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- The Witch (2016) Director: Robert Eggers. From its first moments, The Witch strands us in a hostile land. We watch (because that’s all we can do, helplessly) as puritan patriarch William (Ralph Ineson) argues stubbornly with a small council, thereby causing his family’s banishment from their “New England” community.
- Suspiria (1977) Director: Dario Argento. Dario Argento’s 1977 Suspiria is the director’s best-loved movie, but it’s also his most atypical work. Unlike the rest of his peak-era filmography (its direct, uneven 1980 sequel Inferno excepted), it’s not strictly a giallo—the lurid murder mysteries Italian directors churned out in the mid-20th century—but instead an abstraction of the genre, removing the procedural narrative layer to replace it with pure aesthetic wonder.
- Spirited Away (2001) Director: Hayao Miyazaki. What is it about Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away that makes it one of his greatest—if not the greatest—films he has ever made?
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) Director: Victor Fleming. You can’t exactly put together a list of witch movies without the most iconic witch in the history of cinema, can you?
- Spirited Away (2001) Stream now on HBO Max. When looking at the best scary witch movies, people don't always think about Hayao Miyazaki. However, Yubaba in Spirited Away is an evil witch that surpassed many live-action horror movies.
- Stardust (2007) Stream now on HBO Max. The best evil witches are the ones who want something personal. In the vein of Snow White, where the witch wanted to remain the fairest in the land, the witch in Stardust wanted her beauty and youth back.
- Black Sunday (1961) Stream now on Kanopy. Black Sunday came out in 1961 and had a master of horror behind the camera in Mario Bava. The film proves that the classics can often create terror just as impressively as contemporary gore-fests.
- The House Of The Devil (2009) Stream now on Peacock & Shudder. Mainstream movie audiences are finally discovering that Ti West is a name to keep an eye on.
Almost as if in response to the current wave of witch films and TV shows, Heather Greene’s Bell, Book and Camera: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television (2018) is perhaps the first academic monograph which traces the witch’s onscreen history and trajectory throughout the entirety of this recorded history. In the book, Greene focuses on films which feature a ...
Apr 29, 2024 · A 17th-century printing of the infamous medieval witch-hunting manual Malleus Maleficarum, which inspired Häxan creator Benjamin Christensen (left); Christensen appears as Satan in the 1922 ...
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Jun 21, 1996 · The Witches of Salem (Les Sorcières de Salem) December 8, 1958. Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality. Discover new TV shows and movies tagged as 'witch hunt' and where you ...
Oct 12, 2022 · 50. The Blair Witch Project (1999) Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) and Blair Witch (2016) As the first witch-central and "found-footage" film to kill the box office, The Blair Witch Project is the low-budget hit to become a cult classic. So much so that the film was in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Top Budget: Box Office Ratio."
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Feb 17, 2015 · The film inspires this 24 Frames gallery of the most iconic witches from movie history. The Last Witch Hunter. Year: 2015. Vin Diesel plays an immortal warrior hunting down rogue witches who hide among us in everyday society. When the Queen Witch is resurrected, ol’ Vin is forced to do the last thing he wants: join forces with a young witch ...
