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The coming-of-age aspect and a young woman’s discovery of her powers puts Gretel & Hansel in the conversation with Robert Eggers’ The Witch (2015). But the difference between the two films is ...
In director Osgood Perkins’ gorgeous third horror film, flipping the names in the traditional title to “Gretel & Hansel” is no coincidence, and there’s little question of who is deserving ...
Gretel & Hansel, one of the best-loved horror films of 2020, was released exactly one year ago today. On a personal note, it was the last feature film I saw in a theater before Coronavirus made ...
So perhaps the best one can say about “Gretel & Hansel,” Oz Perkins’ revision of the Brothers Grimm tale, is that it is absolutely not a typical January horror movie. More ominous than ...
If only there was something that could make bearable another hour or so of this art-film horror. Forget the popcorn, just give us ‘shrooms, man. “Gretel & Hansel” is as visually arresting as ...
“It’s awfully faithful to the original story, it’s got really only three principal characters: Hansel, Gretel, and the Witch. We tried to find a way to make it more of a coming-of-age stor ...
But there’s also a scary movie subgenre that aims to weaponize these fond memories into something sinister: analog horror. Let’s explore the eerie, static-filled world of CRT TVs, emergency ...
Horror Gretel & Hansel Director Teases Film Could Launch Shared Dark Fairytale Universe The tale of Hansel and Gretel has been famous for centuries, thanks to the Brothers Grimm, with […] ...
“[The rating] doesn’t affect the sophistication of the horror in Gretel & Hansel” Perkins assured me in a recent interview. At the same time, the filmmaker is indeed targeting younger ...
If only there was something that could make bearable another hour or so of this art-film horror. Forget the popcorn, just give us ‘shrooms, man. “Gretel & Hansel” is as visually arresting as ...