2013 · fantasy · horror · action
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Directed by Tommy Wirkola1h 28m2013
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.
Our read: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal fantasy · horror · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme fantasy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
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