Tuesday 8 October 2019

MJOLNIR AT THE MOVIES EPISODE 27: THE WITCHES

An ideal film and topic for this month as we approach Halloween, as David and James are joined by Hanna to discuss one of her favourite films, The Witches (1990). She also brings with her a watchful child in order to ensure no witches are present at the time of recording or able to listen in later as we know from this film that a witch trying to listen to a child for any length of time would drive such a creature mad. A great piece of children's fiction by Roald Dahl adapted to the big screen and blessed by the incredible talents of Jim Henson himself in his last work for the big screen before he sadly died. How does the film hold up today and what messages and meaning does it have? Such tangents this episode include the 'blood libel', Tessa Dahl's revelation about Gary Glitter's paedophilia on This Is Your Life, the elites' penchant for child abuse, Esther Rantzen and (((children's charities))), folk tale and faery tale, and much more.... Spoiler warning as always.

 

 

3 comments:

  1. This is an interesting film and Nic Roeg an interesting director. Roald Dahl liked all the authors whose works Ive read, perhaps one reason I get on with his work so much.

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  2. I don't know if his studio has ever matched Mr Henson's work at its best since he died, but there has been some good work by the studio since then. I don't know of any others that are around who can match it, at least in practical effects.

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  3. It is not difficult to do non CGI practical effects but it is usually time consuming and labour intensive. And at Hensons standard it costs money. I was quite impressed with 'mis-drop(sept30 2019)since it was working along the same lines as the student feature 'Dark Star' (which is a great film). It was clever visually and having episodes as files is a good idea.

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