Director: Daniel Yates
A wooden doll with a monstrous history and a college dropout forced to face her family's buried past collide in Salem Witch Doll, a lean 2024 British horror film built around folk-tale dread.
What is Salem Witch Doll about?
Sarah has dropped out of college and is drifting through a low point in her life when strange occurrences pull her back toward her family's history. At the center of it is a legend passed down for generations: a monstrous wooden creature tied to old Salem folklore, one that her relatives once tried to bury along with the truth about where it came from. As the disturbances around Sarah escalate, she's forced to dig into records and memories her family would rather leave alone, piecing together why the doll has resurfaced now and what it actually wants. The people she loves become targets as the creature closes in, and Sarah realizes that surviving means accepting a version of her own purpose she never asked for. The film keeps its scope small and its folklore focused, building dread out of family secrets rather than spectacle.
Cast & crew
Tash Chant leads as Sarah, opposite Mackintosh Muggleton and Amanda Jane York in key roles tied to the family history at the story's core. Bárbara Brito, Mark Collier, Robin Kirwan, Lynne O'Sullivan, and Jodie Bagnell round out the ensemble caught in the doll's orbit.
Context & significance
Director Daniel Yates works within a well-worn tradition of cursed-object horror, but roots the film specifically in Salem's witch-trial folklore rather than a generic haunting. At 76 minutes, the film is compact by design, favoring a tight, escalating threat over a sprawling mythology, which keeps the family-secret angle front and center throughout.
Where & how to watch
Salem Witch Doll streams on K-Time with a free account login required to watch; the page itself is open to browse without signing in. K-Time is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking audiences, with horror and genre titles like this one easy to find across the catalog.