The Witches
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1990
1h 31m
PG
English
Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Family
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The Witches
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
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Cast
Luke Eveshim
Helga Eveshim
Miss Eva Ernst
Bruno Jenkins
Mr Stringer
Mr Jenkins
Mrs Jenkins
Miss Irvine
Beatrice
Dora
Elsie
Henrietta
Janice
Marlene
Millie
Nicola
Luke's Father
Luke's Mother
Erica's Father
Erica's Mother
Erica
Head Chef
Witch Chef
Lady #1
Lady #2
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg
Written By: Roald Dahl (Novel), Allan Scott (Screenplay)
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AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS/10 3 years ago
[5.8/10] I don’t like to play the “Who is this for?” card. It can stack the deck against films that do something unique or otherwise out of the ordinary. There’s room for films that don’t fit into traditional boxes, even if the specific audience they’re after isn’t immediately clear.
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MasterCreate97
CONTAINS SPOILERS/10 5 years ago
Honesty, i'm kinda torn on how I feel about the film adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl Book "The Witches". On the one hand, The makeup for the witches especially the Grand High Witch oozes with creepiness even to this very day. The combination of real trained mice and puppetry mice wo More
CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Young "Luke" (an enthusiastic Jasen Fisher) lives with his grandmother "Helga" (May Zetterling) after being mysteriously orphaned. His grandmother has made him worldly wise to the ways of witches, and so he is alert to the antics of "Eva" (Angelica Huston) when he and his ever-hungry new friend "Bru More
Davy Endgame X
/10 2 years ago
7/10
No wonder this fabulous movie has become
a British cult classic.
It's so naughty and dark
and never could be recreated in such a way today,
and that makes me sad for the times we live in.
The pc,woke,sjw
cancel culture snowflake era.
Just watch
The 2020 retelling
of this movie if yo More
No wonder this fabulous movie has become
a British cult classic.
It's so naughty and dark
and never could be recreated in such a way today,
and that makes me sad for the times we live in.
The pc,woke,sjw
cancel culture snowflake era.
Just watch
The 2020 retelling
of this movie if yo More
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