Robert Eggers "can't stand" rewatching The Witch
Well, this just makes us want to watch the director's dazzling debut film all over again

With his third film on the way, director Robert Eggers is revealing a his true feelings about his 2015 debut The Witch. “Honestly, I can’t stand watching The Witch now,” Eggers tells The Guardian in an interview.
“It’s not that it’s bad, and the performances are great, but I was not skilled enough as a filmmaker to get what was in my brain onto the screen,” he continues.
The Witch earned strong reviews, and it marked a stellar debut for Eggers as well as Anya Taylor-Joy, who would move on to become a household name with Netflix sensation The Queen’s Gambit. The feature helped launch both of them—as well as distributor A24—into the big time. Eggers would follow up The Witch with the surrealist sailor feature The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.