“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”
When Robert Eggers’ debut feature The Witch was released in 2016, this quote quickly became the film’s most popular tagline. Uttered by Satan (in the form of the goat known as Black Phillip) to Anya Taylor-Joy’s Puritan teenager Thomasin, the question is posed as an invitation for Thomasin to sign away her soul in exchange for freedom from the religious and sexual repression thrust upon her by 17th-century New England society. Thomasin’s simple response?