A movie about mysterious events that took place in the US during the 17th century doesn’t seem that exciting. And this low-budget film was the first movie director Robert Eggers ever made. But the Sundance Film Festival really helped with the film’s publicity. The director managed to find an independent film distributor and then he found a bigger worldwide distribution company.

It seems that very low-budget horror films are becoming a global trend these days. It’s worth noting, the creative team was very meticulous about the film. In order to appear more realistic, they used only natural light like candles, for example, and in order to create the costumes, they only used materials that really existed at that time. The tight budget forced the team to learn about the smallest details from this time period since they had to reduce costs as much as possible.