I didn't get anything out of The Witch and I didn't get anything out of this either, so the issue must be that my sensibilities are different from Robert Eggers'. I can tell that he's a skilled filmmaker because this film has great cinematography, attention to detail, authenticity, but there's nothing in it that held my interest, apart from Willem Dafoe being great as usual. I disliked in particular the score, which kept blaring over everything as if to say "look, this is really spooky. Are you spooked yet?"