Her doctor advises they spend the summer by the sea.
On Luke's ninth birthday, Helga falls ill with diabetes. While playing outside in a treehouse, Luke is approached by a witch trying to lure him with a snake and a chocolate bar, so he stays in his treehouse for protection and the witch goes away. Helga says her childhood friend, Erica, fell victim to a witch and was cursed to spend the rest of her life trapped inside a painting, aging gradually until finally disappearing a few years earlier.Īfter Luke's parents are killed in a car accident, Helga becomes Luke's legal guardian and they move to England. To a witch, clean children stink of dog's droppings the dirtier the children, the less likely she is to smell them. Helga tells Luke that real witches, unlike ordinary women have claws instead of fingernails which they hide by wearing gloves, bald heads which they cover by wearing wigs that give them rashes, square feet with no toes which they hide by wearing sensible shoes, a purple tinge in their pupils and a powerful sense of smell which they use to sniff out children. Plot ĭuring a vacation with his grandmother Helga in Norway, seven-year-old American boy, Luke Eveshim, is warned about witches, female demons who immensely hate children and use various methods to destroy or transform them. Even though Dahl disliked The Witches for its ending's differing from his source material, the film was very well received by critics, and it developed a cult following over the years. The film was produced by Jim Henson Productions for Lorimar Film Entertainment as the last theatrical film to be produced by Lorimar before the company was merged into Warner Bros. Based on the 1983 book of the same name by Roald Dahl, the story features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women, and a boy and his grandmother who must find a way to foil their plans.
The Witches is a 1990 dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jim Henson and starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher.
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