# The Witches (1990)

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**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Family, Horror
**Directed by**: Nicolas Roeg
**Written by**: Allan Scott
**Starring**: Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Anjelica Huston, Charlie Potter, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson

> *Saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy they've turned into a mouse!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Summer England. A damp hotel lobby yields to a child’s hushed breath against frosted glass.

Luke watches witches in human form, their gloves twitching like spiders. Grandmother Helga listens, then patrols the halls with a rolling pin wrapped in newspaper.

Roeg shoots fairy tale as fever dream.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, playful

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