Are there really witches? Many believe that they really exist since ancient times, but they can masterfully disguise themselves. A meeting with them brings only misfortune and can end tragically. Cinema about witches and sorcerers attracts spectators of different ages. We offer our readers a selection of the most interesting and scary paintings, the main characters of which are evil sorceresses, witches and witches.
"Eastwick Witches"
This picture with a great cast has long been a classic of world cinema and belongs to that rare category of films that can be watched more than once. The main roles in the film were played by Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon.
Sookie, Jane and Alexandra are friends living in the small town of Eastwick. They are united by deep dissatisfaction with life and dreams of an ideal life partner. And he is once declared in the city. Someone is buying a notorious Lennox house, but the name of the buyer is strangely erased from everyone's memory. The stranger alternately meets three friends and introduces himself as Daryl Van Horne. Meeting him awakens their hidden magical possibilities. Soon, they realize that their ideal man is the devil himself, and decide to get rid of him.
The Brothers Grimm
A good witch movie does not have to be scary. Fantasy with elements of the thriller “The Brothers Grimm” tells an alternative story of the famous German collectors of folklore Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
The film takes the viewer to Germany of the XIX century, captured by the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Grimm Brothers are talented crooks playing on the fear of uneducated peasants before supernatural forces. They pretend to be evil hunters and with the help of mechanical devices deftly deceive the audience. But once they faced a manifestation of real evil - in the village, lost on the outskirts of the ancient forest, little girls began to disappear. Residents are sure that this is the work of the witch-queen, living for hundreds of years in a high tower in the thicket of the forest.
"Seventh Son"
Director Sergei Bodrov Sr. is known for many strong films. In 2014, a fantasy film was shot on the screens, shot by our compatriot, but in an unusual mystical genre for him. According to the plot of the picture, the witcher Gregory, a knight of the order fighting evil, imprisons his former lover, the witch queen Malkin, high in the mountains. After many years, she manages to break free. She wants revenge and begins to gather around her army of minions. Gregory understands that he alone can not beat Malkin, and goes in search of his seventh son - only he, according to legend, has great power and the ability to defeat evil.
"Witches of Sugarramurdi"
The Spanish comedy horror movie is a great example of a good movie about witches. He was positively received by critics and received a large number of awards, in particular, he was awarded eight Goya prizes.
According to the plot of the picture, the friends of Antonio and Jose commit a robbery of a pawnshop and try to hide in France. Together with them in the car accidentally happens to be the son of Jose Sergio. They are being chased by two police officers and Jose's ex-wife. Once in the town of Sugarramurdi, the whole company falls into the center of a giant Sabbath of the Baku witches.
The Last Witch Hunter
Fantasy 2015 with Vin Diesel in the lead role. Corder is an evil hunter who gained immortality during a duel in the 13th century with the witch queen. Nowadays, he catches sorcerers and witches who violate the agreement on the use of black magic. When his chronicler dies, Corder begins an investigation and finds out that some forces are trying to revive the witch queen, defeated by him 800 years ago.
Cinema about witches - a list of the scariest paintings
Among the paintings about evil sorceresses and sorcerers there are such frightening ribbons that viewing them causes genuine fear among horror fans.
“The Blair Witch: Coursework from the Other World”
This is a unique film, which went down in the history of cinema as an example of the fact that a low-budget picture can not only become commercially successful, but also give rise to a whole direction in cinema. After the premiere of this film, a craze for filming films in the pseudo-realism genre began. But to achieve such a resounding success as the painting "The Witch of Blair", nobody succeeded.
The plot of horror is extremely simple and unpretentious. Three students decide to make a documentary about the Blair witch. After asking locals about her, they set off in search of the Tomb Rock, the place where the victims of the witch were found. Having lost their way in the forest, they begin to meet strange characters laid out of stones and branches. Students later hear the scary sounds of crying and someone else's footsteps.
"Take me to hell"
In 2010, this picture was recognized as the best horror film. Kristin Brown, an employee at the bank, refuses to renew her home loan to an old gypsy, and she curses her. The frightened girl turns to the medium and finds out that for three days she will be haunted by a witch, and then she will be taken to hell forever. Christine must use the time remaining to get rid of the terrible curse.
Cinema about witches for teens and children
The younger generation of viewers loves movies in the genre of mysticism and fantasy even more than adults. But in recent years, not so many interesting paintings have been produced for children and adolescents.
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Nicolas Cage in this film appears in a rather unusual role - he plays the ancient sorcerer Balthazar, one of the students of the great magician Merlin. In a confrontation with an evil witch, people close to him and a teacher die. Merlin hands his ring to Balthazar and asks for a successor. For centuries, the sorcerer sought a worthy disciple and protected the artifact from the forces of evil, in which the soul of his beloved is contained, holding the evil sorceress. Finally, today he meets the young Dave Statler, and Merlin’s ring selects him as a sorcerer's apprentice.
"The farther into the forest"
Screen version of the musical "Into the Forest". The film received high marks from critics, but the audience was greeted rather coolly, despite the excellent cast.
According to the plot of the picture, the wicked witch cast the curse of childlessness on the baker's wife. But once she needed their help, and she offered a deal. The baker and his wife go to the forest and bring things needed by the sorceress, and she removes the spell of childlessness.
"Snow White and the Hunter"
It is dangerous to be a young and pretty girl when your father is dead and your stepmother is an evil immortal witch. Rovenna, supporting her beauty and youth through the vitality of young girls, decides to kill her stepdaughter Snow White. The magic mirror tells her that the beauty girl surpassed her stepmother. According to the prediction, only the one that is more beautiful than her can kill Rovno. The witch-queen assigns the murder of her stepdaughter to the hunter Eric. But the sorceress could not predict that the beauty of Snow White would affect him, and the hunter would fall in love with the girl.
Domestic tapes about witches and sorcerers
Russian cinema about witches is represented by such films as “The Dark World”, “Night Watch” and “The Dark World: Balance”. Separately, it is worth noting Timur Bekmambetov’s film “Night Watch”. Firstly, this is an example of a very successful film adaptation of a popular literary work. Secondly, thanks to this picture, Bekmambetov became known as an excellent director who removes spectacular blockbusters. Thirdly, in the film "Night Watch" the main role was played by Konstantin Khabensky - one of the best actors in modern Russian cinema.