The Witches

A dark comic fantasy based on Roald Dahl’s tale of a cabal of evil sorceresses plotting to rid the world of children.

  • Director

    Nicolas Roeg

  • With

    Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Bill Paterson, Brenda Blethyn

  • UK 1990. 91min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

The combination of Roeg, Roald Dahl and Jim Henson delivers something special with this deliciously nasty children’s fable. Huston is majestically evil as the grand high witch plotting to turn all the children into mice while Zetterling plays an unconventional grandmother who puffs on cigars and dispenses cautionary advice about the presence of occult forces.

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