I Watched The Witches Through My Fingers So This Remake Looks Totally Fine to Me
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I’ve never actually “watched” The Witches, a movie my grandmother insisted on playing every time she’d babysit us. Why she purchased the dusty old VHS tape is even more unclear, as I couldn’t have been much older than five or six when she first made my siblings and I sit down with her and the then-decade-old horror flick. I can hear her still, telling me how pretty Angelica Huston was. I can’t remember much else, though. The entire movie happened between my fingers.
The Witches, which came out in 1990, is a horror movie. I know it is technically categorized as a children’s movie, but that does not make it any less of a horror movie. It’s scary! The warts, the weird humanoid creature Angelica Huston warps into, the way each new victim is turned into a rat and chased around that London (I think it was London?) hotel. Now the powers that be have remade it with a predictable new gloss and shine, common to most big-budget “reimaginings” that populate the cinema these days. Seems fine to me!