

Darkest Dungeon actually has an insane number of insightful statements. That game has *really* good writing!

[@andromeda4370]

“The witch will always find you” such a realistically chilling mic drop statement

[@Intellechawwal]

The audio work here is absolutely brilliant. Love it.

[@themorbidzoo]

Oh man, thanks!!

[@johntrentis_my_hero6667]

Dawn of the dead music was fitting

[@dinkalicious]

I was in high school when the “Satanic Panic” was in full swing; it was surreal then and I’m not sure we learned a damn thing from it nearly 40 years later… Excellent video!

[@themorbidzoo]

I'm not sure it's a lesson we're capable of learning 😬 Thanks so much!!

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@themorbidzoo Oh, well human beings are such as are, we have flat earthers, anti-vaxers, and people that believe in most bizarre and morbid things, but I don't think most of those cases if not all of those would pass the European justice system, some systems are made in such way that such can not be found guilty, no matter that it brings other problems, like liberating obvious murderers because no matter that all know they killed, and everything points to them, most systems will not accept pieces of evidence that are not direct. In any case, your videos are excellent, all that I have seen so far are very well made, and very well thought out...

[@scionofdorn9101]

Same, about the only thing I can say has changed is that rock music and D&D are mainstream now, but humans still find stupid religious reasons to persecute each other. I'm quite happy to be an atheist. Well, that and perms and Spandex pretty much went out of style. Pazder was a fraud that was revealed to have been having an affair with Smith, and the both divorced their spouses and married each other.

[@FTZPLTC]

I think the most despicable thing about it was the willingness of people to exploit the irrational or mentally ill or traumatised in order to push a fearmongering agenda. I don't think it's coincidence that we're seeing similar accusations now, albeit with slightly fewer supernatural trappings. The video shows how happy the media in the 1980s were to link the threat of occultism to homosexuality - and the desperate search for proof that LGBTQs are in your schools trying to ruin your children's minds is rampant, and coming from much the same people (and in some cases *exactly* the same people). These are often religious people, trying to maintain religion's foothold in society, and believing that the best way to do that is to encourage fear of its absence or opposition. I don't want to sound too cocky - the UK had its own brief brush with Satanic Panic - but it does seem like, the more secular a society, the less likely it is that someone screaming "Witch!" will be taken seriously. And I am very confident that most of those who are happy to platform and amplify those irrational voices are not believers themselves. I think they're far more cynical than we often give them credit for.

[@efxnews4776]

@@scionofdorn9101 happy to be an atheist... you know, that usually, atheist ALSO have a religious mentality... especially the ones who are "happy" like as if atheism was a cure for a disease... It isn't... latest studies show that people have a propensity be religious, and can you doubt? With 90% of mankind believing in something beyond themselves? As Nitzche once said, "God is dead... and we couldn't ever wash away the blood of our hands." this is what atheism is... the blood stains of a murder... you can't ever never wash away.

[@keydemographics]

your stuff really deserves much more attention. this whips.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you!!

[@TheTuttle99]

For real

[@Mondomeyer]

Like Devo!

[@valuedCustomer2929]

Its enjoyable. The typical lftwng revisonst history of the West. Also the typcal satnic panc disinfo. There was defintly real stuff going on that was glossed over. Look up JohnDeCamp

[@Ratnoseterry]

I started this after a video detailing water spirits causing problems in Africa, where people in multiple countries in Africa agree they deal with similar problems. Western society was baffled, but you did a great job explaining just why we have this shortcoming.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks for the watch :)

[@yassslay8269]

i wanna watch the first vid ur talking about pls..

[@benakinnusi2518]

@@yassslay8269same

[@ExpertContrarian]

Water spirits are not real

[@tunnfisk]

Hearing about that American trial of witchery reminds me of our own trials in Sweden. Although ours was in the 17th century... The movie "The Witch" is in my opinion a highly underrated movie and one of the best horror movies done in the last decade. I really liked the suspense, the superstition, the way the movie was shot and the era. The plot twist in the end was excellent. It really put Anya Taylor-Joy on the map for me.

[@zabariduwab9950]

I completely agree

[@FortuneDev]

Incredible video, as an Australian it's interesting to see and hear perspective from what the Satanic Panic was like in the US. There's still echoes of it here, but the idea that cops were given training manuals on how to handle 'Satanic Cults' it is just wild. You might've heard of it, but the Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan is a really interesting read that talks about some of the crazier claims from that era in history, with alien abduction victims alongside 'satanic abuse' victims and you can really see the similarities in how things get grossly exaggerated and falsified by the purported victims.

[@themorbidzoo]

Nice, thanks for the rec (and the watch) :)

[@VulpesVvardenfell]

I recall hearing that parents, teachers, and psychologists were told to look at what color crayons kids were using. If children were preferring red and black then that was evidence of SRA.

[@elevatorman7945]

Expertly said, expertly illustrated. I love your channel. On a different note, having been a child who was raised by a parent who professed to have been the victim of satanic ritual abuse, I sometimes think it's ironic that while she was running from perceived demons she was inadvertently doing some of the things to me that she was trying to run away from. Just to give one example, she was paranoid that anyone could be a member of the cult so she isolated herself and inadvertently isolated myself. Isolation is a cult tactic. Being a little triggered at the moment, this video hit a little too close to home, lol, I do wish I had someone to talk to who got it.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much. :) That’s a really interesting perspective. I’m sorry you had to go through that, hope this wasn’t too much of a day-ruiner. It’s evil how people who push SRA conspiracies don’t see the real-world effect they have.

[@elevatorman7945]

@@themorbidzoo hahaha thanks. 😁 Yah, I just went to bed and was fine in the morning.

[@Rednilsunwood]

Finally caught this after seeing the thumbnail for ages. Succinct, well spoken, altogether delightful and nourishing! The reality that there is no boogieman is a harsh reality for those that take little to no responsibility for their role in life. Fitting, if cruel. I hope in the future, these dynamics have way to play out or shift to something more beneficial to society and others. Also, respectfully, I appreciated seeing Teal Swan here. The most heinous grift is the most empathetic one. Cheers!

[@themorbidzoo]

Big thanks, glad you finally clicked 😁 cheers!

[@psychicsubwoofer5710]

This video SLAPS! My god, this channel needs more attention. Such an engaging watch, really made me think about the film in a new light and the way you connected it with hysteria around satanic cults was fascinating.

[@themorbidzoo]

I ride the high of comments like this for days, thank you!!

[@AltairEgo1]

The music sounds like a Genesis game. Wondering which one it was, if true.

[@lifotheparty6195]

Wonderful that you touched on the satanic panic. I was in a family that got hit hard by the effects of this in the early 90’s. We were a non-Christian family in a VERY Christian (Lutheran) town. Despite nothing have happened we were harassed by people in town, we were taken away by human services for extended periods while they did investigations. My parents never recovered from the stress and harassment, divorced and moved to separate sides of the country. For this reason I never watch horror movies with witches. They either perpetuate and justify the idiotic fears of people who believe…or they make me relive the trauma brought about from this idiots. Either way it’s unpleasant as all get-out.

[@Fenrisson]

7:29 - "Cop/Pastor". That combination of words scared me way more than all Ringu and Ju On media out there.

[@blaze556922]

Loving your channel! "Who hurt you Krammer?" really got me on this one

[@michaelabreu9644]

Amazing video. The topic of mass hysteria and the psychological release it provides humans is also explored in Satoshi Kon's anime Paranoia Agent. I think analyzing the short series would make a nice companion piece to this great video essay, as it takes many of the points you make about human behavior and presents their machinations at work in a more modern "civilized" setting. I think such a thing would bolster your theme even more. Anyway, amazing work. I've become a subscriber! ^_^

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you!! I'm glad you're here! Definitely, Paranoia Agent has been on my list for a long time. I'm kind of in love with the idea that humans are able to materially affect their world through pure belief, and how that never goes away no matter how sophisticated we get. It's, like, maaaagic, man *hits a joint*

[@GamesOnHardMode]

Love to see horror analysis that goes deeper than "ENDING EXPLAINED". Nice video!

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks!! :)

[@NobodyImporttant]

Really loved how you pointed out that people find evil in everything but themselves. Just discovered your channel and the way you convey information is intriguing and entertaining. I will definitely be watching more of your content!

[@inuzuka00]

There are two thoughts here that I'd like to isolate for a minute: the scene where one woman explains almost step by step how a super secret ritual is done (and also how she assures her audience that "they probably didn't know that") (10:20) and the moment in your video where you talk about how witch hunts are nowadays kinda seen like an almost exclusively American thing because of media (4:35). My family has always been very... hippie. In the sense that they believe a lot in New Age stuff, like crystals, reiki, and also a whole lot of conspiracies. And one thing I've found out is that a lot of the time they'll display these kinda behaviors where they think they know something that you don't because of the, as you very well said, efficiency of whatever evil thing they're fighting against (nowadays it's "the Elite", but even though they've never been Christians they also talk about the Devil from time to time). And there're times where they'll talk about, for example, "certain component in whatever food" that's brainwashing/killing us, and I recognize they're talking about stuff that literally cannot happen where I live. Because I live in Spain, in Europe, where the EU has explicit laws against that particular practice they are fighting against. Because they got their intel from some translated text from the US. I guess what I'm trying to say is that these very troubling cases can and do spread to the rest of the world, and I thought it was relevant to point out. (And, as always, fantastic video. You gave me the chills and made me think a lot. And also I really value how you talk about people, since I guess I got kinda used to being surrounded by misanthropists!)

[@themorbidzoo]

Ooh, this is a really interesting perspective. The ease of transference of culture across international boundaries is really getting out of hand, I never thought about it in exactly this way. Thanks for the watch! And the thoughtful comment!

[@DiocletianLarius]

Es que es más fácil de "racionalizar" la existencia de un grupo o un componente que causa todos los males antes q entender o intentar comprender las diversas causas de los mismos. De ahí que se culpe a las Brujas por los males de una aldea, a la Élite por la contaminación de los alimentos, el cáncer, etc. Al Diablo o las maldiciones de los dioses/espíritus/entidades malignas por los continuos desfortunios, etc. De todas formas, y sin ser un loco conspiranoico, eso no quita q muchas conspiraciones y cuentos escondan un atisbo de verdad: vease los hippies estadounidenses con el "MKUltra" o la "Operation Sea-Spray", o estas ideas actuales del uso de agroquímicos y productos cancerígenos mucho más baratos y productivos q los sanos. O bien tmb el uso de productos q son terriblemente malos y lo desconocemos porq la ciencia y tecnología no son tan avanzadas como para descubrirlos (como los romanos q usaban el plomo como "azúcar", o nuestros abuelos y bisabuelos con sus pinturas y juguetes de plomo)

[@beyondrecall9446]

that's interesting.. basically, your family are witches.. just kidding.. It\s like people here in Serbia talking about vegetables, how it's all GMO and they're poisoning us.. FunFact: any GMO food is banned in Serbia.. Another FunFact: A good friend works at a soy factory.. I mean, an enourmous Factory ith silos and labs, etc.. And his job is to take samples and examine them.. Anyway, one day he took a sample from a silo and found a seed that is GMO in the lab.. So, there might have been only a little bit of GMO soy, but they had to empty the whole silo and destroy the grain and wash it after that incident..

[@AmeliaMastervally]

Yes! I feel with how America very much dominates media across the world it sorta takes over our own beliefs. My one aunt went down an anti-abortion pipeline due to American youtuber, and wanted to protest against abortions being legal. It was such a bizaar idea because she wanted to go to an "abortion clinic" which don't exist in my country, those procedures are performed in actual hospitals or clinics, alongside other types of medical care. We also pointed out to her that it doesn't matter if she did protest, abortions as a right were protected by the constitution, had been since the 90s,and it would likely never change. We've had similar discussions around drag queens, trans rights, the right to free speech and many other arguments that undoubtably originated in America. It's very bizaar to see how this cross cultural idea exchange changes her view on things that are very different from what she believes them to be. She's so wrapped up in the fevor of what she's been told, she hasn't realised this hysteria is straight up not applicable to her own situation

[@inuzuka00]

@@AmeliaMastervally In a way what saddens me the most about this phenomena is that you can't really change their mind?? Like, first of all, they are SUPER convinced. But second: you're in the same place they were before. Everything you tell them is gonna receive an immediate "yeah, I thought like that too. BEFORE I learnt-". In that sense, you are always the one that's brainwashed. And it doesn't help that a lot lot lot of these conspiracy theories and general beliefs (like the anti-abortion rabbit hole) originate from fascist groups; every time you say "this is nazi propaganda", it doesn't matter how well you explain it, the one that sounds insane is gonna be you.

[@greenfilmsofficial]

This is probably the best analysis of this fantastic film I've seen. The way you connected the Satanic panic to the events of the film was absolutely genius! I'm a big fan of your channel and out of all your videos this one might just be my favourite. Excellent work!

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@adriannavarro1546]

I started to watch this video expecting this to be a review of a movie I hadn’t even watched, but then i realized, by every second that passed, that the narration present in this video by Mariana Colín is among the best ive ever seen on any type of media. Hands down one of the best videos ive ever seen, thank you for the entertainment.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks 🥹

[@QueenSoledad]

The German witch hunting book was giving serious Andrew tate vibes

[@themorbidzoo]

😂

[@elgatochurro]

You worship him?

[@elgatochurro]

@@zerobullets6935 People legit think Tate was original or worth listening to as they freak out over everythign he says.

[@liannapfister8255]

“Poor Caleb…If he had been born in a kinder time or place he likely would’ve had other girls to look at than his sister”

[@mcgoo721]

Yeah but, and I never had a sister, but if Anya was my sister I'd def be throwing her some looks. She was fine af in this

[@aaron_accordion]

Great video--thank you for posting! "Witches" were yesterday's scapegoats--but people with power will always find another group to blame for the problems of life being hard.

[@steflift5165]

You have such an impressive way of describing things concisely and clearly. I'm loving the video essay format, it's so much more productive in terms of ideas than the infotainment channels that will draw out any tenuous claim to the magic 10 minute mark.

[@amily961]

The belief that women are more connected/susceptible to evil is the most egregious example of projection that I’ve ever heard.

[@Snoopy813]

It’s true tho 🚬☕️

[@elgatochurro]

*looks at divorce and domestic abuse statistics*

[@elgatochurro]

@@boys-ie5tt Did you see the women in charge? The women who pushed atrocities and what those were? You just skip over that history? The fact it's so NORMALIZED THAT MEN SHOULD WORK THEMSELVES TO DEATH, DO THE DEADLY DANGEROUS JOBS, AND HAVE NO SAY ON IF THEY'RE GOING TO GO DIE IN A WAR... should show you that women have helped form a bias that BENEFITS THEM... Men go be plumbers, men go with nuclear reactors, men go die in war... Women get to CHOOSE if they even want to participate in any of that. Even past that have you SEEN THE ABORTION RATES??? It's succeeding most wars for murder, each of those is a life loss that could've been prevented in many ways.

[@kgpspyguy]

@@elgatochurro Women are 70% more likely to abuse children then men actually. Plus, the children of single mothers consistently grow up to be narcissistic, maladjusted criminals, while the children of single FATHERS consistently grow up to be as well adjusted as loving two parent homes.

[@traiascacodreanu4553]

​​@@boys-ie5ttYeah you're sure helping at improving relations between men and women. Too easily riled by dumb comments and immediately saying dumb stuff. You need thicker skin.

[@halfapatty2153]

I don't even know how I found your channel, it's so small, and I'm usually not that interested in video essays but this is awesome. All your videos are so professionally structured and the way you talk about things, it sucks you in. They're all just so well written. Please continue to do stuff on youtube.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much 😊❤️

[@macfilms9904]

I'm descended from a bunch of the families that were in Salem during the Witch trials - including a family that had a daughter hung for witchcraft - it made "The VVitch" really hit home for me - knowing my forebears participated in the mass delusions and even losing a daughter to it.

[@fritzritchie147]

I’d like to say that you really do deserve more attention for your videos! I discovered your channel through your video on “The Thing,” and I think I’ve found my new favorite nerd! I mean it affectionately of course! You’re one of the few intellectually inclined KZbinrs whose videos aren’t *nails on chalkboard* level of preening. Straight and clear analysis, dipping into the heart of a film’s message and inspiration rather than just making superficial judgments - I think you’ve got potential as a legitimate critic (as opposed to just a KZbinr, of course) I’m now a sub. Cheers :)

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you so much!! Everything you just complimented me on is something I expressly set out to do when I write, so this was really nice to read. :) I'll confess I wasn't sure what you were talking about regarding my dismissive tone toward religion, so I rewatched it for the first time in a long time and I'm...still not sure what you mean haha. I *think* what you're referring to is the Christian imagery associated with past witchhunting, which in this particular case of mass western paranoia about the occult, has always been explicitly framed in matters of Christian ideology, often bastardized to serve a political goal, so I don't think there's really a way to talk about the cause of these things without talking about religion in general and Christianity in particular. I don't think a belief in a higher power is unreasonable, but it's unquestionable that organized religion often veers into superstition, as it has in the various Satanic panics over the centuries, including today in Qanon. I think that would be the case regardless of what the dominant belief structure is, atheism included. I hope this clears things up a little. Anyway, I appreciate your kind disagreement and am glad you're sticking around!!

[@fritzritchie147]

@@themorbidzoo Well, shawty, I think I just misunderstood you. I was spending some time with my boon companion - J&B, that night, and I had spent a little too much time binge watching. Easy mistake, anyone can make it. You can confess that too... or I’ll unsub. Looking forward to your next vid! You should do one on the new Halloween, or maybe talk about horror remakes in general. I’m still trying to figure out if I want to watch it or not.

[@themorbidzoo]

@@fritzritchie147 Lol happens to the best of us. Horror remakes and Michael Meyers in general are for sure on my list. I write theatrical reviews for hidefninja.com and wrote one about Halloween Kills. You can read it if you like! But in short, I didn't care for it. www.hidefninja.com/2021/10/16/halloween-kills-review-michael-meyers-does-michael-meyers-things-or-whatever/

[@shadowarez1337]

All these are seriously deep. People are our own worst enemy's I'm surprised we have survived as long as we have if you look back at what we've done in the past. As always great analysis of materiel..

[@michelleh.5225]

The only reason the human race has survived is because people keep breeding like rabbits without considering for one second what kind of world they are bringing new beings into.

[@manuelleyva2811]

This was the first horror movie I ever saw on theatres, I had nightmares for like a month lmao. The other day I was watching more of your videos and this video was recommended to me, which made me want to rewatch it after a long long time just for the purpose of watching this video. What a great movie, easily one of my top 3 2010s horror films. Also I love your videos, probably some of the best movie content on KZbin

[@themorbidzoo]

It’s a masterpiece. Thanks so much :)

[@battlekry1978]

This video went a whole other direction but is exactly what was on my mind when I saw the movie. I forgot how recent this same type of mentality has run rampant in our society. Loved your take on all this!

[@okapibibi]

Oh, how serendipitous that the algorithm worked and showed me this video while I've been on a The Witch high these past days. Your video presents such an unique perspective on the film and the connection to the Satanic Panic in the US was great. The Witch is my favourite horror film, and I'm so glad you talked about it! And looking over your other videos, I believe you might just become one of my favourite channels! Thank you so much, and I hope your channel grows further!

[@TimZoet]

I really enjoyed this video. We are all so great at pointing out other people's biases, yet fail to see our own. We always think we can look at the world objectively, but keep projecting our own fears and insecurities onto it. Our technological advancements also make us fall for this trap again and again, since we look at history and how far we've advanced so we think: "NOW we know everything. We used to be uneducated fools, but with modern science and technology we've finally escaped and we can now say we know the truth." But of course we don't. There is so much we don't understand or know, so we will repeat the cycle. And future generations will think the same of us, as we think of our ancestors. Great video analysis

[@SpookyouKnowIt23]

Yeah, you're an 11/10 video essayist. The algorithm dropped your vids in my lap this afternoon and I'm here for everything so far.

[@HittokiriBattousai17]

I'd like to quote a famous proverb often used for cases like the VVitch: _"Fear is the mind killer"_

[@_elevenofspades]

You are an exemplary writer AND narrator. This essay was like music to my ears, well done 🤍🤍🤍

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much 😊

[@RhysticStudies]

this is one of the most compelling and concise videos I've seen. thank you so much for your work.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@TurahkTamer]

Can't help but echo the other comments that this is a fantastic video! Seriously well-researched, and adds so much more context and perspective to both the film and historical events.

[@josephgalvez5048]

“Ya know what? Good for her.” My honest reaction to seeing this movie, I quite enjoyed it.

[@ExpertContrarian]

That shows how dangerous you people are

[@SwampFeet678]

Deliciously happy

[@jessikacaroline72]

Great and necessary content! Glad I found it and I hope it reaches as many people as possible. Is an indispensable message. Sucess!

[@KameroonEmperor]

This is so far my favourite video on KZbin this year

[@hanchan254]

Can you imagine the absolute the absolute surreal experience of being arrested for flushing your child down the toilet?

[@brooksbanister]

This video essay was amazing! Hilariously tongue-in-cheek, educational, well-narrated. Thank you!

[@maxmcdevitt5325]

This is beyond excellent content. You kick ass!

[@SleepyAdam]

So glad this is back up. One of my favorite video essays.

[@themorbidzoo]

@@SleepyAdam enjoy while it lasts, it’s under review right now so it’ll either be up forever or vanish in a week 🥲

[@skippingstep1515]

At my university, a lot of people tend to look down on the Puritans for the witch burnings of their era. I've always responded with: "Why? Because they made decisions based off of paranoia and misinterpreted information that lead to the unnecessary suffering of their fellow men and women? Cause we TOTALLY have stopped doing that now, right? Christ sake, they lit things by candle, cut them some slack."

[@userequaltoNull]

The funny thing is, the Puritains only held one witch trial, which they regretted so much that the movement died out just a few decades later.

[@sincerelyzee521]

i mean, pretty easy to say when you're not the one being hanged. it was a horrific act of violence no matter what time it was done.

[@katierasburn9571]

@@sincerelyzee521this fr, easy to say when youve not been tortured ans killed because some man who probably had it out for you said so!

[@VulpesVvardenfell]

@@userequaltoNull In America they held one witch trial, but the Puritans originated in England and at times had power - even controlling the government under Cromwell. There were plenty of witch trials there during the Puritan era. Those who were convicted usually weren't burned though in England either. Burnings sometimes happened because the person was convicted on another charge that prescribed burning, but it's not typical.

[@userequaltoNull]

@@VulpesVvardenfell Fair. In America, there is literally 0 education or popular interest in early-modern history, so everything I know about the period outside the colonies pretty much comes from SandRhoman History on YT lol. Never mentioned Oliver Cromwell, though world and American history were taught pretty extensively.

[@Table53]

I had your channel on the sidebar of mine in a little box of "other small KZbinrs to watch" and literally just last week I thought "no videos for 8 months, it's a shame but I guess they've stopped" and took it off the list haha Two days later and another excellent video! Definitely going back into that sidebar and I hope you can keep this going! You make some truly fantastic videos, just need a bit of luck somewhere to get a bunch of first time viewers and you'll have a successful channel in no time because the quality is absolutely there.

[@themorbidzoo]

Oh you absolute doll. Thanks so so much for your support! I fully intend to keep it going. It's so much fun, but so easy to let time get away, especially with all the voices in your head telling you it's not worth it throughout the entire process. I can't tell you how much comments like yours help. :)

[@AammaK]

What a phenomenal video! I can't belive you got all this into less than 15 minutes!

[@nickpetrou9724]

I just watched your video on the Thing, and now this, my all-time favourite movie, and I've gotta say -- well fricken done. Your writing is exceptional, as with your delivery

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much 😊

[@Corriethosaurus]

Kudos to the algorithm for bringing me to your channel, I just watched your video on the original vs prequel version of The Thing and I feel like I’m going to be binging a lot more in the coming days. Excellent work!! These vids are killer!!

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you! 😊

[@ClaireSunshine]

This is maybe my 4th or 5th video of yours that I've watched, all in one day, and every single one of them has been an absolute banger. I cannot wait to see what else you make!!!

[@bloodstoppin]

watching this as a trans person in tennessee who has been out over twelve years, and now suddenly is facing extreme prejudice... this is a great video, thanks.

[@Nicholasjkonyha]

You people wanna wave your junk in little kids faces in public parades? You’re freaks. Against nature. No wonder you all end up offing yourselves. Fix your psychological miswiring. Evil agendas have brainwashed you broken people. Fix it or suffer

[@Nicholasjkonyha]

You will NEVER be treated equally as a “trans” The whole agenda is to create discord amongst the people, so they never work together and overthrow those who facilitate the agenda(s) in the first place. Wake up fool

[@Wot50202]

Maybe it’s because it’s you’re a man in a romper and you can’t force people to be comfortable with that lmao. Jesus christ, Mister Victim.

[@jamalcalypse]

first video and fuggennnn subbbd'dd'!! amazing work tying everything into the satanic panic era. caught your RedLetterMedia reference. loved the tense buildup at the end and all the sound work in general. great insights, analysis, and research. can tell I'll be enjoying this channel!

[@tommy_bedward]

Thank you for this, this is absolutely fantastic! xxxxxxx

[@saxonhermit]

This video is excellent. As a Christian myself, I feel like a lot of the panic around Satanic cults and their supposedly supernatural abilities comes down to bad theology, but it's bad theology that is very good at creating an atmosphere of fear and suspicion. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that real demons exist, but more often than not, the fact is, you're right: we look for the demons we want to see. We are so terrified of a life of suffering (which is, as you pointed out, the natural state of the human life) that demons must exist to account for all the suffering therein, even if they are conjured by nothing more than the imagination of the sufferer. The real reasons for all that suffering being as complex as they are--the cyclical nature of violence and victimization, the attempts to justify evil through desperation, and just plain old bad luck, along with a myriad of other causes--makes dealing with them a lot more difficult, and makes the easier answer of "a witch did it" or "a devil did it" or "THEY did it" (there's always another big evil "Them" after all) much more appealing. Of course, the easy answers are rarely satisfying for long, and often lead to more harm than good. All this to say, video gud, smol minecraft man on the internet agrees with you, good job and thanks for the good think

[@tesselate8nowait262]

One of the best modern horror films of all time. It’s terrifying because it feels entirely plausible and the sense of doom is oppressive. It’s one of those films that I come back to at least once a year.

[@bogwitchburke]

HOW AM I ONLY FINDING YOUR CHANNEL NOW 😭 Your content is 10/10 premium cut

[@theorangel8331]

kinda funny to think that they thought women were evil and at the same time, not being with a woman, gay, is a sin too

[@almasakic1148]

This was probably the most profound explanation of what 'witch' means that I've ever heard.

[@ScarBrosBlackSmokeScarBrosBlac]

This freaking line... "A witch will always find you" is making my whole body shiver

[@Thaelyn1312]

Wonderful points made. Loved the build up with the use of the music from the film at the end too.

[@dillon8755]

This right here, an absolute banger of a KZbin video essay. Thank you for this!

[@themorbidzoo]

@@dillon8755 thanks ☺️

[@echoblue3859]

I love this movie because the actual “horror” depends on who’s watching it. To Me - the horror is not Satan tormenting a family ,but Thomasin being controlled and gaslight by her family and her powerlessness. Satan ironically is her liberator.

[@jasonbarton9352]

Watched this, strapped in, and absolutely loved the right amount of intelligent 360 viewpoints mixed into today's media. Automatically hit the subscribe button. LOVE THIS!!!!!

[@TheForeignersNetwork]

The Witch is absolutely one of the best modern horror movies ever made, and it's also my favorite :)

[@leonardoandrade471]

Amazing video, shouldn't have left it in watch later for so long. You got a new subscriber!

[@ossapinhosfazemhumah]

10:14 holy shit... that task bar and clutter of browser tabs is the real panic.

[@povmattyb]

one of the better video essays I’ve watched in a long time!

[@michaelmingyar6117]

This is a very well thought out and interesting video! I honestly can't find much to criticize, which is extremely impressive given the size of your account! Subbed, hopefully you'll get the attention you deserve soon :)

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much!

[@treygreen6983]

So true. Good stuff, this. I really liked this movie, atmospheric, sensual, depraved, and perfectly mundane in most respects, for the time it's supposed to represent. The whole production is shrouded in hypnotic nightmare, which is the only thing a horror movie needs to be excellent. Please a sequel that's an unrelated story of the same shit. This genre is 'mazing.

[@craigh2324]

One of my favorite movies ever! It's a devilish meditation on self-fulfilling prophecy.

[@samdryden7944]

"Oh, cool, a review of that movie I watched, and... WOW." Love your work, thank you for posting.

[@georgeofhamilton]

It feels like this video essay is less focused on sharing a coherent theory about a film and more on just overwhelming you with pessimism, lol. Pretty good work.

[@ackerman207]

Holy shit, this is one of the best videos I've ever seen on this platform. I was entranced.

[@TheCycloneTrooper]

The editing and content is top-notch - great work in bringing the detailed analysis to the audience at large I personally liked the movie - though had they not explicitly shown clips of actual witches & witchcraft, it would've made for a solid case-study into the psychological experience, interpretation and response to the primordial fear of death and more palpably, to the fear of doing wrong by an Abrahamic, vengeful God.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks :) agreed, showing the witches was an interesting decision, I’m not sure whether I would have liked it better or worse if they hadn’t

[@RATZGobbler]

Love how the music ratchets up the tension around the end but you've also honed a skill I could only call "Charged Monologue" which lends well to that tension.

[@MassacreVegan]

“Justifiably suspicious Native Americans” is an interesting sentence to say.

[@themorbidzoo]

How so

[@ook4698]

after reading some comments, ive come to realize that morbidzoo meant that the natives were suspicious of the family, not that the natives themselves are suspicious just existing

[@tsarXadam]

This is an excellent video, you're a great writer. The Witch is one of my favorites.

[@freeloading_toad]

The year this came out my little brother got it for Christmas and we watched it during breakfast in the living room 😀 it’s a tradition now lol

[@User-435ggrest]

Fantastic video, the music choises and the clips. Perfect.

[@andrewditzhazy4089]

This channel needs more attention. Your editing and writing are both well above par.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you!! :)

[@dazey8706]

easily one of the best video essays on this all platforms wow

[@thatguywithoutahead]

Damn I found your channel yesterday when searching for pre cgi footage of the thing 2011 and I have to say you do some amazing stuff! Highly enyojable and informative.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks so much! 😊