It’s a strikingly global trend, spanning puritan New England (“The Witch”), rural Iceland (“羊肉”), North Dublin (“You Are Not My Mother”) and pagan cults of Sweden (“Midsommar”）。这些电影中最好的不仅仅是从另一个时间挖出一个超自然的力量，而是调整它出现的精神和心理。

Goran Stolevski is an Australian writer-director, but he was born and raised in Macedonia. And in his feature-film debut, “You Won’t Be Alone,” he has drawn from old regional witch tales to craft a spell-binding immersion in a distant and fantastical 19th century Macedonian realm that nevertheless throbs with a strange, timeless existentialism. If you are picturing broomsticks, don’t. We aren’t in Kansas anymore.

“You Won’t Be Alone,” which opens in theaters Friday, April 1, begins with a visit from a 200-year-old witch (a brilliant Anamaria Marinca). She’s known as Old Maid Maria or as the Wolf-Eateress, and her face is pockmarked from the fire that wouldn’t consume her. She has come for a peasant woman’s infant daughter, Nevena. The mother pleads to let her raise the child until she’s 16, a bargain that Maria strikes by cutting the child’s tongue out. After trying to hide Nevena all her life in a cave with a natural skylight high above, Maria comes for her, arriving in the form of a crow.

This isn’t a computer-generated transformation, nor are any of those that follow. Shape-shifting continues throughout “You Won’t Be Alone,” but it is always seen naturally and a little mysteriously. It’s done in a cut.

当玛丽亚领导Nevena（Sara Klimoska）出来的洞穴时，它是世界上最奇怪的洗礼之一。到目前为止，她的众所周知，不仅仅是一堆死叶。在阳光下，田园庄园和她的新俘虏，尼维纳奇迹在世界上，她没有把握或她的地方。在声音中，携带触摸泰伦马里克电影中的那些，尼维纳的半成品 - 她称玛丽亚“女巫 - 妈妈”和自己“我 - 巫婆” - 争取理解。“我，我是魔鬼？”

玛丽亚开始筹集Nevena作为一种典范，但她的课程是残酷的。看到Nevena与兔子玩兔子，玛丽亚挑选出来，抓住它的脖子并指示，“血，而不是玩耍。”但玛丽亚迅速生长与她的女巫瞳孔感到沮丧。她的母亲累人，她转变为一只狼，独自留下了林纳。

Nevena is left to roam the countryside, where her unusual point of view lends an outsider’s perspective on humanity. She might as well be an alien in human disguise. What she sees both enraptures and horrifies her. Nevena soon realizes she, too, can transform. After accidentally killing a peasant woman (Noomi Rapace), she uses her sharp black fingernails to clutch the woman’s insides and stuff them inside a cavity in her chest.

“What isn’t strange?” she muses. Well, the clawed-out insides certainly are. But “You Won’t Be Alone” — not really a horror film — is much more concerned with using the young witch’s innocent but deadly outlook to examine life. She’s a witch anthropologist, and her transformations from one body to the next — a beautiful young woman, a young man, a dog, a child — give her many windows to look out from. As a woman in the male-dominated society, she notices that when woman are around men, “the mouth, it never opens.” But when the women are alone, conversation flows. “The mouth, it stays open.”

There are ruminations here not just of gender strictures but also of parenthood, abandonment, love and the shared blood of heritage. “It’s a burning, hurting thing, this world,” she tells herself.

The film is so artfully composed that you’d swear it was the work of a more veteran director (though Stolevski has made many shorts). Nevena’s different iterations begin to feel more episodic than profound. But “You Won’t Be Alone” enchants in its novel perspective and in its sharp-shifting protagonist’s unquenchable curiosity. The witch, once so set in stereotype, has never felt so enthrallingly elastic.

M“你不会孤单”：Horror. Starring Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert and Anamaria Marinca. Directed by Goran Stolevski. (R. 108 minutes.) In theaters Friday, April 1.