Name: The Witches
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Released: 1990

Synopsis

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against th

Year1990

CountryUnited Kingdom

DirectorNicolas Roeg

Cinematic DNA

I wanted to create a sense of fairytale dread, like what The Witches (1990) did, or what many of the old German fairy tales did, and a little bit like the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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