The Witch in the Window
Directed by Andy Mitton
Simon and his estranged twelve-year-old son, Finn, head to Vermont to repair an old farmhouse - and hopefully, their relationship. But shortly after arriving, they learn of the previous owner, an infamously cruel woman named Lydia who may have never left. And as Simon makes repairs, he's also making Lydia's spirit stronger... until a terrifying encounter leaves him doubting whether he can protect his son from the evil that's making its way into their heads, and hearts. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL.
A father and son fix up a home with a very dark past.
Cast: Alex Draper, Charlie Tacker, Carol Stanzione
Member Reviews
Very good low budget
Beautifully atmospheric, slow built story with great characters. Fantastic directing with amazing subtlety with very good cinematography. Highly recommend this one!
a solid movie. It builds tension well, and the father and son are a joy to watch. They really build a sense of tension as you really don't want anything to happen to them. where the movie failed to deliver was the big bad. the witch in the window fails to be scary in any meaningful way, and in turn, the ending falls flat. still worth a watch because it doesn't overstay its welcome.
A good ghost story. The relationship between the father and son was very charming. I like how it got a little high-strangeness near the end, and wasn’t just all your normal haunted house tropes. The writing and acting and wife in the first two minutes made me want to shut it off, but I pushed through.
The relationship between the father and son was really charming, and kinda the only thing that kept me watching. The writing was awkward sometimes, I wasnt able to take the witch seriously as a threat, but i definitely appreciated the crazy twists and turns near the end; I genuinely didn't expect a lot of what happened. However the last 10-15min of the movie realllllly dragged and didnt make a lot of sense. And the portrayal of the wife at the beginning of the movie was truly putrid even though her personality did a complete 180 at the end. It immediately makes you dislike her and sets an uncomfortable tone for the overall family dynamic, in ways that ultimately are contradicted by her not being a raging b*tch at all in the ending. I'd say this is a fun b-movie watch and if you can take the occasionally weird writing, theres a really charming narrative of fatherly love and healing a fracture in it.