Okay I know this time of year my entire dash goes nuts with Hocus Pocus and Nightmare Before Christmas and whatever else but am I the only one who spent their childhood being delightfully pants-shittingly terrified of THE WITCHES?
Check this:
- Anjelica Huston is the grand high witch and she is fuckin scary as hell
- It’s based on a book by Roald Dahl man that guy wrote some really fucked up amazing shit I fuckin love him
- The effects are by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
- It’s about an actual witches convention like they’re having a gathering in a hotel ballroom
- People get turned into mice and sure it looks kinda cheesy now but when I was a kid it was SO SCARY like even more scary than the 80s-style hairdos all these extras are wearing
- Then the hero kid has to save the day while he’s a fucking mouse, it’s like Ratatouille but with like 90% more attempted murder
The Witches. Anjelica Huston. It’s so weird, you should definitely watch it.
this movie made me freak out over a painting we have of a little girl in a cottage. like i was like THE WITCHES DID THIS TO YOU
OMG DIRECTOR’S CUT? IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO? HOW DID I MISS THIS????
I want to watch this movie but when I was a little kid and I read the original book there was this scene where a bunch of waiters and chefs spit on someone's food
just this whole fucking scene of people spitting on someone's food
and then serving it to that unknowing person
because the person had complained about the food
it had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the story, it was not talked about at any point by the rest of the characters, and it's a perfect example of exactly the kind of petty, anvilicious punishment of pet-peeve strawmans that made Roald Dahl unreadable for me even as a kid
Also it almost made me puke.
so I guess my point is, is the food-spitting scene in the movie
because if the food-spitting scene is in the movie you couldn't pay me enough to watch the damn thing
