Excuse me sir it's rude to be this gorgeous

[rynling]

So I got invited to present at a conference in Slovenia this coming summer. Which of course made me think about Nosferatu and its Eastern European Instagram Filter™ lighting, which I unironically loved. Then I thought about how Robert Eggers used the same style of lighting to portray New England in The Witch. And then I remembered how much I wanted to pet the evil goat in that movie, Black Phillip. The actual goat, who is named Charlie, was apparently so ungovernable that it gored Ralph Ineson in the ribs (source), if only we could all be so honored. And then I got curious about who played Black Phillip's human form, which is strongly implied to be Satan himself.

It turns out that the person Eggers cast to portray Satan is a Canadian actor named Daniel Malik, and



Like seriously, this fucking guy



I've read a lot of commentary on The Witch, and no one ever mentioned this. Which I think is a glaring omission in the critical discourse. Because goddamn.