Like Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, a fairy tale come to life. A zealously righteous puritan thinks the other puritans are too lax, so he takes his wife and five children and leaves the settlement to fend for himself. Not long after, his infant son vanishes when his daughter, who is playing with him, blinks. Literally, the baby disappears in the wink of an eye.
The film does a great job of showing the horrific consequences that the Calvinist branch…