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Agnes Moorehead, Chloe Franks, Debbie Reynolds

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

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Directed by: Curtis Harrington

Release Date: January 1, 1971

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DVD Release Date: February 25, 2009

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  • webalina
    July 13, 2007
    webalina
    A surprisingly disturbing film, based on the Grimms fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. I was expecting a kiddie scary movie, but I was wrong. A wealthy widow, played by Shelley Winters in all her hammy glory, takes selected children from the local orphanage into her home for a Christm...( read more)as party. Christopher (Mark Lester of Oliver! fame) and Katie (Chloe Franks) were excluded because of bad behavior but sneak to the party anyway. Winters, grief-stricken and a little wacky and irrational from losing her daughter in an accident years before, kidnaps the children to replace her dead daughter. Katie is happy because she is being treated well, but Christopher, after reading the story Hansel and Gretel, decides that Winters is a witch who is trying to eat them, and sets out to stop her. If you know the story of H&G, you know the rest. But there is a difference. In the original story, it's made very clear to the children that the witch plans on eating them. In this film, Winters actually treats the kids very well, in effect adopting them, even if it is adoption by kidnapping. All the evidence that she is fatting them up for her next meal is all circumstantial, built up in these kid's evil imaginations. The smiles they gave each other after they burned Winters to death has stuck in my head for three days. Am I overreacting, or does anybody else think that these kids are budding serial killers?
  • dukeakasmudge
    October 16, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    Wonder who was crazier, Auntie Roo or the brother & sister?
  • TioBradski
    December 12, 2008
    TioBradski
    It's hard for a movie to meet the standard set by a title like that. This is campy horror with a period flavor and an old-style sense of the macabre, with the main attraction being Shelley Winters' trademark maternal weirdo.

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