The witches by roald dahl7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The story uses the moral that children should "never talk to strangers", but enhances it with the ingenious and disturbing premise of witches being responsible for evil acts towards children. This film is enormous fun, punctuated by offbeat performances (Huston as the Grand High Witch of All the World is terrifying and funny in equal measure) and splendid puppet work. He is captured by them and metamorphosised into a mouse, but still comes up with a plot to wipe them out. Whilst there, Luke uncovers the fact that the RSPCC meeting in the hotel is actually a front for a society of witches. ![]() Grandma falls seriously ill and is advised to go to the English seaside to recover, accompanied by Luke. Pretty soon, she has filled his mind with tales of witchery and caution. ![]() She lives in Norway and is something of a witch expert. The story finds a young boy named Luke moving in with his Grandma following the death of his parents. Adults just assume that kids don't have the level of wit and sophistication to appreciate sly and sarcastic humour, but here that theory is challenged with a vengeance and this film proves itself to be a wickedly entertaining, knowingly cruel pantomime. ![]() The Witches is the rarest thing you'll ever see: a black comedy for children. ![]()
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