#Repost @chibagrrl ... #Repost @masky5150 • • • • • Your #HorroBro Masky here with another #HorrorPets selection in the autumn awesomeness that is the #HorrorSisters31DaysOfHalloween2021 celebration. Today we spotlight Black Phillip the goat. Black Phillip was introduced to us in the Robert Eggers’ 2015 horror masterpiece, The Witch: A New-England Folktale. Taking place in 1630s New England, The Witch is about a family relocating after being banished from their community due to religious differences of opinion. The patriarch of the family, William, thinking the towns leaders are “false Christians.” He believes he has found the ideal location for his family to settle on. The family consists of parents William and Katherine, their children Thomasin, Caleb, Mercy, Jonas, and baby Samuel. After tragedy strikes the family, the home they had built for themselves starts to reveal itself as a living hell. With a movie titled The Witch you’d think the witch herself is the main antagonist, but not so fast. She’s vicious and evil in her own right, but there’s something much bigger at play here. The horrors of the movie lie in the subtle answers and information you are being given early on. Throughout the movie Mercy tells Thomasin that Black Phillip has told her things. Mercy, being a young kid (no pun intended) isn’t taken serious because WTF, a talking goat? Also throughout the movie Mercy and Jonas go around dancing and singing songs dedicated to Black Phillip with lyrics like “a crown grows on his head”, and describing him as the “King of all”, the “King of sky and land”, also the “King of sea and sand.” Pretty strange for kids to be singing such lyrics, especially about a goat. And the real question, the one nobody else in the family seems to be asking, who taught them these songs? What’s seen is just as terrifying as what isn’t seen. Where did Black Phillip come from? He was just another animal the family had on the farm, or so they thought. In the end it’s Black Phillip triumphant, another addition to his coven of disciples. He is the puppet master, the great corrupter. The devil himself. He is Black Phillip. 𝔚𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔩 https://www.instagram.com/p/CVb2t0XFWff/?utm_medium=tumblr