![]() The Witches, transplanted from its original Nordic and English setting to 1960s Alabama, recounts the delightfully morbid story of an unnamed Boy (Jahzir Bruno) who moves in with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) after the death of his parents. The Witches is an oddly literal adaptation, except when it’s a wild departure Despite the film’s quizzical efforts to blend them together, the two halves never cohere into something that makes much sense - or remotely justifies the strange execution. If you’re not sure these two stories go together, you’re not alone : The Witches isn’t sure either. ![]() Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markĪre they in a story where a young Black boy in the post-Jim Crow South confronts racism and ethnic hatred through the thinly veiled guise of a convention of kid-ocidal witches? Or are they in a macabre, modern-ish cautionary tale, one where boys can meet monsters and be forever altered at the whimsy of a delightfully unpredictable universe? ![]()
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