The Witches

About The Witches

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula.

Nicolas Roeg's The Witches is a 1990 fantasy horror film. The film is filed under based on children's book, transformation, grandparent grandchild relationship, and mouse.

Jasen Fisher appears as Luke Eveshim, Mai Zetterling as Helga Eveshim, Anjelica Huston as Miss Eva Ernst, and Charlie Potter as Bruno Jenkins. Released in May 1990, it runs 91 minutes.

The screenplay is by Allan Scott. Produced by Jim Henson Productions. The film began as a novel. It streams on Peacock Premium and Peacock Premium Plus in the United States.

Roald Dahl's The Witches, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe make useful companions to The Witches, all filed under halloween and hotel. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 1,437 votes and it carries a PG rating.