The Witches (1990 film)

Witches witches is a fantasy film released in 1990. It is based on the homonymous children's book by Roald Dahl.

Action

Witches exist, and they have only one goal: the elimination of all children that they can not stand by nature. Tired to remove a child after the other, the upper Witch ( Anjelica Huston ) devises a plan: In all Sweet Shops of England to give chocolate that is mixed with "Formula 86 Retard / Mausemutorium " - a potion of children in within two hours mice transformed.

But Grandma Helga - a Norwegian expert on witches - and her grandson Luke are random in the same hotel in England, where the witches conference takes place (disguised as an organization that aims to protect children from abuse ), on which the high - Grandmaster Witch their plan imagines. Luke has been hiding in the conference room to train his two white mice, when the witches unmask ( they take off their wigs, with which they are bald). Enlightened by his grandmother, he immediately recognizes who he has to do it.

The witches have lured a boy named Bruno Jenkins with the promise of chocolate and turn him into a mouse. Then discover and transform them also Luke. But the boys retain their human mind. Ensure reach Grandma Helga's room and take the fight against the witches. Luke manages to steal a vial of the potion and pour it into the soup for the gala dinner of the witches. At the end of the witches are transformed into mice and killed by the hotel staff, which England is cleansed of witches. But a good witch (the former assistant to the top witch) has survived, Luke turns back into a boy and promises to do the same with Bruno. Luke and Helga decide to go to America and to fight the witches.

Connection error

Right after Bruno was turned into a mouse, running a real mouse with medium brown fur from the clothes lying on the ground. The later animated, talking mouse for Bruno, however, is dark gray. Ms. Ernst, the Upper Witch says in the meeting room that all witches BEFORE the evening banquet come to her suite, and a potion and the outstanding large sum of money to pick up. This happens after is not.

Awards

The film was among others in 1991 for the BAFTA Award ( Best Make -Up, Christine Beveridge ) and nominated for the Hugo ( best dramatic presentation).

Reviews

  • " Imaginative staged and well played fantasy adventure that appeals in addition to its exciting witty plot also the fears of children in the encounter with death and dark powers. " - " Lexicon of international film " (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1994
1990 in film Screenplay Jim Henson Film score Stanley Myers Bill Paterson (actor) The Witches (book) Quentin Blake Walkabout (Film) The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) Eureka (1983 film) Aria (Film)
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