The Love Witch

Now, I will say the remake of The Body Snatchers from the 1970s, the ending scene of Donald Sutherland, oh, man, that still creeps me out.

We also have Jennifer's Body, The Love Witch, The Menu.

I enjoyed The Menu.

Again, more psychological.

So today's film is a film from 2016.

It's called The Love Witch.

This film stars Samantha Robinson.

I really didn't know much about her until I saw this film.

as a tarot deck coming to life maybe there's some things that I missed and I'd like to go back and take a look I think it's a good film you have to understand where it's coming from because I think some people might even be offended by some of the dialogue but you have to just keep in mind that it's a parody and yeah I'm willing to give it a second chance

I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece, but I do think it's a very impressive movie functioning on a lot of different levels.

So that's our review of The Love Witch.

And we'll be back tomorrow with

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The Love Witch, though, I mean, also glamour magic embodied that whole film setup is crazy.

Yeah.

You know, what's funny is I just watched The Witches of Eastwick a couple of nights ago, and I have not seen that movie since I was like a kid.

Why don't you introduce what we're covering today?

We are covering 2016's The Love Witch.

All right.

Love is in the air.

The number one movie on 2016, though, Reference is Rogue One, a Star Wars story, which we just covered recently.

So episode 380, so you don't have to go too far back in your feed to find that one.

IMDB gives The Love Witch a 6.3, which the critics of Rotten Tomatoes are 95%.

The audience scores at 61%.

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movie is The Love Witch.

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I like Love Witch.

I just, this is not the time.

Can I, pulling back the curtain for the listeners at home, real Harold Mayery thing, throwing out Better Watch Out, a movie I gave one start.

So, yes, I have for number four...

I have The Love Witch from 2016, directed by Anna Biller.

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her with deadly consequences.

We watched The Love Witch for one of our Valentine's Day episodes, and it was a film that always circulated my, you know, general orbit, I would say, on social media.

It's a really highly screenshotted film because it's very, very pretty.

And I never really sat down to watch it until now.

I don't know if it quite counts as horror, but she does kill a bunch of people, so I'll chalk it up as horror.

This is a Black comedy, and it plays with this idea of almost the same kind of concept of Jennifer's body, where Jennifer goes, I'm not killing people, I'm killing boys, or something like that.

The other films I will talk about, so one of the films at the festival that I've been tracking and waiting for for a very, very, very long time was The Face of Horror, which is Annabella's third movie.

Now, if everyone remembers The Love Witch...

This is Anna Billa's third film.

In The Love Witch, she wrote the script, she made the costume, she did the props, she did the production design, she did everything.

And in the face of horror, she kind of not copies it, but she emulates what she's done before.

But instead of this being a story about a love witch who basically drives men's crazy with her potions, this is a homage to 1960s Technicolor films.

And it literally looks like it could have been made in the sixties in a good way.

And it's, it's, it's a horror.

Which has been at a few festivals and I think it's going to be at LFF.

I don't know if I'm going to get to see it, but I love The Love Witch.

I think it's such a fascinating piece of filmmaking.

And I think, so actually Leo Suter who's in it was in a short film of mine years ago called The Devil's Harmony and he's a great little actor and I think as soon as I saw he was cast I was like oh god that's such a good role for him because he does look like Prince Charming and I love that she's doing this sort of pastiche of Hamahora, which I used to love watching.