‘The Witches’ are Coming, but It’s Missing the Nostalgia for Me

Okay, so I’m just going to hit the ground running with this one. If y’all seen my reviews, y’all know witches (and other magic-users) are my favorite fantasy/horror being/creature/monster. So, you would think having the trailer drop for the remake of Roald Dahl’s The Witches would have me excited….oh boy, let’s  get into this… The New Grand High Witch Courtesy of Syfy Wire The trailer for 2020 The Witches dropped, and it won’t be a long wait to actually see it, as the trailer revealed that the movie will hit the HBO Max streaming service later this month on October 22. Now, with that out of the way, here’s what the trailer showed us. The movie’s main protagonist is a young Black boy (who apparently will grow up to be Chris Rock, as that is his adult voice telling this story) going to live with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) after the death of his mother. His grandmother works to cheer him up and takes him on a vacation (I’m sorta guessing here simply based on having watched the original). However, they just so happen to be vacationing at the same hotel as a meeting of witches with the Grand High Witch herself being played by Anne Hathaway. The Grand High Witch tells the other witches of her plan to rid the world of children, and our protagonist finds out and is unfortunately turned into a mouse. We see some hijinks ensue before the trailer closes, and that about it.

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The trailer didn’t reveal too much beside the three big names of the mov…