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Oct 22, 2020 · The Witches: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Octavia Spencer, Brian Bovell. A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
- Robert Zemeckis
- 976
- 2 min
The Witches (also known as Roald Dahl's The Witches ), is a 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1983 novel The Witches by Roald Dahl. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following The Witches (1990).
- $26.9 million
The Witches is a 1990 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Nicolas Roeg from a screenplay by Allan Scott, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling. The plot features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and follows a boy and his grandmother, who must find ...
- $15.3 million
- Stanley Myers
- $11 million
- Mark Shivas
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The Witches is a 1983 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The witches are ruled by the vicious ...
- 208
- Roald Dahl
- 27 October 1983
- Jonathan Cape
Oct 23, 2020 · After making clear her intention to turn all children in the world into mice, the witches find a hiding Charlie, and the tension and striking imagery is pure nightmare fuel for anyone under 12 (and most people older than that too). Hathaway drives a fun and yet honestly threatening sequence that the film struggles to match in its second half.
Awards The Witches Jump to Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA (5) Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (1) BAFTA Awards (1) Fantasporto (1) Hugo Awards (1) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (1) National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (1)
Oct 22, 2020 · Reimagining Roald Dahl's 1983 children's novel for a modern audience, The Witches tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Jahzir Kadeem Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Octavia Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she ...
