The Witch horror movie exclusive clip

In the new horror film The Witch (out Feb. 19), a family of 17th-century Puritans are tormented by a sorceress after establishing an isolated farmstead in the New England wilderness. First-time filmmaker and New England native Robert Eggers amps up the terror by painstakingly recreating a time when witches were believed to be a genuine danger.

“With the dialog, I’m using things that people actually said in the period,” he says of the film, which was a scarifying sensation at last year’s Sundance Festival. “The family farm is made with correct building materials and the costumes are handstitched based on patterns of actual clothing. We were working with historians and museums to really nail this.”

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The Witch stars Anya Taylor-Joy (BBC America’s Atlantis), Ralph Ineson (the U.K.’s The Office), and Kate Dickie (Prometheus), among others. You can see an exclusive clip from the film above.