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May 5, 2021 · which literally translates as “nature is a mother by birth, and a wicked stepmother by will”. What this means is that nature first gives birth to all of us, and then deliberately makes all of ...
Jun 26, 2017 · The wicked stepmother contains all that we fear and loathe in the feminine, a female devil whose diabolical nature and brutality frighten us. Unlike her male counterparts, the monsters and ...
Feb 3, 1989 · Wicked Stepmother: Directed by Larry Cohen. With Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, Lionel Stander. A mother-and-daughter pair of witches wreaks havoc on a suburban family.
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- Comedy, Fantasy
- Larry Cohen
- 1989-02-03
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The original plot cast Davis as the title character, a chain-smoking witch named Miranda, who has married Sam while his vegetarian daughter Jenny and son-in-law Steve are on vacation. They return to find their new stepmother has filled their refrigerator with meat and played havoc with their collection of herbs. To explain Davis' absence, the scrip...
Box office
Wicked Stepmother was released in the United States on February 3, 1989, and became a box-office bomb, grossing $43,749 in its opening weekend and $70,580 in North America on a budget of $5 million.
Critical response
A review in Fangoria lambasted Wicked Stepmother, stating that "this mind-boggingly awful comedy/fantasy offers no laughs, but does provide some of the creepiest moments of half-dead acting ever committed to film" and "emerges as the first unmitigated disaster from the usually reliable Cohen and a tarnish on the memory of Bette Davis". VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever gave the film one and a half bone out of four in its 1991 edition, but revised it to one later on, concluding that "Davis's...
Wicked Stepmother at IMDbWicked Stepmother at Rotten TomatoesTransforming into a cigarette--smoking black cat is just one of Bette Davis' evil tricks in this campy, fun-filled brew that mixes magic with mayhem and cost...
The Wicked Stepmother, the woman hostile to her stepchildren, is a perennial trope. Older Than Feudalism, she appears in legends and folklore around the world and is the villain of many a Fairy Tale . Psychologists hypothesize that she is an Archetypal Character devised by children as a means of channeling their negative feelings about their ...
Comedy. Transforming into a cigarette-smoking black cat is just one of Bette Davis' evil tricks in this campy, fun-filled brew that mixes magic with mayhem. Subtitles: English. Starring: Tom Bosley Colleen Camp Bette Davis Evelyn Keyes David Rasche Lionel Stander Susie Garrett Laurene Landon. Directed by: Larry Cohen. Wicked Stepmother. COMPANY.
