1990 · fantasy · family · horror
The Witches
Directed by Nicolas Roeg1h 31m1990
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
Our read: The Witches (1990) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal fantasy · family · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured fantasy / family, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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