Village Voice
The best kind of homage or parody, the type that honors every thrill and quirk of the original while improving on it.
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The Love Witch
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a tribute to 1960s pulp novels and Technicolor melodramas.
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Less2016Rating: R13, Nudity & sex scenes120 minsUSA
ComedyHorror
The Love Witch | Reviews
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Variety
It's a lovingly crafted ode to little-loved cinema that's secure enough in its obscurantist nostalgia to make a sly joke of its occasional anachronisms...
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Time Out
It's cloaked in a retro wardrobe and soundtrack (much of the music, by Italy's Ennio Morricone, is sourced from '60s thrillers) but loaded with irony and a fluid sense of identity.
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The New York Times
The fear of female sexuality has been a staple of horror movies forever, but "The Love Witch" does more than simply subvert or parody the erotic underpinnings of the genre.
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Stuff
A wild, provocative ride, from backprojected opening to gleefully subversive ending...
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Screen Daily
Though a little too languid at two hours, The Love Witch is appropriately seductive.
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Los Angeles Times
Biller ... emerges as a feminist Russ Meyer skilled at fetishising archetypal images of narcissism with the exacting eye of a Douglas Sirk.
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Hollywood Reporter
Destined to be a cult classic, this sophomore effort by Anna Biller is a heady throwback to the American and European sexploitation horror films of the late '60s and early '70s.
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The Love Witch is now playing in 1 cinema in Australia. The Love Witch is available to stream in Australia now on Ritz at Home.