Celebrating tonight Sat.1 at 8:15 p.m the free TV premiere of a relaunched fantasy children’s book classic: witches witches with Anne Hathaway. In it, a boy finds out about a secret meeting of witches and is turned into a mouse. Nevertheless, he tries to thwart the diabolical plans of the child haters. The first adaptation of the story in 1990 disturbed a whole generation of unsuspecting children. 30 years later, the film received a remake in 2020, which is now being shown on television for the first time.
Witches witches on TV: How to traumatize children with fantasy films
If you were a kid of the 90’s and watched the fantasy adventure The Witches by Nicolas Roeg, you will know it yourself; Otherwise find someone who is now 30 to 40 years old and have it confirmed to you: This film was the one pure horror. What not only the mouse transformation, but above all the abysmal witch makeup was to thank for when Anjelica Huston’s Great Witch showed her true form. The scene in which she pulled the human skin from her face was burned into countless delicate children’s minds and caused nightmares for weeks later.
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Witches Witches (1990) starring Anjelica Houston
British author Roald Dahl created the beloved children’s books based on films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and BFG – Big Friendly Giant. However, it was his work Hexen witchen that, thanks to the 90s “fantasy comedy” that has meanwhile become cult, became popular scariest family entertainment of all time heard. Something that the frightened boys and girls of back then could only appreciate a few decades later as an achievement of excellent make-up artists.
The 2020 fantasy remake by Robert Zemeckis, shown on TV today, is aware of this nightmare legacy. Instead of copying the look of the witches of the time, choose this remake one new scary theme for Anne Hathaway and her magical followers. Whether the reinterpretation has the potential to traumatize a new generation of children is up to you to judge tonight.
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