Robert Zemeckis directed and co-wrote the film which also stars Stanley Tucci as the hotel manager who is oblivious, yet suspicious, of the witches staying in his hotel.
THE WITCHES ROALD DAHL AGE MOVIE
The Witches will be the perfect Halloween movie for families since it can be classified as child-friendly horror. It's funny and from a child's point of view along with kid-friendly humor. The plot sounds dark but it truly is for children. The witches then pursued the grandma while searching for the kids. Grandma is not having any of that and she sets out to stop them. These 5 Activities Will Make The Night Of Halloween Just As Fun
The witches of course notice him listening and turn the grandson, and two other kids, into mice. The young grandson accidentally spies on the witches in a meeting and overhears them discussing their plan to turn all children into mice. Grandma and grandson go on a needed vacation and happen to stay at the same hotel where the witch coven is having their convention. Both have experinced some trauma becuase the boy is an orphan due to an accident. Octavia Spencer plays a very loving but very strong grandmother raising her sweet seven-year-old grandson. Hathaway is the Grand High Witch and leads the witches on their evil plans. The witches comes up with a plan to turn all kids into mice.
The Witches is arriving just in time for Halloween and will premiere on HBO MAX on October 22nd.Īnne Hathaway stars as the head of a coven of creepy witches who hate children and wants to rid the world of them. The family film has a plot that revolves around evil witches disliking children and your kids will totally love it. He is undeniably special" (Connolly, 104).Road Dahl's acclaimed children's novel The Witches is now a new movie featuring both Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer. "Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals (adults) squirm with displeasure. Real witches are exceedingly difficult to spot in the wild and dress in ordinary clothes, looking very much like ordinary people." Dahl's vital indicators for spotting a real witch include facts like they always wear gloves, they have no toes, are bald as boiled eggs and they have blue spit. "Don't be fooled by those witches with their black hats, black cloaks and broomsticks, though, those are not REAL WITCHES.
Dahl's The Witches centers on the experiences of a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the half-title page. Dahl's creation has also found itself taken of reading lists across schools in America for the possibility of turning kids to witchcraft with its perceived satanic themes and the fear of desensitising young minds to violence.įirst edition of Dahl's Whitbread Award-winning children's novel, illustrated by Quentin Blake. But neither of them is half as dangerous as a REAL WITCH'. On the other hand, a ghoul is always a male. But the fact remains that all witches are women. Possibly the newly planned film will redeem cinematic licence! Intriguingly it has also found itself at one time or another banned for perceived misogyny, as Dahl states that only women can be witches: 'I do not wish to speak badly about women,' the author writes. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, The Witches was also successfully dramatised on several occasions, most famously perhaps the 1990 film featuring Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, which featured a differing ending from that in the book (much to the author's chagrin). A classic dark tale from a master of the genre, the macabre menace only slightly mitigated by the target audience being children.
First edition, first impression 8vo illustrations by Quentin Blake publisher's boards, dust-jacket with wraparound artwork by Quentin Blake, a little chipped at corners with one small split and some slight creasing to top edge but otherwise very good with no fading to the spine.