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For it's 30th anniversary Nostalgia Critic looks over the twisted classic from Roald Dahl before it's rebooted like everything is. Let's take a look at 1990 dark fantasy comedy The Witches.
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The Witches is a 1990 dark fantasy comedy film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jim Henson and starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher, based on the 1983 book of the same name by Roald Dahl.
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I JUST was thinking of that
It's the witching hour folks also brought to you by "the witches 2020" arriving on h.b.o-max oct.22th 2020
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEAAASSE DO THE MUMMY RETURNS!!!!!!!!!!!
I just watched his review yesterday lol didnt know this movie existed before that
STAMPS !!!😁👍
"You'd never know she was uncomfortable"
Dude, she wore a steel boned corset for her role as Morticia that was so tight it hurt in order to get that petite shape for the role and she slayed, Angelica is an incredible actress
Jennifer Lawrence Critic used as comparison however had to walk around practically naked (why I don’t know since the comic version wore a white outfit) so it’s different kind of uncomfortable.
I heard that at the end of filming the Addam's Family she burned the Morticia costume. Which is pretty badass imho.
At this rate you could tell me she actually got stabbed through her hands for John Wick 3 and I'd buy it.
yeah Angelica was amazing in this and The Addams Family.
@@sarasamaletdin4574 The reason why is they had Rebecca Romajn and wanted a way to have her naked the entire time but still keep a PG-13 rating. There are in-universe explanations, but we all know that's the real reason.
Can we all agree Anjelica Houston goes above and beyond for her roles, she was in constant pain in the Addams Family movies too.
It's Huston, not Houston.
She burned her morticia costume. What do you think she did with the witch costume?
@@Mothman1992 dropped a nuke on it
Yup. Also I’m really hoping Critic reviews The Mummy Returns!?
Sorry, I'm not in an agreeing mood.
FUN FACT: In the book it is implied that Bruno's parents drowned him. A FAMILY BOOK
Wait really? I don’t recall
@@royalpain9281 Yes..granted its been over 20 years since I read the book but I remember it's implied that Bruno was likely drowned by his parents because his mother hated mice.
*A FAMILY NOVEL*
Poor Bruno! I blame the parents for their kid being such a brat.
"oh Orignal pg, never let me go"
HOLY CRAP I just realized something!! So, that first witch who offers him the snake and the chocolate in his treehouse, that was totally set up so that the snake would eat the mouse he'd turn into!
But the Grand High Witch only started rolling out the mouse formula at the hotel, well after. She may have been trying to lure him into a false sense of security
It clearly didn't work though.
@@thebcplayer That's actually a really good point. Maybe it was like she was able to make it in small amounts and still in the testing phases before she could settle on a recipe to mass produce. Just head-canon, though.
@@Perid0tStar Ah, so like a beta version. That does seem common, and it does make sense
Wow I never thought of that, that's some dark stuff right there
Don’t get me wrong; I love Anne Hathaway, but when I think of the “grand high witch”, she’s not exactly the image that comes to mind. Angelica Houston has that strong, sinister elegance to her. Anne Hathaway looks like one of the snobby socialites from The Help.
Edit: ok wtf, didn’t expect this many likes! 😳
Well of course Morticia is more scary
@@redhood7650 and what's up with the lines on her face!? Like my best thought on what that is is that's where the mask connects.
Yeah, Angelica Houston's Grand High Witch has been haunting the nightmares of children for years.
There can only be ONE Grand High Witch.
@KJ Beast i agree
My mind is just constantly going “A Family Picture!” At every creepy scene
During the movie: A Fam- A Famil- A Fa- A F- A-
End credits: Picture
@@archermon373 😂
I blame Pavlov
@@archermon373 The_Witches.exe stopped working
You know, for kids!
Apparently the ending in the book was that he wanted to remain a mouse so he wouldn't outlive his grandmother and be left alone in the world
Normally, I'd find changes from the book to the movie to be disrespectful, but here- isn't that too dark? Like, the good witch does a very good job at blending in anyways and is likable, plus Luke is 9 or something. Why should a 9-year-old know that much about mortality?
Makes perfect sense as a kid would have no concept or life length and would take losing his grandma very hard. Pretty sure plenty of kids who lost their guardians have wish they had died too
@@brettt141 Some of them actually commit suicide.
@@user-yy1rs3df3q they sure do
He's 9, not 5... It'd be great to not know about death, but you do when you're 9.
The part where the little girl was placed in the painting haunted me for years. Forget the nightmare fuel of the witches' transformations, that little scene gave me shivers
Yeah,that was especially disturbing.
For those wondering, the cut ending to the movie was that Luke is stuck as a mouse and he and his grandma make plans to kill off the rest of the witches that weren't at the meeting. Luke also learns that mice can probably live only another 9 years and decides that in the end, himself and Grandma will die together... yikes.
Edit: Okay, could everyone stop saying "Well that's the ending in the book"? I already know that. I read the book too.
Hey its a nice ending. He doesnt want to be raised/ taken in by anyone else
I believe the remake is keeping this ending as WB released footage where you can briefly see Chris Rock voicing a mouse
That’s how the books ends it’s quite bittersweet 🥺
I will admit that this was the darkest of Dahl's childrens book, and while most of the others had a more traditional happy ending, this one did but just not in the way the audience expected. I still maintain it was happy because it is what the characters wanted.
@@dustyrose192 Seems a tad too heavy, even by Dahl's standards.
Her literally unmasking herself to reveal her true witch form is still creepy and disturbing to me after all these years.
Yup
That image of her turning into a mouse is burned into my brain
That's why the remake is going to suck a lot of *BAAAAALLLLLSSS!!!*
That scene scared the hell out of me as a kid.
Yeah really great effects that still hold up
"A remake? When does it release?"
"Yesterday..."
"How is this the first I'm hearing of this?!"
MatPat's Relationship with FNAF in a nutshell
@@Memerroni true tho
All I thought watching this was"I miss practical effects" over and over.
Oh god yes we need them back
I was more thinking of “ A FAMILY PICTURE! “
same.
Practical effects are still being used
Just not as much
Plus in defence of CGI
CGI isnt bad
It just depends on how it's used
I think the problem with CGI is that it tends to age poorly whereas practical effects can hold up for a long time.
What's funny is i never noticed that there were men in drag when I saw this as a kid.
Those are obviously witches... horrible, masculine witches
I never noticed and I watched the movie when I was older.
I never noticed the mice were puppets. They are real mice, right? Am I crazy?
Most wouldn't, they aren't in centre frame and the make up masks them just enough before the scene is too long.
Lol my siblings and I noticed as kids in the 90s..Well technically my eldest brother noticed that some of the witches looked a bit "mannish" and said they were probably men. I didn't believe him so we fought and we paused the tape and went over and over it in slow motion, lol. Back then I figured they were just really ugly, masculine looking women but according to IMDB trivia, they did use men as extras lol.
"But why do I still have the hots for Gadget from Rescue Rangers?"
A question I'm sure several young boys asked themselves at some point in their life.
Gadget was hot. I don't care what anyone thinks.
Rule 34 my freinds
It was the making stuff for me. I can't turn down a woman who can make an airship and solve crimes.
I'm still asking that question almost two decades later.
@@BenDowdy Was?
no actually, that was a pretty realistic take, multiple species of rat/mouse, can survive being stepped on......BY AN ELEPHANT, or even being ran over by a car, for being such tiny little things, they sure are tough.
Something can be said about mice.
@@h193013 Mrs Brisby for example.
So basically mice are the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the rodent world?
@@zachwillas6329 basically
Tardigrades: Pathetic.
"But why do I still have the hots for Gadget from Rescue Rangers?"
I'm pretty sure that's nothing out of ordinary
Who hasn't?! Those are the suspicious people you need to keep an eye on.
Because it was 1990 and every boy with the disney channel did
Mmm......
Totally normal son, keep going
every kid who watched Disney had an odd crush with Gadget, she's a hot number that dresses like a tomboy, because all of those features on a beautiful blonde would spark a similar crush, one shouldnt focus on the species so much.
4:18 i made my family disappear... IM FREEEEEEEEE... Oh wait... Wrong movie... Sorry..
which movie?
@@ellnats Home Alone
@@starcader9997 yip
@@starcader9997 ohhhhh
Nice one
The Witches is a horrific verison of Staurt Little and The Secret of the Nimh. Pretty harmless yet terrifying. Now that I remember, I did watch once in school when I was 8 in class.
Yeah. I agree
Yeah, I watched it in school when I was 9.
Well, that says a lot about how fucked up our childhoods were back then.
Same thing to me. I guess all our elementary teachers wanted us to see it. Out of love or hate?
Same way I first saw Princess Bride. Gotta love teachers who need to kill time.
14:20 I love how the villain confuses "philanthropist" with "philatelist." How many kids got that one?
She also got a little shaken up at the guy asking her about her flight (cause she’s a witch) until she realizes he’s talking about the airplane lmao.
@@XxdextriousxX I've seen this countless times and just got that joke. "Just flew in did you?" "WHAT?"
This movie creeped me out as a kid, not only because of the witches and their stranger danger vibe(i was terrified of strangers after watching it).
But also i think this was the first time i saw Mr Bean actually talking like a normal person. It was so weird to me. xD
I still loved the movie and still do, i hope the remake doesn't suck, but i have low hopes for it.
Normal Mr.bean will always be strange to me
Their purple eyes should be the most terrifying asset of these witches, imo.
@@christophercarey3232 And that was the only feature changed from the original book. They originally had their pupils changing colour and only visible if you look really closely. No mention of purple eyes.
Well, you're right. The new movie sucks.
14:54 Luigi: “Hey Mario. Do you ever wonder where a baby comes from?”
Mario: “Well, ya see, Luigi, when a paisano puts his spaghetti noodle into a mama-mia's ravioli, a little bambino covered in prosciutto comes out about nine months later.”
What has any of that got to do with babies? Mario, I don't understand!
Babies are food obviously
@@imnotabin Mario: “That’s because you’re a DOG, Luigi.”
"But mario, I AM a baby"
The Witches 1990: One of the best movies of it's time
The Witches 2020: Why does this exsist?
just like most remakes
Black people
@@edgarbanuelos6472 i don't get it
Because Hollywood is creatively, morally and financially bankrupt, you know more than usual.
@@xavierarmbruster2628 I think it's a joke on how Luke is now a black kid in the remake and a joke on how with most remakes now have black people playing the main lead but the same character in the original was played by a white person.
I remember reading the book for class in elementary school, and then we watched the movie. Oddly enough, it didn’t traumatize me even though I was a sensitive kid. I really liked how dark the book was though. It might have been one of the first times I saw a book with a sad/bittersweet ending.
The visuals in this movie are extra impressive considering the original kid’s book had very rough, simplistic art that frankly looked like crap.
Yeah but that first reveal of the illustrated GHW honestly terrified me. I had a hard time as an 8yr old kid reading it on from there...which is strange cos before that I had already watched things like Dark Crystal and Neverending story and Tales from the crypt! But that book art illustration upset me deeply
18:50 you know that jim henson realistic mouse puppet banging on a book while talking really is so adorable, that it's almost like a live action adaptation of Hamtaro, can't you just see that kid in that kind of role?
ok spoilers for the book.......
but at the end, he stayed a mouse and he was happy about it because he was probably gonna die at the same time as his grandma because mouse lifespan :) Roald Dahl could be dark
Wtf man...
@@moste5921 They guessed she had like 8 ish years left adn due to Luke's first being a human he would last a bit longer than a normal mouse
But quite beautiful in that dark
@@aztecgodhuzluiospd1033 I agree, its a classic dark ending, where good does triumph but pays a high cost. It was satisfying to me as a child, because the characters got the happy ending they wanted, not the audience.
@@moste5921 Welcome to a time when we weren't pampered.
Original ending: Luke stays a mouse and likes it because he doesn’t want to outlive his grandma. He also gets his entire tail chopped off.
I feel the same way about my Mum to be honest.
which is why dahl hated the films ending
also the other rat kid might have died because his mother didn't want to get rid of there cat
I feel it would have been better with the ending that got removed. It implies a sequel and further adventures. Luke and his grandma using the vast funds they acquired to travel the world eliminating witches while looking for a witch to reverse the spell. Would have been so much better. I think the creator disowned the movie or something like that because of the altered ending
*shivers!!!* That's disturbing.
in germany the movie "The Witches" was called "Hexen hexen." Which means in english "Witches witching."
How redundantly redundant
7:23 "Every Child should be rubbed out"
Chris Hansen, where the hell are you?!
Too busy ripping people off to make a shitty documentary.
@@kittygrimm7301 if you refer to To Catch a Predator, that show is far from being shitty.
Magallanes Agustin No they are talking about an Onision documentary.
"'The Witches' is such a classic. But you know what would make it better?"
"'Voice-over narration?'"
"...Mmm, yes, but-"
"...By Chris Rock?"
"That's it. Well, I think that's a full day's work. Five-martini lunch?"
"Gods, yes. I need something to chase all those bloody marys."
Conversation between Zemekis and his producers
I liked the remake. I thought they did a good retelling.
@@KatieLHall-fy1hw Fair 'nuff. YMMV, and all that.
Standard day for you too huh?
Ahhh early 90’s pg.
When you really needed the parental guidance
I know people need to learn their history about the ratings😂 PG meant something completely different 30 years ago
@@jordanz7516 "Pretty Goddamn wild" xD
The ending of the movie confused me. After all this meanness, all this darkness, audiences couldn't handle Luke staying as a mouse? They were pretty happy together in the book with him as a mouse
Why would it be the opposite? In the book Luke staying as a mouse was an unhappy one cause mice live a short time
@@tonybihn132 it was considered a happy ending because he was happy that he wouldn’t outlive his grandmother and they could spend the rest of their short lives together.
Don Bluth said that children could handle anything if there was a happy ending. Bittersweet isn't the same thing.
it would've been bittersweet and i think they also wanted to show that not all Witches are bad either.
I want Sam and Dean to bust in, and discover that everyone of these witches was a Slytherin, but the dark secret that topples the lead witch is that she was actually a drop out from Cackle's Academy.
She's called the Grand High Witch.
"But why do I have the hots for Gadget?"
Because you still have eyeballs.
That camera angle when the kid starts shrinking into his clothes blew my mind as a kid. I'd never seen anything like that. Still looks amazing even now
To go off of what he said about Angelica being uncomfortable, fact fiend did a video about Adam's family that relates to that. Its about how uncomfortable the Morticia Adam's outfit was for her
Review in a nutshell: They got Morticia to play the head witch. It's a good movie. I remember it so you don't have to.
Saw this film as a little kid, it scared me and I loved it. The scariest was the girl, Erica, kidnapped and trapped in the painting. Still scares me today.
Same. In a movie with so many pants-wetting scenes/FX, it was always the story of the girl in the painting that disturbed me the most, even as a little kid. I know why it disturbs me as an adult, thinking what a tragic and lonely fate that would be for the girl, and how heartbreaking that would be for her family, having to look everyday at what became of her but powerless to save her, but I'm not entirely sure why it scared me back then, other than imagining something like that could actually happen.
It IS scary! Still to this day. The chicken in the remake is scary too though, considering how often chickens were eaten in general. Note how we never hear her fate, just that she laid eggs...
Edit: make whatever comments you want, but in the time period, everyone ate chicken. So there you go
That does, but one that really creeped me out the most was the Tales of the Unexpected. More aimed at adults but my dad had the dvds and had them on. One where an old lady who owns a bed and breakfast drugs people and stuffs them really freaked me out. I think there was also one where a wide murdered her husband and the weapon was a frozen leg of lamb and fed it to the detectives after cooking it so she got away with it. These were aimed more at adults but there's often little distinction between the adult and child stories he wrote.
@@KatieLHall-fy1hw The movie hasn't come out over here yet. Did they tell all five stories from the book, or just that one, or just some? The little girl that turned into a chicken was called Bridgid, I think. They never mention what happened to her, just that she lived on for many years, laying lots of eggs for her parents.
@@RegencyLady-ho2ik Yes, Lamb To The Slaughter. And I think the other one was The Landlady, where she kept putting cyanide in the tea so she could do some human taxidermy once they were dead.
From IMDB:
After a test screening, Roald Dahl angrily expressed to the producers how "appalled" he was at "the vulgarity, the bad taste" and "actual terror" in certain parts of the film. Dahl demanded his name and the title be removed from the film prior to release, but after receiving an apologetic, complimentary letter from Jim Henson, Dahl grudgingly withdrew his threat.
Wait he was male well you learn something everyday
Did... did Dahl not read his own book?
@@NotAGoodUsername360 As someone who read the book a lot as a kid and never saw this movie - It's pretty damn accurate to what I imagined as a kid, if Dahl wanted a more subtle take on this I would imagine it'd be even more creepy then the over the top shit we got, but still, I can't see what he would of imagined instead that wouldn't be shit-your-pants terrifying.
@@CrittersRule247 for real though. I remember this book being so messed up. I haven’t seen all the movie, but what I have seen pretty much nailed it.
I thought he still stood outside the movie theatre, telling people not to see it and to read the book instead. The book's just as scary as the movie.
The scene where she took her faces off was forever ever burned into my brain as a child.
Personally when I was a kid and even as an adult the thought of being trapped in a painting was more disturbing than all the special effects used to make the witches so monstrous. And while they could've animated the child trapped in the painting I think it worked better that each day she'd be in a different position without moving. These witches were sadistic so it makes more sense that they would torment the parents this way. If you got a picture with someone moving around in it then you got proof of the paranormal. Instead you have a distraught parent claiming that the kid in the picture is theirs and everyone thinks they're crazy bringing in a slightly altered picture each day as proof.
You know what I wanna see on Nostalgia Critic? Disney's Tower of Terror movie.
Me too
Wait, the tower of terror has a movie?
@@nicetwin9734 Yes, a cheesy one from 97' I think, but in my opinion better than the haunted mansion movie.
Here's the first few minutes: czcams.com/video/fhr0elgmet8/video.html
I want them to put it on Disney+ so bad.
@@nicetwin9734 It was pretty good. No Twilight Zone refs compared to the original but story still holds up.
It could tie into Walter's Twilight-Tober Zone.
Really not ONE
A FAMILY PICTURE!!!!!
If they went with that, we'd be here for hours.
He also missed the Zuul Motherfucker! Zuul! line in his review of Scooby Doo on Zombie Island.
Isn’t he actively trying not to use the older running jokes?
It's kinda retired after they explored plenty of things by Ralph Bakshi, the inspiration of this gag.
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 Aww! But I loved that joke!
15:07 I certainly was one of them. I still am amazed how well that shot worked. I used to think it was an editing trick but it is so smooth. I even look at Angelica's neck and try to catch out the trickery. It is such a great shot and the way the mask is dropped is seamless. Not even getting caught on her clothes on the way down. So glad you pointed this out, Doug. It is such a great movie. So glad it got reviewed and had me in stitches.
The book has an even more screwed up ending......luke never goes back to human as he knows mice have a short lifespan and he doesn't want to outlive his grandmother....
Of course, in that case, we don't know if his name is Luke or not.
I’ve just realised the mice are named after the Roald Dahl short story William and Mary (where the wife keeps her husbands brain in a tank)
That sounds like something my D&D character would wind up doing...
Dahl's short stories are wonderfully fucked up.
@@professionalhimbo even worse is the Broadway version of Charlie and the chocolate factory Augustus gloop, Verruca salt and violet are dead,Mike TV's mum was abusive
Holy hell! You're right. I remember that one. All the short stories in that collection scarred me forever. Good collection tho
I always forget Dahl had some really dark short stories ( i remember the stories but not that he wrote them :/ ) , lamb to the slaughter is my personal favourite.
“Every child shall be rubbed out.”
Guys, I found one of the creeps behind Cuties!
We make the comments so you don't have to.
@The Phantom Most likely, since that line also sounds like an innuendo
@Marvin G. you mean trump? I mean he did have a habbit of watching kids undress and bragged about how they couldn't do anything.
@@astrowolvez And Biden literally stalks children. He doesn't even try to hide it.
Jesus Christ why does every single presidential candidate like kids?!
@@NEETKitten because 50s?
I must confess to being a little weirded out that both Doug and Brad reviewed the same movie this week. Seems like they should have just done a crossover episode.
I *miss* crossovers.
He doesn’t do cross overs anymore? Damg
7:24"Every child shall be rubbed out"
"buy candy stores and then lace the candy"
that ain't no witch my friend
This movie traumatized me as a child but the one good thing I can say is that the message "don't take candy from strangers" was seared into my brain for life
The scene where the chubby kid turned into a mouse always terrified me as a kid... Seeing it again as as an adult briefly today...yeah! Still freaky as hell!
Uh, his name is bruno.
@@cheyenneeasterling4556 You're right, I should have looked up the name instead of just calling him chubby kid. My apologies
7:43 In a Disney show called The Owl House they have witches and the term is used for both male and female. So I’d say yes the term witch is for men too.
Men have been called witches for centuries but in the book they are exclusively women
The idea of the girl being trapped in the painting always creeped me out as a kid even if you don't see her move around the painting just a still image of her in her painting always unnerved me to the point where she disappeared I always assumed that she died in that painting
Now what I’m wondering is if the remake is going to be a full on faithful adaptation. Because Dahl was so pissed at the original film that he left specific instructions on how to do future adaptations of his work within his will.
In a way you got to admire how far he took his hatred for a film, on the other hand he put it in his will... damn.
You have too much faith in modern Hollywood where pandering and effects take front page while leaving the story in the dust
Spoiler alert!
I watched the 2020 one and I wanna say that they actually nailed the ending for the original book so I guessed they followed the rules.
Too bad he didn't put "make sure the movie doesn't suck" into his will. The original movie may not have done a 100% accurate adaptation, but it was good.
No, no it wasn't
"You know they're becoming less threatening the more they are on screen"
That's probably because they have square feet.
Nice nod to the orginal book but why does that make them less scary
Never seen the movie but I read the book. When he's hiding up in the tree the witch offers him a snake and he stays up there all day.
The story about the little girl in the beginning was always so eerie to me. I loved this movie growing up
"I INSIST THAT YOU TORTURE ME IN ANY WAY YOU SEE FIT!"
"Well that we can do."
"Furries have already written 5 stories about what this does to her"
Only 5? Nah thats an entire subgenre of furry art that goes back to the father of manga himself
I was gonna say "Five stories or made five different websites that all feature her?
The guy who made akira?:)
Tetsuka or whoever who made that animal manga from the 1300s?
I must find these stories... for... reasons.
*That one furry who wrote entire expanded "Witches" universe including creepy kinky stuff appears while menacing music starts playing
"My goals are beyond your understanding"
The witches was my favorite book as a child, still love it.
We also had the audiobook on cassette tape and let me tell you, my mom still shudders at the name of that book since we listened to it in the car like a million times without tiring of it. xD
Let me guess the witch who turned the main character back into a human name was probably Glenda because that's why they would leave her out so she was called Glenda the name of the good witch from The Wizard of Oz
"Every child shall be rubbed out!" The following scene gave me the biggest fit of laughter I've had in months. Thank you critic
@@Ozymondias99 Maybe it's cos I only just woke up half an hour ago, but I actually don't know what he meant. Mind clarifying?
@@Ozymondias99 to me and apparently a lot of people believe it was going to be masturbation or sex joke because the term is slang for masturbation
@@Ozymondias99 Ah. Thanks.
@@inserttext2412 that's what I thought too. And she said it about children which makes it worse.
@@inserttext2412 is that y he couldnt make any kind of joke?
I freakin' loved this movie as a kid! It scared the shit outta me but it was awesome. Angelica Houston is great and she plays my favorite version of Morticia in Addams Family.
Me too. The best Morticia Adams ever. I'm dressing up a her for Halloween and my husband is obviously going to be Gomez
And now they don't need makeup effects on her.
Same here! Even if it scared me, i was still so curious in finishing the whole movie and after finishing it, i really loved it!
Too bad most family movies today play it way too safe now. Which is why i'm glad i grew up in the 90s where family movies weren't scared to add very dark moments.
Super agree! I was Morticia for Halloween 3 years in a row as a kid, and I loved this movie but it scared the bajeezus out of me!
That painting scene with Erica "moving" ruined my life as a child! Every picture I saw contained the trapped soul of a missing person. From Picasso, to Warhol, to the "Mona Lisa,"... ALL HAUNTED! Don't even get me started on "Dogs Playing Poker!" Pure Nightmare Fuel!
The witches was the one time my heart raced as I read a book. The description of the girl being trapped in the painting until she died was horrifying.
His short stories are even worse, some of my personal favourites include a man starving to death in a lift while his wife is on holiday, a homeless man being skinned to remove a priceless tattoo from his back and a lifelong vegetarian becoming fascinated with meat and getting turned into imitation pork. If you want to read these they are called 'The Way up to Heaven', 'Skin' and 'Pig' respectively.
This movie was Jim Henson and Roald Dahl’s last movie they approved and supervised.
Roald Dahl actively petitioned against this movie and reportedly wept when he heard they had changed the ending...
@@yortlebluzzgubbly3871 he approved the film before the ending was changed, he was involved in the beginning until the director changed the script.
@@Markimark151 Well that sucks
Thank God that neither of them were alive to hear that HBO Max is renaking their movie because that would kill them both.
@@yortlebluzzgubbly3871 Too bad Mr. Dahl is not alive to hear that HBO Max is remaking this movie.
The transformation of the Grand High Witch was genuinely traumatizing for me. The practical effects make this movie terrifying
HONK!(Translated means that I legit watched this with my mom last week and seeing Critic make a video a week later is a sign to spend more time with your family.)
The pulling off the faces scene truly scarred me as a child
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I think you nailed it exactly. No matter how perfect the action was there would be a clear cut if they used a different take. The lighting doesn't change either, and the movement flows too perfectly to be a different take. By dropping the mask the only thing they would have to time is when she needs to drop the face.
Trivia Time: In 2004 while visiting Virginia, Miss Huston had gotten word that one of friends daughters was planning to watch the movie with some friends, so she planned to freak out the children. Dressed in purple makeup and Grand High Witch hair, she snuck upon the group and said (with accent) " ‘Thank you for inviting me!’ ... I got them all screaming. It was good. There’s nothing better than making children scream, I have to say.” Going on to say, "One of the roles I hold dearest", commitment to the max, bravo Ms. Hudson.
Who else forgot about this movie and upon seeing this in your recommended had a huge surge of nostalgia from watching this movie over 20 years ago? This movie was terrifying as a kid. I put myself in the kid’s shoes, getting turned into a mouse and killed by ugly witches is pretty bad.
Funny thing is Rahl Dohl was so mad about the ending change that he actually told people not to watch it. Personally I like this ending better because it’s more of a happy ending
It’s good it not to have, happy endings all the time.
the little boy didn't want to outlive his grandmother so that is a happy ending actually.
Yes, this came out the year he died and he still waited outside cinemas and told people to go home and read the book instead.
@@fangirldreamer748 I prefer the happy ending. Otherwise the booklet containing the names of American Witch's would mean very little.
They captured the spirit of his book top to bottom, but a happier ending was an affront to his artistic integrity? His reaction seems a little petty!
Fun fact: in the book, Luke never turns back into a human. That's right, he's stuck as a mouse for the rest of his life. Not only that, but "the rest of his life" is 3 years, since he now has a mouse's lifespan.
That genuinely disturbed me as a kid.
That's how the movie was originally going to end, too- which actually had the author cry tears of joy. 🥺
@@sabrinamiller3671 Was the original ending shot? And if so, is the footage available?
@@Double-R-Nothing It was shot for testing audience, but it's not available.
our teacher read us the book when i was in elemntary school and when she finished she said "well, maybe some of us can create a sequel to see if he comes back human" and THAT was the moment i decided to became a writer. biggest mistake in my life tho
I actually liked that ending
Fun fact: Mice don't feel pain from their tails.
That true they get anxious when they get pick up by the tail
@@zaithehedgewolf4587 Not saying that it's true (I doubt they don't have tail nerves) but tortoises also don't like being picked up by the shell, so that wouldn't need to be related.
So thats why the three blind mice got their tails cut by the wife or was it the jerk of a cat?
True but the thing you need to understand is this... they aren't really mice. Are they?
They still talk, that alone would suggest there anatomy isn't quite right.😉
Bullshit
Honestly a sequel, if done by someone who loved the book and movie, would be really cool. I would love to see them hunting down other witches.
Maybe one of them would be related to the GHW and seeking revenge for them killing her.
This version did give me nightmares for a little while when it 1st came out when I was young. Now I remember why. I also see why other movies since then don't phase me at all. This movie actually desensitized me to scary shit.
I was scared if this when I was 8
"If it's a problem I can't eat, it doesn't exist!"
I may just use that one.
One of the movies that traumatized everyone as a kid
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The remake will have crappy cgi and probably will end up being forgettable I'm calling it
I agree. Blackwashing didn't help and they added a girl turned into a mouse cuz diversity.
@@jakey14344 Oh that's why there's 3 of them.
Not to mention they’re pretty much black washing it to fit the “cultural norms”. Totally forgettable
Awwwww..........just need some cheese to go with all this "whine"
@@kenketrickfreeman3 I love this joke, and agree with the sentiment behind it.
Also, given how chiefly British Roald Dahl was, and everything he wrote reflected it, I'm not a fan of moving the story to America. I think that is even more pointless, though it doesn't derail anything narratively.
@Channel Awesome From 7:52 that sounded like someone’s eyes lasering someone to death. To 9:08 Tables?! Witches natural enemy. You really make me laugh. Lol
Scary as the witches in this movie were to me as a kid, I still always thought having purple eyes would be cool as hell.
I was a kid when I stumbled upon this movie randomly.
Right at the part where the main kid gets turned into a mouse.
oh no
I did the same thing! 🤣
The Witches scared the SHIT out of me back in Elementary School!!
The makeup on the witches genuinely terrified me to look at them as a kid but it was terrifying a lot like the bird guys in Dark Crystal. Terrifying and awesome to look at so you still love the show.
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No wonder 80's and 90's kids are immune to a lot. We had films like this, kids today have easy stuff to watch
I used to watch this with my late dad a lot on HBO in the late dad 90's early 2000's.Brings back good memories
Ya trust me as a 90s kid I got scared shitless so much that current pop culture has to try extra hard since nowadays it legitimately takes a lot to frighten me anymore
Yup I've been desensitized since 1990.
@@DarkKnightofAnime today's idea of scary is whatever intersectional crap college professors are spewing
May come off has the get off my lawn type but i have to agree. The kids today are faberge eggs protected in bubbles by helicopter parents. They wouldn't last a day back in the time period this came out. It's why i will never understand the problems the spoiled brats of today whine about. (born in 84 so i grew up in what i consider the golden age of entertainment. Before it was ruined.)
Can we Millennials agree not to become boomers tho? Kids these days are growing up during a pandemic. Also Cocomelon is terrifying.
When Brad and Doug release reviews for the same movie in the same week
Makes sense since there’s a remake for this movie coming up.
Yup that's cool.
@@marclewis5505 Pretty much
Gotta cater to that algorithm
I like their takes on the same movie. Doug's is the whacky over the top shtick and Brad's at home inviting wry snark and interesting tidbits.
I thought for sure you'd touch upon Dahl's relationship with this movie, his hatred for the happy ending, and the rest of the story.
Just want to say I love your content Nostalgic man, you've always made me laugh throughout the years with your reviews. I unfortunately had a falling out with your videos as 7 years ago a friend of mine who I would watch your videos with had committed suicide. Just watching your videos after that made me feel extremely sad so I decided to avoid them.
Only recently I had started to realize that I can still enjoy doing the things we used to do without feeling sad about having lost my amazing friend. I hope you continue to produce more and more of the amazing content you always produce. God bless!
I'm surprised he didn't say more about the ending, considering how much he hated the ending of the Lorax movie.
The ending of this movie always pissed me off, especially if you compare it to the book's ending. The witch suddenly turning good just to change him back is pretty much the ultimate cop-out to what could've been a very meaningful and unique ending to a children's film. I'll give the new movie credit if they at least try to follow through with the intended message this time.
He Is More of a dr seuss fan than a Roald Dahl, plus the ending of the lorax Is More ambiguos and tragic than the ending of the witches. I mean in one hand you have a seed that could or not save the trees even if that mean that they would be chopped again by another onceleer, or just a mouse with His granny hunting witches for the rest of their lives.
@@motor4X4kombat Well, the way I always looked at the ending of the book is as a pretty clever allegory for terminally ill children. I could be over-reading it, but that's what I thought as a kid. The protagonist knows he won't have a normal human lifespan, and he's okay with it. He then decides to dedicate his life to saving children from the same fate. That's a very mature and bittersweet message to end a children's story with, and the movie's ending just does a complete 180. Instead of ending with a valuable down to earth life lesson, the movie tells us that you shouldn't worry, since every story has a happy ending.
@@Pssybart yeah but those are More personal problems than real life problems, thats why lorax Is More adult than just a save the trees propaganda.
Well, luckily, this new movie follows the book's ending, but adds that while both Luke and his grandma will die, at least they're having fun with the time they still have.
@@johnnyzamora8190 and a disturbing looking Chris Rat... You got it pal, a dark ending as Cats.
One of the many films from the late 80s to early 90s that traumatized children for years to come.
they waterd it down in the ann Hathaway remake
I only read the book as a kid and it's the only time my heart raced while reading. The part where the kid gets trapped in a painting made me so anxious.
Sucks to be you when you saw this
Yeah, that’s what made it great!
Scared the hell out of me I was 6 when I first saw this
NC's story as a kid reminds me of when I first saw Saw.
My friend and I DID have time to see the whole movie. More than enough.
But HE decided the best way to introduce me to this movie, was to show me all the traps first, then during the real sit down to enjoy the whole movie, he told me who the villain was as soon as he appeared on the screen.
One of my favorite school memories was when my 3rd grade teacher (best teacher i have had) would read Roahl Dahl's stories. Not just Charlie and the chocolate factory but great stories like the witches, fantastic mr fox, Georges magical medicine, Hell even The BFG. From those experiences, it made me not only appreciate Dahl's stories but good storytelling from literature in the minds of many authors.
james & the giant peach is getting a live action remake. um the original already was
Is Disney involved with the remake? Because that sounds like current Disney logic.
@@NeoConnor1 most likely. i don't remember
A majority of the film was claymation
Rhinos, they scare little boys.
That's so sad!!! 😔😔😔
Angelica Huston was an amazing Grand High Witch and that mutant rat at the end TERRIFIED me!!
Wait, there's a remake of The Witches this year? This is the first I've heard of it. I loved the original a lot though as a child.
8:00 -ish "compared to the Morticia Addams Makeup/costume this is skinny-dipping in a hot spring"
Very weird fact that you probably don't wanna know: Ernst means severity in Dutch. So it's quite the fitting name in the Dutch translation
I don’t know “witches” worse
I...I don’t have a follow up line for this joke to work
I’ll spot you. “The fact that it took NC so long to get around to it or that they’re making a new one that’s bound to fail!”
How about “I might just split a seam now if I don’t die laughing first” I just have Nightmare Before Christmas on the brain.
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Hahaha! Lol lol lol! You win best comment award on this video so far! XD
To loosley paraphrase Dr. Zoidberg, Your pun was good, and you should feel good!
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Does anyone know where this clip is from?