So what this film is basically saying is that the Salem witch trials were in fact legitimate.
The women accused actually did perform supernatural acts that were, if not evil, then at least hateful.
I see the popularity of this film as a case of atheists/pagans/wiccans reveling in their assumed power and "demonizing" the sanctimony of the Christian establishment.
The witches' power when it is finally revealed is awful and in fact seems to justify the longstanding superstitions about witches and satanic practices. I know there are "good witches" and "bad witches" (I saw "Wizard of Oz") but there is only evil in this film. If it has a meaning or a message, it is that the old superstitions are true.
The women accused actually did perform supernatural acts that were, if not evil, then at least hateful.
I see the popularity of this film as a case of atheists/pagans/wiccans reveling in their assumed power and "demonizing" the sanctimony of the Christian establishment.
The witches' power when it is finally revealed is awful and in fact seems to justify the longstanding superstitions about witches and satanic practices. I know there are "good witches" and "bad witches" (I saw "Wizard of Oz") but there is only evil in this film. If it has a meaning or a message, it is that the old superstitions are true.