10 Perfect Horror Movie Lines
7. "Wouldst Thou Like To Live... Deliciously?" - The Witch
It's hard to believe that before the release of critic's darling The Witch in 2015, worldwide audiences had not yet been introduced to the revolutionary work of director Robert Eggers.
Visionary filmmaker Eggers is a master of his craft - namely, unsettling the living sh*t out of his audiences with his uniquely nuanced audio-visual style. Furthermore, the director somehow always knows when to ease his foot off the pedal in terms of shock factor - although he's just as happy to suddenly ram it back to the floor with little to no warning.
There is perhaps no finer example of this status quo than the honeyed words of Black Philip, the family goat finally revealing himself to be none other than Satan after the film's harrowing events duly claim the lives of Anya-Taylor Joy's Thomasin's family one by one. Whispered dulcet tones barely puncturing the silence left since Thomasin killed her mother in self-defense, the low, melodious voice seductively dangles the prospect of a life of luxury and privilege before the young woman, far away from the restraints of her Puritanical upbringing.
"Wouldst thou like to live... deliciously?"
It's hard to recall a voice that sounds more perfectly like the Devil - a velvety tone that should be warm and soothing, but instead makes one's blood run cold. Thomasin signs her soul over, becoming the thing she was constantly accused of being in the most melancholic of ironies.