As someone who has done a decent amount of work with witchcraft, stuff like this, not the movie but the marketing, kinda ticks me off. Both sides, Evangelicals and those like the Church of Satan that essentially use stuff like this for edgy marketing, are supporting a ridiculous ahistorical view of witches and witchcraft. A lot of historical effort over the last 60 years has been dedicated to the subject, and I find it quite sad that none of it has bleed over into the real world.
There were real witches, some of whom thought they were consorting with demons, though most in the Hellenic sense of the word, and some of whom were practicing Natural magic, a kind of precursor to science. Meanwhile those persecuting them were not entirely irrational and those persecutions were not a hallmark of the entire medieval period. Witch Hunts are mostly a phenomenon of the 16th and 17th centuries and are more complicated than they are given credit for by the wider public.
