The Witches
A recently orphaned young boy is taken to England by his grandmother. At their hotel, he stumbles across a convention of a coven of witches who plot to turn all the children of Britain into mice. Now he must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
4 July 1954, London, England, UK
April1952, England, UK
8 June 1955, Bergen, Norway
24 May 1925, Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
8 April 1920, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
20 February 1946, Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
12 June 1907, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
23 September 1964, Rochford, Essex, England, UK
1934, Hackney, London, England, UK
12 August 1924, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
19 August 1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 May 1943, Ranmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 June 1917, Marylebone, London, England, UK
22 November 1924, Asker, Norway
8 July 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
8 May 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 January 1964, Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England, UK
5 August 1951, Norway
18 August 1946, Cape Town, South Africa
November 25, 2013
Based on a Roald Dahl book, Nicholas Roeg's The Witches is a film surprisingly faithful to the creepiness of the original.
November 25, 2013
Real darkness seethes beneath the "Once upon a time" surface, mostly due to Henson's seemingly curious selection of the brilliant and audacious Roeg to direct.
March 26, 2009
The wizardry of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and a superbly over-the-top performance by Angelica Huston gives The Witches a good deal of charm and enjoyment.
November 25, 2013
What a lot of fun is The Witches. A few days before Labor Day, it is safe to say that it`s the most enjoyable movie of the summer.
June 24, 2016
...could care less about catering to a child's more delicate sensibilities.
November 25, 2013
It's not a film for small children. But for precocious first-graders with a warped sense of humor and an appetite for chills, thrills and spills, nothing could be better.
November 22, 2013
The Witches is a slow-to-get-going but ultimately entertaining yarn about a nasty coven conspiring to turn Britain's entire populace of single-digiters into mice.
November 25, 2013
Filled with grotesque witches and mouse stunts, this is a wild fantasy for both children and adults. Harry Potter was never like this.
November 26, 2012
A minor but very enjoyable Nicolas Roeg fairy tale.
November 25, 2013
The scenes of magic and mayhem are peppered with sly surprises, and Anjelica Huston plays the wildest wicked witch since Dorothy got back from Oz.
November 22, 2013
There are moments of genuine charm and solid invention, but it`s a film that doesn't believe enough in itself.
