"Anjelica Huston dominates The Witches as the sinister Grand High Witch.
It's almost as if, generationally speaking, the atomic impact of governmental, environmental and societal eruptions of recent years are finally being replicated in grim and angst-ridden prophecies – from the eerie post-war atmosphere of Jamie xx's recent Romain Gavras-directed video for Gosh, to Radiohead's sinister Burn the Witch animation.
He's also well-acquainted with the Witch, a sinister, weeping apparition who won't bother you, providing you don't bother her.
Instead of telling them party details in your regular voice, try practicing a sinister accent or a witch laugh and dare your friends to come to your house at whatever time you are having the party.
I think: I'll have bushes on the left-hand side where she's walking because that's more frightening than the open fields, and then on the right I'm going to have some of those distorted trees you get in East Anglia, distorted by the winds – some of them look like witches, waving witches' arms; very sinister.
Another nod to more recent vintages of "Macbeth" is evident in those sinister muses, the three witches (Myra Lucretia Taylor, Starla Benford and Kelly Hutchinson), who again show up as battlefield scavengers, Mother Courage types gone toxic.
Burn The Witch is as sinister as anything Jonny Greenwood has yet arranged.
The group Salem make a strange, sinister music that others have labelled "witch house", grouping them with acts including Balam Acab, Stalker and oOoOO (whose "Hearts" is surely one of the tracks of the year).
The answer may be simple strong story, enthusiastic word of mouth, and an ingeniously plotted website designed to lure the curious with ever more sinister background to the apocryphal Blair Witch legend.
However, among the most sinister reasons were the anti-Communist witch hunts of the Cold War era, which intimidated many leftists and discouraged a new generation from making political art.
