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1 H 27 minutes Resume A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil directors Oz Perkins Release Date 2020 scores 3075 vote Free Marienka a Janko: Les hrôzu diesem hotel. Alex has been gone for so long now he has two sons ????. The new mutants been coming out for the past 2 years. Thx for shocking me! afterall, they're twins. Ahh! I caught that reference to the old Looney Tunes shorts. Gretel & Hansel Theatrical release poster Directed by Oz Perkins Produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Fred Berger Screenplay by Rob Hayes Based on Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm Starring Sophia Lillis Sam Leakey Charles Babalola Jessica De Gouw Alice Krige Music by Robin Coudert Cinematography Galo Olivares Edited by Josh Ethier Julia Wong Production company Orion Pictures Automatik Entertainment Bron Creative Distributed by United Artists Releasing Release date January?31,?2020 Running time 87 minutes Country Canada [1] [2] United States [2] Ireland [2] Language English Budget $5 million [3] Box office $20. 5 million [4] [5] Gretel & Hansel (also known as Gretel & Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale) is a 2020 dark fantasy horror film based on the German folklore tale " Hansel and Gretel " by the Brothers Grimm. The film is directed by Oz Perkins, and produced by Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Dan Kagan, with a screenplay by Rob Hayes. Sophia Lillis and Sam Leakey portray the title characters, alongside Charles Babalola, Jessica De Gouw, and Alice Krige. The story follows Gretel and Hansel as they enter a dark wood in order to find work and food, and then stumble upon the home of a witch. It was announced in October 2018 that Orion Pictures in Gretel & Hansel, a film adaptation based on the German folklore Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, with Perkins directing the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hayes. At the same time, Lillis was set to star in the film, with other actors being added shortly after, and filming taking place between November and December 2018 in Dublin, Ireland. Gretel & Hansel was released in North America on January 31, 2020 by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing. The film had grossed $18 million worldwide and received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with praise for its visuals and cinematography, as well as the horror elements and acting, but criticism for the film's pacing. Plot [ edit] A baby that everyone in the village found to be the most precious falls terribly ill one winter. Her father took her to see an enchantress, who removed the illness but left a power within the girl. As she grew older, people in the village went to the girl because she had premonitions of the future. Because she knew everything ended in death, she used her power to kill people, including her father. The child was taken into the woods to be left alone, but she lured other children to a grim fate. After their father's death, teenage Gretel ( Sophia Lillis) and her younger brother Hansel (Sam Leakey) are going to meet a man about a job as a housekeeper. Gretel meets with the man, but he makes his true intentions clear when he asks Gretel if she is still a virgin. The two leave without a job. At night, the siblings' mother rebukes Gretel for not doing what she had to do to get a job and help provide for them. She tells Gretel that she and Hansel must leave because there is no room left in the house. The mother goes as far as threatening to hack Gretel to bits if they don't leave immediately. The siblings flee their home and find a hut to sleep in for the night. Suddenly, a ghoulish man arises and lets out a horrible scream and makes the kids run away. He chases them outside and attacks Hansel. Before he can get to Gretel, he is killed with an arrow to the head. A hunter ( Charles Babalola) rescues the siblings and takes them into his home for the night and directs them toward others who can provide them with food and work. The following morning, the siblings go outside to forage and seek work. They get frustrated when they find nothing until Gretel spots some mushrooms. They turn out to be "magic" mushrooms that cause the two to laugh hysterically. Hansel then wanders until he finds a house that has a cake smell coming from it. Gretel follows as she hears what sounds like a girl's voice beckoning her, seen alongside The Beautiful Child being taken away in a carriage. Gretel tries to stop Hansel from going inside, but he goes anyway and appears to be taken by someone. Gretel tries to start a fire to break inside, but she is greeted by Holda ( Alice Krige), the woman living inside. She invites the siblings inside for a meal and allows them to sleep there in exchange for work. Holda has Hansel go out into the woods to practice his skills with an axe, while she keeps Gretel at the house. Hansel enjoys his time there because they have plenty of food, but Gretel becomes suspicious of Holda's intentions. Gretel starts to see a vision of the Enchantress and hears children's voices guiding her somewhere, but before she finds out what's going on, she wakes up in her bed. While Hansel goes out, Holda shows Gretel how to tap into her powers as a witch. Gretel goes into the woods and manages to use her power to bring a tree branch near her so she can take a fruit. Meanwhile, Hansel also sees a vision of the Enchantress and spots a satanic carving on a nearby tree. Hansel starts to grow suspicious of Holda. Later in the night, Gretel makes her way into Holda's cellar where Hansel is sitting in a trance. Suddenly, the floor fills with goo, and a younger witch emerges, emptying buckets of guts onto the table before turning them into food, the same that Holda fed the siblings. The next day, Gretel sits with Holda, who eats something and pulls a long strand of a child's hair out of her mouth. Gretel pleads with Holda to let Hansel go, but she refuses. Through a series of visions, she tells Gretel the truth about the story of the Beautiful Child: Holda was the girl's mother, and she resented her daughter after she killed her father, and she left the girl in the woods of her own accord. However, the child lingered in Holda's mind, promising to share her powers with her if she trusted the darkness. With that, Holda devoured her other children and took on the disguise of an old woman to appear friendly and lure other children to their fates. Holda straps Gretel to a table in the cellar as she assumes her youthful appearance to lure Hansel into a cage so she can cook him. Gretel manages to use her powers to send a staff toward Holda, impaling her to the wall over the flames. Her body catches fire, and she cries in agony until she is dead, breaking the trance on Hansel and letting Gretel go free. Gretel decides to stay behind at the house while sending Hansel on his way with a horse. The horse brings him back to his old house, where his mother no longer stays. Gretel then sees the spirits of the dead children emerge from the trees, now free at last. However, her fingers turn black just like Holda's did, but her voiceover states that she will be brave and trust in herself. Cast [ edit] Sophia Lillis as Gretel, a 16-year old girl and Hansel's older sister. [6] Sam Leakey as Hansel, Gretel's 8-year old brother. Leakey is making his acting debut. [7] Charles Babalola as The Hunter, a young man who helps Gretel and Hansel early in the story. [8] Alice Krige as Holda / The Witch, a terrifying and powerful evil witch who lives in the shadows of the dark wood and kidnaps Gretel and Hansel. [7] Jessica De Gouw as Young Holda / the Witch Production [ edit] In October 2018, the Hollywood Reporter wrote that Orion Pictures had started developing a film adaptation of the German folklore tale Hansel and Gretel, with Oz Perkins directing a screenplay he had co-written with Rob Hayes, and Sophia Lillis starring as the lead character. [9] Sinister producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and The Autopsy of Jane Doe producer Fred Berger, partners at Automatik Entertainment, were announced as producers, with Sandra Yee Ling and Macdara Kelleher as executive producers. [10] Hayes eventually received sole screenplay credit. In November 2018, Charles Babalola was cast as the Hunter, a new character who helps Gretel and Hansel navigate the woods. [11] In April 2019, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw, and Sam Leakey joined the cast, with Leakey making his acting debut. [10] Perkins explained in an interview that the title was changed because this version focuses on Gretel: "It's awfully faithful to the original story. It's got really only three principal characters: Hansel, Gretel, and the Witch. We tried to find a way to make it more of a coming of age story. I wanted Gretel to be somewhat older than Hansel, so it didn't feel like two 12-year-olds ? rather a 16-year-old and an 8-year-old. There was more of a feeling like Gretel having to take Hansel around everywhere she goes, and how that can impede one's own evolution, how our attachments and the things that we love can sometimes get in the way of our growth. " [12] Principal photography on the film began on November 9, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland, and wrapped in December 2018. [13] Additional filming and reshoots started in January 2019 in Langley, British Columbia [ disambiguation needed], Canada. Release [ edit] The film was released on January 31, 2020, by United Artists. [7] Reception [ edit] Box office [ edit] In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside The Rhythm Section, and was projected to gross $4 million to $7 million from 3, 000 theaters in its opening weekend. [14] [3] The film made $2. 3 million on its first day (including $475, 000 from Thursday night previews). It debuted to $6. 1 million, finishing fourth. [15] Critical response [ edit] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 63% based on 81 reviews, with an average rating of 6. 16/10. The site's critics consensus reads: " Gretel & Hansel ' s rich visuals satisfy, even if this adaptation of a classic fairytale gets a little lost in the woods on the storytelling front. " [16] On Metacriti

January 30, 2020 9:00AM PT This fairy tale riff attempts to bring arthouse horror sensibilities to the multiplex, with mixed results. Aside from the odd Oscar contender expanding into wide release, January is not known as a fertile period for film releases, and in particular, the schlocky January horror film has practically become its own genre by now. So perhaps the best one can say about “ Gretel & Hansel, ” Oz Perkins’ revision of the Brothers Grimm tale, is that it is absolutely not a typical January horror movie. More ominous than exciting, more bleak than violent, and inspired more by Robert Eggers and Dario Argento than anything in the Hammer and Blumhouse canons, “ Gretel & Hansel ” is a stylish, impressive-looking attempt to bring some arthouse horror sensibilities to the multiplex, under cover of a PG-13 fairy tale riff. It’s not entirely successful at doing so ? in fact, it’s often kind of a mess, especially when it comes to the inexplicable revelations of its third act ? but at least credit the filmmakers for having higher ambitions than the film’s release schedule would indicate. With “It’s” Sophia Lillis in the lead role, “Gretel & Hansel” has switched the order of those titular names for a reason. In this version, Gretel is a diaphanous, wise-eyed 16-year-old, and her brother Hansel (Sammy Leakey) is a cute but helpless eight-year-old whom she’s been tasked with protecting. Set in a geographically unspecified storybook realm ? British accents, like modern idioms, cycle in and out of usage ? these two have been left to fend for themselves after their father dies and their mother slips into a deprivation-related madness, ordering her children off to the woods. (“Dig yourselves some pretty little graves, and dig one for your mother too, ” she offers as valedictory advice. ) The two siblings find the wider world wildly unforgiving: Gretel’s reptilian potential employer at an inn asks if she’s “kept her maidenhood, ” and a quick night’s sleep in an abandoned home leads to an attack and a chase from a zombielike ghoul. (This latter scene ? like Lillis’ sometimes intrusive voice-over narration ? feels like it must have been added late in the development process, as it’s the only time the film will indulge in straight B-movie action and jump scares. ) Saved by a kindly huntsman (Charles Babalola), the two children are directed toward a distant convent, far off into the woods. Lillis plays Gretel with a hushed intensity, letting her words and her gaze trail off in unexpected directions, and it’s quickly suggested that she possesses some sort of second-sight, experiencing vivid dreams and premonitions of hooded figures stalking the thick, foggy forest around them. After much wandering, complaints of hunger, and a shared psychedelic experience after eating some mushrooms, the two children come upon a surprisingly modern A-frame house in a clearing: inside, a giant banquet has been left out for no one in particular. Living here is the mysterious Holda (a delightfully creepy Alice Krige). A sharp-tongued, elderly crafter of various cold-pressed juices, she regards Hansel with obvious intentions ? sniffing his hair and practically licking her lips as she encourages him to eat more and more ? and Gretel with much more nebulous ones. The two stay there for longer and longer, continuing to enjoy Holda’s mysterious bounty, as Gretel’s dreams turn ever more menacing, and Holda starts to worm her way under Gretel’s skin. Mostly devoid of humor aside from one very surprising one-liner at a climactic moment (you’ll know it when you see it), the film, scripted by Rob Hayes, has some genuinely promising ideas in mind, at times prodding around the edges of a full-on feminist re-imagining of the fairy tale witch. But it never manages to reconcile its deeper interests with the need to hit some of the more obvious genre paces. The film certainly looks nice, with a wealth of eye-catching compositions: the camera always finds the most disorienting possible perspective as the two children pass through the forest; cinematographer Galo Olivares imbues Holda’s house with an amber glow that is simultaneously warm and sickly; composer Rob’s score leans heavily on Goblin-style synths; and production designer Jeremy Reed splits the difference between the antique and the modern with effectively unsettling results. The problem is that so many of its virtues feel compromised. At 87 minutes, it feels either too long or too short, returning to its more ominous imagery often enough that the impact starts to dull, but never properly digging into some of the richer veins it begins to tap. Even considering the source material, it is at times almost overwhelmingly grim ? though it doesn’t contain much in the way of upfront gore or violence, the fact that this film skated by with a PG-13 rating while the likes of “Marriage Story” and “Rocketman” were recently saddled with an R should give critics of MPAA standards much to discuss ? which only makes its pulled punches in the finale more obvious and unsatisfying. And for all of the care that went into its look and its sound, the world of the film never feels more than halfway formed; in the rush to tie up its narrative loose ends, it leaves its more intriguing thematic ones hanging. In “Last and First Men, ” Tilda Swinton is the literal voice of the future: a disembodied narrator from the hyper-evolved “eighteenth species” of humanity, calmly but desolately reaching out to us from a world some way past 2, 000, 000, 000 A. D. 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