The Witches (1990)
- Directed by
- Nicolas Roeg
- Genre
- fantasy film, comedy film, horror film, children's film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 1,377 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An orphaned boy and his grandmother discover that a group of evil witches are plotting to turn all children into mice. They try to stop the witches grand plan by infiltrating their secret meeting at a seaside hotel.
darkly whimsicalplayfulcreepysuspensefulchildlike wonderominousquirkyfantastical
What happens
The Witches is a 1990 dark fantasy film directed by Nicolas Roeg from a screenplay by Allan Scott and based on Roald Dahl's novel of the same name. The film stars Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling and concerns evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and follows an orphaned boy and his grandmother, who must find a way to foil their plot of ridding the world of children. It is the last film project executive producer Jim Henson worked on before his death, with Jim Henson Productions co-producing the film and Jim Henson's Creature Shop designing and building the prosthetics for the titular characters and animatronic rats and mice that were used interchangeably with real mice. Filming took place in Norway and England from April to August of 1988. The film's release was delayed following the dissolution of its theatrical distributor Lorimar Film Entertainment. The Witches was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on May 25, 1990, and in the United States on August 24, by Warner Bros. The film was also a box-office failure, grossing $15.3 million on an $11 million budget. Although Dahl disliked its differences from the source material, namely the ending, The Witches received positive reviews from critics and developed a cult following over the years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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