The new trailer that was just released for the festival award-winning film "The Witch" is just about as terrifying as it is authentic.

According to Collider, the film itself is so unnerving that when the credits rolled, the audience had an uncomfortable sense of dread attached to them.

The film goes back to the roots of American witchcraft and folklore and takes a look at what the tall tales of that time period have lent to popular fiction.

The trailer shows several scenes that were more about the "shark you didn't see," with a string of terrifying sequences of fear that surrounds the colonial family.

The film takes place a generation before the infamous Salem Witch Trials, in the year 1630. The events unfold when the patriarch and his colonial family are sent away by the settlers of an American Puritan settlement. The father's outspoken criticism of the leaders in the community about their lax rules on religious tolerance has led the man to the wilderness with his family to fend for themselves.

That is when the disappearances and afflictions start to take place. The family is all alone in the wilderness with no one to come and help them. Once the events start to unfold, they have no other choice but to fight the entity or endure its terrible wrath.

The film debuted at Sundance this year and received mountains of critical and audience appraise. It does not rely on the jump scares that American audiences are so used to with films like "The Conjuring" and "Sinister." The horror of this film sensually immerses the viewer into an ever-expanding sense of dread that never seems to stop growing throughout.

"The Witch" stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Katie Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson and Ellie Grainger. There has been no release date announced yet, but it will be sometime in 2016.

Check out the trailer for the film below.