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The Witches is a 1983 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country.
The Witches (also known as Roald Dahl's The Witches), is a 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1983 novel The Witches by Roald Dahl. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following The Witches (1990).
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 48 critics gave the film a positive review, and an average rating of 7.6/10. The critics consensus reads: "With a deliciously wicked performance from Anjelica Huston and imaginative puppetry by Jim Henson's creature shop, Nicolas Roeg's dark and witty movie captures the spirit of Roald Dahl's writing ...
The Wizard of Oz's Glinda proclaimed there are good witches and bad witches, and Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury) falls decidedly in the good witch camp.In this delightful children's fantasy ...
The first adaptation of J.K. Rowling's beloved book series centers around Harry Potter, a young boy who discovers on his 11th birthday that he comes from a world of witches and wizards. This movie ...
For the most part, Blake says evil movie witches — the kind who use spells to cast evil curses on people — really don't exist. But she adds that doing magic spells of any kind requires ...
The Witches of Eastwick The Widows of Eastwick is the final novel by John Updike , author of the Pulitzer -prize winning "Rabbit" series. First published in 2008 , it is a sequel to his 1984 novel The Witches of Eastwick .
In the book, Diana, a historian who is the daughter of witches, discovers a long-lost book, Ashmole 782, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Her discovery of the enchanted book draws attention to her ...