“Wouldst thou like the taste of butter?” A24 is giving The Witch fans a very good reason to say yes. The studio is celebrating the horror film’s 10th anniversary with a Black Phillip butter dish, turning one of Robert Eggers’ most memorable scenes into an oddly appropriate kitchen collectible.
A24 teased the release on October 26 with the devilish goat’s famous question and announced that The Witch 10 Year Collection would drop the following day. The dish is sculpted in the likeness of Black Phillip, the ominous black goat who becomes central to Thomasin’s fate in the 2015 film. It’s a wonderfully strange piece of merchandise for anyone who has ever watched The Witch and found themselves thinking that what the movie really needed was a place to keep their butter.
The collectible takes its inspiration from the film’s unforgettable final encounter between Thomasin and the Devil. After enduring a miserable existence with her family on an isolated New England farm, Thomasin is offered a different future. Speaking through Black Phillip, the Devil asks whether she would like the taste of butter, a pretty dress, and the chance to live deliciously.
It’s a deceptively simple offer. Thomasin has spent the film trapped in a world defined by religious anxiety, deprivation, and suspicion. The Devil doesn’t promise her a throne or some grand supernatural power. He offers her freedom from the life that has left her miserable.
Butter might seem like an amusingly mundane temptation, but the detail has historical roots. Accounts of early modern European witchcraft beliefs sometimes described the Devil offering material goods to those he sought to tempt. A scholarly analysis of The Witch notes that historical testimonies included promises of gold and butter, connecting the film’s famous exchange to older ideas about temptation and worldly desire.
That history gives A24’s kitchen accessory a little more significance than a simple reference to a memorable movie quote. The butter dish turns the Devil’s offer into an everyday household object, letting fans keep a piece of the film on the table without actually signing away their souls. At least, we assume that last part isn’t required.
Released in 2015, The Witch helped establish Robert Eggers as a distinctive voice in modern horror. Set in 17th-century New England, the film follows a Puritan family whose isolation and religious fears intensify after their infant son disappears. As suspicion falls on teenage daughter Thomasin, the family’s faith begins to fracture, and the possibility of something genuinely supernatural becomes harder to ignore.
The film’s final moments remain its defining sequence. Black Phillip’s offer gives Thomasin a choice between the oppressive world she knows and an uncertain new existence. The promise of living deliciously speaks to the ordinary pleasures she has been denied.
Now, A24 has found a way to bring that temptation into the kitchen. The Black Phillip butter dish is part of the studio’s The Witch 10 Year Collection, with the official A24 Shop serving as the place to check for the anniversary merchandise. Pricing and current availability should be confirmed on the product listing.
For horror fans planning their holiday shopping, this is a particularly fitting gift for the person who quotes Black Phillip at every opportunity. It’s also an excellent way to make a dinner party a little more unsettling. Just place it on the table, offer your guests some butter, and see who remembers the line.
After all, a pretty dress is one thing. Fresh bread with butter is another. If Black Phillip is asking, the correct answer is probably yes.
